{"id":1615,"date":"2011-03-08T09:42:15","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T23:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?p=1615"},"modified":"2011-03-08T09:54:24","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T23:54:24","slug":"1615","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2011\/03\/08\/1615\/","title":{"rendered":"LetterMPress: letterpress app for iPad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"410px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/821242145\/lettermpress-a-virtual-letterpress-on-your-ipad\/widget\/video.html\" width=\"480px\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I imagine a large part of the attraction of letterpress printing is to do with the physical handling of the type, and it being a hands-on process. But the\u00a0argument\u00a0made by designer\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bonadiescreative.com\/\">John Bonadies<\/a> for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bonadiescreative.com\/index.php?\/bc_site\/news_detail\/88\/\">LetterMPress<\/a>, a proposed\u00a0virtual letterpress app iPad, is that it will \u00a0&#8216;give designers, artists, students, lovers of type\u2014anyone\u2014the ability to produce their own authentic letterpress designs and artwork&#8217; when wood type and vintage cuts have become sought after and rare.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if letterpress artists and printers will regard this as encouraging the  preservation and recognition of the aesthetic qualities of letterpress, or as an undermining of the art. But it looks like an app I would find attractive.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/lettermpress-a-beautiful-letterpress-app-for-ipad\/\">Laughing Squid<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I imagine a large part of the attraction of letterpress printing is to do with the physical handling of the type, and it being a hands-on process. But the\u00a0argument\u00a0made by designer\u00a0John Bonadies for\u00a0LetterMPress, a proposed\u00a0virtual letterpress app iPad, is that it will \u00a0&#8216;give designers, artists, students, lovers of type\u2014anyone\u2014the ability to produce their own authentic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[102,13],"tags":[1135,1136,1134],"class_list":["post-1615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-technology","tag-ipad-app","tag-lettermpress","tag-letterpress-printing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/saZhI-1615","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1615"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1625,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions\/1625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}