You Can Thank Johann Gutenberg For This Post
One of our SXSW field trips included a visit to the exhibition “Technologies of Writing” at the Ransom Center Galleries on the University of Texas campus.
Never before had we seen our worlds of words and design collide so vividly. The history of mankind’s greatest invention is organized in such a way that ancient Sumerian tablets are grouped with woodblock type and a 1970 IBM Selectric–making perfect connections between centuries of communication.
Today, as we create this entry using Movable Type, we envision ourselves as modern day typesetters, using new tools to quickly format and reproduce our thoughts.
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