The Office of Printed Ephemera
The Office of Printed Ephemera is a set of in-progress meditations about typography in the transitional space between so-called ‘…old-’ and ‘new-’ media.
I have collected digital texts from sources such as Craigslist ads, blogs, and Twitter posts, whose long-term existence is not necessarily guaranteed nor considered. Each selected text is archived via an array of print-specific technologies including lithography, letterpress and silkscreen.
As I worked with these materials, the conflation of old typographic processes and my daily examination of digital texts created a space in which I began to develop a more refined awareness of just how much the tradition of typography has been disrupted by the digital. In response to this, I articulated my observations via essays and short notes in between long stretches of making prints in the studio.
This work is part craft, part critical writing, and part daydreaming. Mostly, it embodies the formation of a clearer position on how we can better reconcile the tradition of typography with the unyielding progress of technology.
