Risografia: ressurgimento e apropriação por designers como meio de produção para autopublicação

Abstract

This research places risography as the protagonist of an investigation into how the practice of design is influenced by the means of production. A brief historical overview of the stencil printing process of stencil duplication is presented, technological analysis of printing devices, the path that led to the resurgence of Risograph as an alternative means of production, in Brazil and in the world, as an experimental practice adopted by designers in contemporary times, investigating the history of printers, their motivations, their discourses, seeking to understand the social and cultural insertion of these artifacts in the community in which they circulate and their relationship with Art Book Fairs. The methodology of oral history was adopted through interviews with the main printing studios in Brazil to draw an overview of the state of the art of risography in the country.