The Itnerant Printer Project has been fully funded on IndieGoGo. Chris Fritton, plans to travel around travel around the country in 2015 printing on various presses and recording his adventure. Maybe we’ll be a stop on the tour. Either way, this program, following the historic tradition of the tramp printer will be interesting to follow.
The project intends to capture the spirit of the analog revival, send real samples of it into people’s mailboxes, and convey the ethos of the handmade to a broader audience via social media, and as a culmination, result in a coffee table book that features photos all of the prints, printshops, and people from the adventure.
It is also about reviving that sense of adventure in printing, along with the analog sharing of information. It’s about going out into the world, seeking work based on your skill set, making something with your hands, and delivering that object to someone. It’s about an exchange of ideas, of techniques, of information, of style, and of the consummation of all those things: prints.