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THOSE WERE THE DAYS

Posted by Mika Shephard

… OR WERE THEY!?

When we think of setting type we tend to think of staring at our mac screens, blurring our eyes, a lot of alt + left/right arrow keys, a few clicks of the return button and some backspaces or edit undos– and this is when it’s done quickly! It can take a long time to get type looking just right… but imagine how long it will have taken these guys to do it all by hand. This was only 30-40 years ago… imagine what typesetting might involve 30-40 years from now.

Read more here.

Thanks to UCLan student Stuart Mitchell (currently on placement at The Chase) for this link.

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Posted on Monday, November 1st, 2010 at 12:17 pm by Mika Shephard. Filed under 1ST YEAR DESIGN, 2ND YEAR DESIGN, 3RD YEAR DESIGN, TYPOGRAPHY. Follow responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

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