We now live in what is called 'the late age of print', where it can be seen there has been a return to handmade production methods of print, such as letterpress and screen-printing. An example being 2013 Leeds Print Festival letterpress flyers.
The Slow Movement - a return to slow methods of production and design. It focuses on quality rather and quantity.
The slow food movement questions what fast food stands for culturally. It shows a return to locally sourced produce, learning how to cook your own meals from scratch and is environmentally conscious. It does not rely on co-operations to do things for you, it is about learning new skills.
The slow fashion movement is against fast production of clothing, made for cheap and for profit. It aims to return to independent producers and locally sourced materials. It focuses on humanity rather than profit.
The slow design movement is focused not on the end product or output, but focuses on how your practice relates to issues such as, socio-cultural and environmental.
Print culture and a return to the handmade coveys a sense of humanist politics. For example, The Print Project reclaims old industrial print machinery and puts them to use again as a creative tool. This is in regards to sustainability and comments on how society usually has no regards for maintaining anything.
Richard Lawrence - The Print Milkfloat, is opposed to fast culture. He teaches the general public various print methods, including letterpress, and engages them with such handmade methods. This can be seen to add human or social values to creative practice.
Nicolas Bourriaud's artwork is about using artwork as social interstice. His art is about forming human relationships and interactions, it is fundamentally relational in that it creates networks, engages collaboration and participation. It is a form of relational art.
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