Studio / Cairo, Egypt

Nile Index

Risograph prints and zines cataloguing the signs and type of a river city.

A printmaker holding up a screen-printing frame beside a bright window.

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Illustrative photo, not the studio described.

Demo content

Nile Index is a fictional profile used to demonstrate the layout. A real profile is written with the creator and approved by them before it is published.

Based in: Cairo, Egypt
Discipline: Printmaking, Illustration
Works on Artination: 2

Nile Index is a fictional print studio used as demonstration content. In this example, the studio walks the city with a sketchbook, recording hand-painted shop signs, tram tickets and the lettering on market stalls.

Those drawings become two-colour risograph prints and small-run zines, printed in editions and numbered by hand.

Mission

To archive everyday lettering before it is painted over.

Philosophy

Ordinary type is a city's handwriting. Printing it is a way of reading it slowly.

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