Tuesday, May 25, 2010

The National Print Museum






I visited the National Print Museum in Beggars Bush today. It was fascinating to see all the different types of printing presses from the Gutenberg press from the 1800s all the way through to the Linotype and Intertype presses. Also it was interesting to see the typography used at this time, and to handle fonts familiar to myself such as 'Bodoni' and 'Impact' with each individual character cast in metal.

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