A new book about the history of the screen printing industry has been released. A History of Screen Printing by Guido Lengwiler.
The book chronicles the rapid advancements in the ancient art of stenciling that took place during the late 1800s, and how it turned into screen printing as we know it today. Hundreds of never before seen product photos, machine designs and some of the first art prints done in the 1920s in California are included, as are special chapters on fine art printmaking, ceramics and textile industries.
Wide range of products
The book tells the interconnected stories of how a relatively small group of people — many of them artists, signwriters and entrepreneurs working in the dawn of the American advertising age — helped create entire industries that continue to exist in today’s global marketplace, all using screen printing in the production of an unbelievably wide range of products.
Author
The author, Guido Lengwiler, is a teacher of screen printing at the Schule fuer Gestaltung Bern und Biel, Switzerland (Bern and Biel School of Design). He has more than thirty years of screen printing experience and was elected to the Academy of Screen and Digital Printing Technologies (ASDPT) in 2009 for his work on ‘A History of Screen Printing’.
