Matt Holmes

Co-Presenter with Erin Moore and Maddy Underwood

Hear from three Print Futures all-stars LIVE. Rapid-fire presentations from emerging printers Matt Holmes, Erin Moore, and Maddy Underwood will get you excited about the future of letterpress. Pushing the boundaries of letterpress tools, text, and image, these new voices in letterpress not only move the craft forward, they give us an inspiring glimpse of where the field of letterpress printing could go in their capable hands. Let’s give them all a warm Wayzgoose welcome!

Print Futures provides a new, unique platform for upward mobility in the letterpress community. To date, Print Futures has featured over 20 emerging artists and educators, whose virtual lightning talks and ensuing discussions build bridges, encourage, and support the next generation of printers. Print Futures is co-produced semi-annually by Partners in Print (PiP) and Letterpress Educators of Art & Design (LEAD) .

Matt Holmes

Matt Holmes is a multidisciplinary designer-practitioner-researcher from Plymouth, England. He graduated in 2021 with an MA in Design having studied the intersection of digital technologies and heritage craft. Today he is a PhD candidate at the University of Plymouth researching how digital technologies can be used to protect and preserve heritage crafts, while also exploring how this augmentation of tradition creates its own working practices.

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