Low-Tech Fine Art Risography as an Artistic Process: Discovered #2
Text by Daniel Martin Feige, Jo Frenken, Sven Tillack.
The boom in the number of small, independent publishing houses over the past 15 years has led to a revival of risography. Artists and designers from all over the world have installed a “Riso” in their studios to produce small print runs inexpensively and independently of large printing houses. Smaller publishers in Latin America still print exclusively on the Risograph, on grounds of cost. Risography’s simple stencil printing process can print a huge color spectrum and create interesting optical effects through spot colors and coarse screening, and its homemade look has become a recognizable signifier of independent publishing.
In this volume, part of Spector Books’ Discovered Series, German designer Sven Tillack (born 1986) approaches risography as a technical process and a specific aesthetic, considering how factors like color, paper, file preparation, printing and processing contribute to risography’s distinct look and recent revival.
Featured image is reproduced from 'Sven Tillack: Exploriso.'
FORMAT: Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 184 pgs / 32 color / 101 b&w. LIST PRICE: U.S. $35.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $49 ISBN: 9783959053044 PUBLISHER: Spector Books AVAILABLE: 7/13/2021 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Out of stock indefinitely AVAILABILITY: Not available TERRITORY: NA LA AFR ME
Sven Tillack: Exploriso Low-Tech Fine Art Risography as an Artistic Process: Discovered #2
Published by Spector Books. Text by Daniel Martin Feige, Jo Frenken, Sven Tillack.
The boom in the number of small, independent publishing houses over the past 15 years has led to a revival of risography. Artists and designers from all over the world have installed a “Riso” in their studios to produce small print runs inexpensively and independently of large printing houses. Smaller publishers in Latin America still print exclusively on the Risograph, on grounds of cost. Risography’s simple stencil printing process can print a huge color spectrum and create interesting optical effects through spot colors and coarse screening, and its homemade look has become a recognizable signifier of independent publishing.
In this volume, part of Spector Books’ Discovered Series, German designer Sven Tillack (born 1986) approaches risography as a technical process and a specific aesthetic, considering how factors like color, paper, file preparation, printing and processing contribute to risography’s distinct look and recent revival.
