The lost legacy of letterpress | Yao Yu Sun | TEDxSingapore
In this talk, Yao Yu invites us to rediscover the beauty of slowness, of precision, of ink meeting paper. Yao Yu stumbled into the world of letterpress through dusty warehouses and aging machines.These relics speak of a time when words were pressed into permanence, not just pixels. More than nostalgia, his work is a reminder: that even in an age of digital speed, there is something worth saving in the weight of type, the press of history, and the stories still imprinted in print. Yao Yu is a traditional letterpress educator and founding member of the International Association of Printing Museums (IAPM), he is the quiet force behind TYPESETTINGSG, an initiative devoted to reviving the endangered craft of movable type printing in Singapore. Through salvaged printing blocks, forgotten typefaces, and hand-cranked machines, Yao Yu documents and preserves the tactile history of a medium that once shaped how we read, think, and remember. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
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