In the future, digital devices like the iPad could wipe out traditional print technology like letterpress. Now, designer John Bonadies hopes to preserve the art of letterpress with a $15,000 Kickstarter project–bringing letterpress tools to the iPad.

Here’s more about the project: “much of the letterpress’s traditional technology was sold for scrap metal and replaced with computers over the last 30 years. Wood type was burned, thrown in a landfill, or divided up as knick-knacks in antique and craft shops. The destruction of manual presses and thousands of type collections has made the tools of letterpress a scarce resource these days … Our goal is to give designers, artists, students, lovers of type—anyone—the ability to produce their own authentic letterpress designs and artwork.”

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