Dan Wood

The Linotype was the first successful automatic typesetting machine, launching a new printing and information revolution at the end of the 19th Century. But how does a finicky Victorian Age machine with 3000 moving parts fit into the political/artistic/typographic discourse of today? To answer this question, Dan Wood began The Linotype Daily in 2019 to write, cast in hot metal type, print and publish a new letterpress print every day. It became an homage to the hot metal newspaper era and a contemporary reflection on our overloaded Information Age, using the machine that truly started it all.

Dan Wood is an artist and printer living in Providence, Rhode Island. After a brief stint studying history at McGill University, he received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1994 (where he now teaches letterpress part time), and has continued his education in printing ever since, working as an offset press operator in commercial print shops up and down the East Coast. He established DWRI Letterpress in 2002, working collaboratively with artists, designers, business, and nonprofits to produce fine letterpress printing. He has spent much of the last 6 years casting type on Linotype and Ludlow typecasting machines documenting our strange times via The Linotype Daily.

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