[completed] São Paulo city Graphic Memory: development of a database on the beginnings of letterpress printing in São Paulo
Keywords: typography, print culture, visual cultureBegin: 2014 | End: 2018
Abstract
This is an initiative related to the research project “São Paulo city Graphic Memory: typography in São Paulo in the nineteenth and early twentieth century”, supported by a CNPq PQ Level 2 grant. The object of study is the practice of printing with movable type and the typefaces available for typesetting and printing in São Paulo between the nineteenth and early twentieth century. The main expected outcome is the development of a new version for the website ‘Tipografia Paulistana’, through which the database will be made available to the public.
The main challenge faced by this project is to improve the processes of data collection, processing and dissemination for research on historical aspects of visual language, in particular the recording, organization and access of data about printing with movable type. The solution given to this problem should point out ways to optimize organizational processes and visualization techniques related to mapping historical georeferenced data, and the visualization of ‘directories’ or collections of types own by printers of the past, which should be of interest for other researchers who deal with the history of typography and similar themes.
http://labvisual.fau.usp.br/tipografiapaulistana/
Funding agency
CNPq (Edital Universal)Researchers
Catherine Dixon (UAL/CSM, UK)Daniela Kutschat Hanns
Deu Rim Choi
Heloísa Barbosa de Oliveira
Isabella Ribeiro Aragão (UFPE)
Leandro Manuel Reis Velloso
Marcella Monaco Jyo
Olivia Lapa Cavallari
Paola Ramos Fernandes
Priscila Lena Farias (Responsible)
Roberta Akegawa Cunha
