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Dario Carta

Loyalty and silence

How long have you been printing?

I don’t remember the exact year, but probably 2019, sporadically

Describe your first encounter with letterpress

When I was little, in an old printer’s shop in Bergamo.

Where did you learn?

Milan

Who was your most influential teacher?

Kurt Vonnegut, but of course, he wasn’t a printer

What super power would you like to have?

Inivisibility

Do you prefer to work alone or with others?

Alone

What do you most value in your friends?

Loyalty and silence

When do your best ideas occur to you?

I really like Benjamin’s quote: "It is often at the very moment when the artist or poet seems least absorbed in their work that they are, in fact, most deeply immersed in it”

What tool do you use more often than any other?

My Mac

What books are currently on your nightstand?

Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Eric Hobsbawn, Bandits
John Fante, Ask for Dust

If you could study with any printer throughout history, who would it be?

El Lissitzky or William Blake

When and where are you the happiest?

When I listen to music

What is your greatest fear/worry?

Can't think of anything

What do you think is useful about what you make?

I absolutely don’t know

What’s your day job?

I’m a graphic designer and book designer