Printeresting’s Ghost Letterpress / Collaboration / Book
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In 2016, the founders of the highly acclaimed, www.printeresting.org, Amze Emmons, R.L. Tillman, and Jason Urban, announced that their beloved blog-based website of seven years would be closing down. “Printeresting is not ending, it is evolving,” they explained, citing a new emphasis on research, community, and collaboration, and a desire to “slow down, work carefully on our ideas, and present those ideas in a deliberate way.” The first of these, titled Ghost, had three components: real-world events, a publication, and a website that evolved over the term of the project.
Tricia Treacy and I designed and produced the printed publication, complete with digitally printed pages that were hand-bound as signatures and covered with an original letterpress print. Additional printed ephemera were tipped into the back cover. The content was collected and curated by Emmons, Tillman and Urban from their extensive network of artists, designers, curators, and critics, including independent and non-profit institutions.
Our goal was to allow the design structure to shift throughout the book, reflecting the myriad types of content. The final book was produced in an edition of 100 hand-bound copies and a digital version was made available online through a print-on-demand service.
