Pressing On: The Letterpress Film with Guest Speaker Erin Beckloff

York College’s AIGA Student Group and the Graphic Design program at York College of Pennsylvania invite you to a screening of Pressing On: The Letterpress Film.

Thursday, January 31, 2019
5:00 – 6:00 pm – Reception
6:00 – 8:30 pm – Screening and Q&A

Weinstock Lecture Hall, York College of Pennsylvania

Erin Beckloff, letterpress printer, filmmaker, and graphic design educator presents Pressing On: The Letterpress Film. The film is a documentary about the survival of letterpress printing featuring remarkable printers who are preserving the history and making the craft thrive. The modern world was born on a printing press. Once essential to communication, the 500-year-old process is now in danger of being lost as its caretaker’s age. From self-proclaimed basement hoarders to the famed Hatch Show Print, Pressing On: The Letterpress Film explores the question: why has letterpress survived in a digital age?

Q&A with Erin Beckloff will follow the film.

Official Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD0lRVEw2zg
Pressing On: The Letterpress Film
http://www.letterpressfilm.com/