A selection of the most interesting graphic works made by postgraduate students from the Faculty of Fine Arts has been compiled under the title “The Print Factory” since the establishment of the research group.
The objective of this Estampa Contemporánea Bureau is to document how the main line of the dx5 research group, focused on fusion of new technologies and traditional graphic techniques, has materialised into the transfer of these results through their application in teaching.
This means that students in contact with the dx5 teaching and research team acquire methodologies as well as technical and creative strategies that are differentiating with respect to other Spanish universities and graphic art teaching centres, and supported by participation in specialised competitions.

Concepts:
– New didactic methodologies
– Application of scientific-research methodology to university teaching.
– Cataloguing and dissemination of cross-border contemporary graphic works (art and technology) – Redefinition of the research-teaching binomial.

Objective:
The aim of the project is to compile and exhibit the results obtained both at technical and creative level, as a result of the application of research to teaching graphics at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Vigo. Hence “The Print Factory” was born as a compilation under the spirit of serving as a platform for dissemination and empowerment for all these graphic works projects, at the time limited exclusively to the small scope of the graphics studio at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Pontevedra.
This Print Factory research project, a young dissemination and educational innovation project in the field of contemporary graphics, has a profound impact on the value of social communication and on publicity of the research and didactic work of the dx5 group.
Publishing the best prints from this archive in thematic publications facilitates international export and dissemination of this work. Feedback received from the brightest future students will perpetuate this three-year trend of simultaneously documenting this activity.
To date, and as a direct result of this project, two “Print Factory” publications have seen daylight: The Print Factory I and The Print Factory II. The space of the book, centred on the artist’s book.