Introduction Preamble PART 1: Historical Perspective: Print, technology and revolutions Chapter 1: Technology as a driver of creativity Avant Garde ideas Futurism in Italy Russian Futurism and Constructivism Chapter 2: Craft and technology The Deutscher Werkbund The Bauhaus, craft and technology A German alternative to the Bauhaus New Typography Chapter 3: The business of graphic design Modernism and America Mature Modernism and integrity New Wave, new technology PART 2: Immaterial Technology in the Physical World Chapter 4: Networking before the internet Low tech, low cost, print opportunities The rise of the western alternative press Photocopying and zines The Whole Earth Catalog Digital technology and the zine Chapter 5: Inevitability of digital technology The computer The Internet Hypertext Paper publishing's crisis of confidence the e-book Websites Chapter 6: The persistence of paper The advantage of permanence The storage culture Digitising print archives Archiving digital material The resilience of paper Chapter 7: Democratising graphic design Letraset Phototypsetting Adaptation of letterforms for technologies Typography and the computer Touchscreen handwriting recognition systems PART 3: The Rehabilitation of Print and Printed Media Chapter 8: Print media adapting to digital tools Newspapers: managing change From fanzine to mainstream The end of print (again) Chapter 9: Cursing and celebrating digital technology The encyclopaedia reinvented The type specimen book The telephone directory New symbiotic relationships Chapter 10: Celebrating the limitations of print Diverse characteristics of print and its use The popular printed novel Books for children Textbooks for students Chapter 11: The allure of making things Skills and craftsmanship Print as a 'democratic multiple' The physical dilemma of books Printed matter as art Print and craft: new creative possibilities The book art object Postscript The reinvention of print References Bibliography Index.