Introduction Preamble PART 1: Historical Perspective: Print, technology and revolutions Chapter 1: Technology as a driver of creativity Avant Garde ideas Futurism in Italy Russian Futurism and Constructivism Chapter 2: Craft and technology The Deutscher Werkbund The Bauhaus, craft and technology A German alternative to the Bauhaus New Typography Chapter 3: The business of graphic design Modernism and America Mature Modernism and integrity New Wave, new technology PART 2: Immaterial Technology in the Physical World Chapter 4: Networking before the internet Low tech, low cost, print opportunities The rise of the western alternative press Photocopying and zines The Whole Earth Catalog Digital technology and the zine Chapter 5: Inevitability of digital technology The computer The Internet Hypertext Paper publishing's crisis of confidence the e-book Websites Chapter 6: The persistence of paper The advantage of permanence The storage culture Digitising print archives Archiving digital material The resilience of paper Chapter 7: Democratising graphic design Letraset Phototypsetting Adaptation of letterforms for technologies Typography and the computer Touchscreen handwriting recognition systems PART 3: The Rehabilitation of Print and Printed Media Chapter 8: Print media adapting to digital tools Newspapers: managing change From fanzine to mainstream The end of print (again) Chapter 9: Cursing and celebrating digital technology The encyclopaedia reinvented The type specimen book The telephone directory New symbiotic relationships Chapter 10: Celebrating the limitations of print Diverse characteristics of print and its use The popular printed novel Books for children Textbooks for students Chapter 11: The allure of making things Skills and craftsmanship Print as a 'democratic multiple' The physical dilemma of books Printed matter as art Print and craft: new creative possibilities The book art object Postscript The reinvention of print References Bibliography Index

A well rounded take on the revival of post-digital craft … For those attempting to track the resurgence of traditional techniques through a landscape dominated by digital production, Jury’s book may prove a useful guide.

Reinventing Print looks at the rise of digital technology and examine the infinite possibilities it offers and the profound cultural and technical influence it has had in all aspects of visual communication. This book then focuses on our current post-digital age, in which typography embraces both the digital and the traditional craft of typography from letterpress to handrawn fonts.