Skip to product information
1 of 8

* New or Sealed *

Print Punch: Artefacts from the Punch Card Computing Era

Print Punch: Artefacts from the Punch Card Computing Era

Regular price £30.00 GBP
Regular price Sale price £30.00 GBP
Sale Sold out

Print Punch returns to the heyday of the punch card—to a time when you could touch (and punch) data. The aesthetics of this early move towards automation represent a unique moment in our history, when we designed for machines instead of human beings. Rigorous constraints, inherent in punch card technology, unwittingly birthed a coherent design language: rhythm in grids, punched absences and presences, and the patterns in them dancing to their own machine logic. Now obsolete, punch cards were the primary method of data storage and processing from the 1890s until the late 1970s; spanning almost a century of ubiquitous utility, the artefacts of that era sit between these pages to be examined anew.

 

Title: Print Punch: Artefacts from the Punch Card Computing Era
Publisher: Centre Centre
Author: Steven E Jones, Sandra Rendgen, John L Walters.
Graphic Design: -
Format: Hardcover, Laser cut
Size: 30 x 30 cm, 208 pages
ISBN: 9781916412132

Edition: -

 

 

View full details