The press was soon doing work for other groups attracted to Licher's seductively tactile use of hand-set wood and metal type, printed on industrial materials. Licher's visual identity for Savage Republic includes not only a logo but stamps, banknotes, and flags, the visual trappings of a mythic nation in which raw primitivism converges with civilized democracy. [back] © Copyright 1996 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum

Independent Project Press and Savage Republic Stationery, 1986­1992, letterpress Designer: Bruce Licher (b. 1958) Publisher: Independent Project Press, Sedona, Arizona Collection Cooper­Hewitt, National Design Museum, Gift of Independent Project Press