Category Archives: Printing History

I am type

August 6, 2009 – 5:58 pm

Of my earliest ancestry neither history nor relics remain. The wedge-shaped symbols impressed in plastic clay by Babylonian builders in the dim past foreshadowed me: from them, on through the hieroglyphs of the ancient Egyptians, down to the beautiful manuscript letters of the mediaeval scribes, I was in the making.
With the golden vision of the [...]

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Sound archive: printing history

July 21, 2009 – 10:29 pm

The  Department of Typography & Graphic Communication at the University of Reading has established a depository for sound recordings relating to printing history. The majority are interviews with trade and professional people involved with the printing industry and allied trades, design and education. The focus is broad but one aim is to document the transition [...]

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