The Manifesto of Aesthetic Intervention explores how different production methods communicate to viewers, and how they are valued in the art market. The text is a call for critical engagement with the visual environment, and the design calls for this sort of visual and material analysis.
The design process flowed back and forth between analog and digital processes, each with certain expectations. Wood type was letterpress printed, scanned and digitized, made into photopolymer plates and then letterpress printed again along with scans of spray painted stenciled lettering and random dripping spray marks. The brick wall texture is printed from wooden letterpress furniture, conflating the gritty textures fetishized in street art with the wood grain that is equally important to the value of printmaking and letterpress.
