Thesis
Cheap copies!: The OBSOLETE! Press guide to DIY hectography, mimeography and spirit duplication
University of Iowa
Master of Fine Arts (MFA), University of Iowa
Spring 2021
DOI: 10.17077/etd.005827
Abstract
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Cheap copies!: The OBSOLETE! Press guide to DIY hectography, mimeography and spirit duplication
- Creators
- Rich Dana
- Contributors
- Julia Leonard (Advisor)Matt Brown (Committee Member)Emily Martin (Committee Member)Lindsay Mattock (Committee Member)Kembrew McLeod (Committee Member)
- Resource Type
- Thesis
- Degree Awarded
- Master of Fine Arts (MFA), University of Iowa
- Degree in
- Book Arts
- Date degree season
- Spring 2021
- DOI
- 10.17077/etd.005827
- Publisher
- University of Iowa
- Number of pages
- viii, 58, 85 pages
- Copyright
- Copyright 2021 Rich Dana
- Comment
- Appendix pagination reads two pages per page--85 pages (ie. 43 pages)
- Language
- English
- Description illustrations
- illustrations (some color)
- Description bibliographic
- Includes bibliographical references (page 57).
- Public Abstract (ETD)
This book is a DIY guide to hecto, ditto and mimeo – the low/no cost printing techniques used by wannabe publishers, low-brow artists, radicals, cranks and crackpots a century before the invention of photocopiers and the world wide web. It includes technical info and step-by-step instructions on how YOU can recreate these nearly-forgotten techniques!
The hectograph, the spirit duplicator and the mimeograph were three of the most successful inventions developed in response to the industrial revolution’s need for cheap and quick copies of documents. Considered obsolete for commercial applications, these technologies “went feral” and became tools for empowerment of outsider publishers around the globe.
In addition to a how-to manual, Cheap Copies! is a meditation on the fallacy of obsolescence and the search for a new analogia.
This document includes the text of the book manuscript and a pdf of the book design, included as an appendix.
- Academic Unit
- Center for the Book
- Record Identifier
- 9984097276702771
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