The Bold Type
MEN 'S FOLIO Singapore|August 2022
As the craft of letterpress printing hits its bicentennial birthday in Singapore (it dates back itself to 1040AD), Yao Yu, an educator and founder of Typesettingsg, seeks to preserve its roots.
Bryan Goh
The Bold Type

Hello Yao Yu, can you perhaps remember the first time you encountered the art of letterpress? My first encounter with letterpress printing was during my design education year in SIM-RMIT Visual Communication where I was doing some research for a craftsmanship module. I started researching this form of printing online and subsequently visited a few of the contemporary letterpress shops in Singapore. That’s when contemporary letterpress printing arrived in Singapore with a tactile debossing touch, thick paper stock, and very interesting story background. Of course, this new form was just a recent trend of 20 odd years when its traditional form phased out. The deboss finishing was marketed to the younger audience starting with the wedding industry in the US before spreading worldwide.

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