Officina Typo
Year
2020
Specifications
Size 50 x 70 cm
Letterpress printed in two colours onto 200 g Favini Sirio Tree Free from hand-typeset original wood and metal typefaces
Limited edition: 25 copies
Design and printing
Ebe Babini
Silvano Babini
Gina Paolini
Price
Euro 90,00
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As “birthday gift” for the first 25 years (1995–2020), Tipoteca Italiana asked 25 designers and printers, from all over the world, to design and print a poster. The project 25×25. Tipoteca 25 was conceived in this way. Maximum freedom of creation was left, except for a few rules: the size (50 × 70 cm), the colors (maximum 4 colors), and the printing technique (letterpress). Over half of the posters were made directly in the printshops of the invited designers; instead, those who had no way of printing the poster in their studio were sent a Type-Kit, consisting of the digital scan of twenty typefaces from the Tipoteca archive with which they could design the posters. The print would have been performed by the Tipoteca Stamperia on the basis of the indications of colors, fonts, and layout established by each graphic designer. And so it was.
Officina Typo (Modena) is a craft workshop, created by Gina Paolini, Ebe and Silvano Babini. The printshop preserves and enhances the letterpress printing with hand presses and movable type. Old machines for a modern design: printmaking and experimentation, artist books and limited editions, graphics, woodcut and intaglio.
