Hatch Show Print: Letterpress Print and Design Since 1879 Book

Founded in Nashville in 1879, Hatch Show Print is one of America’s oldest working letterpress poster and design shops. Despite the onslaught of technological innovations such as offset printing, graphic software, and laser and digital printers, Hatch Show Print continues to thrive in the twenty-first century. The fidelity of the shop to a hand-carved, hand-set, hand-inked, and hand-cranked ethic and aesthetic preserves a continuous link to the earliest days of commercial printing, while elevating letterpress design and printing to a high art.   Hatch Show Print’s history mirrors the spectrum of American entertainment from the late 1800s to the present. For 140 years, Hatch Show Print has provided performers of all stripes—from circuses, traveling vaudeville shows, and professional wrestlers to Grand Ole Opry stars and touring rock bands—with vibrant posters that combine color, individuality, and bold, tactile design. Hatch Show Print still designs and prints five hundred to six hundred