About PRIXEL

PRIXEL is a modular movable type printmaking system designed with play principles in mind. Modular thinking is everywhere we look. House plans, faces, or even the words you’re reading right now—they’re all just simple shapes, repeated. In the digital realm, everything is further boiled down to tiny, colorful squares, or pixels. PRIXEL, short for PRInting piXELS, takes this modular concept and applies it to the physical world through printmaking. With the playful spirit of toy printing presses as inspiration, PRIXEL synthesizes all these art forms into a kind of construction-printing process, allowing anyone to “draw” with geometric type. After all, drawing is a way of seeing and understanding something by deconstructing it. PRIXEL can be used to print just about anything—cards, posters, or temporary tattoos. Users can recreate things from everyday life or make something completely abstract. By breaking things down into modular parts, we discover the hidden patterns and interconnectedness that exists in the world around us.Read their story