Halfwood Printing press

Halfwood Printing press
by Bill Ritchie

• Awarded April 15, 2013
• CLIENT: Halfwood Press Division of Emeralda Works, a USA proprietorship
• 17.674

With twenty years in university teaching fine art printmaking and twenty in new art technologies, Bill Ritchie designs a beautiful, functional printing presses apposite to his art, craft and teaching goals. As printmaking is the ancestor of technologies of communication, to add digital communication in his press design came naturally by fitting USB flash memory SME and thereby creating the world's first smart art instrument in his small, beautiful Halfwood printing press.