Print Press Buttons
With the college moving next year to a brand new building, a "Super Campus", our Creative Processes brief required us to look at this transition, and to respond to it in an artistic way.
I struggled with this one initially, but eventually homed in on our current building's history. The building was formerly the "College of Building and Printing" which was opened in the 1960s. It now stands as a Listed building and this listing includes several of the original print presses.
I chose to look at these print presses as a possible subject as two of them are not being taken over to the new building. They could be migrated artistically!
The presses had several buttons which started various processes or performed actions within the press. These buttons were labelled with symbols, which to the untrained eye were a little like hieroglyphics.
Some modified pictures below...
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