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Linotype: The Film
Topic: Arts 10:58 am EST, Nov 13, 2010

"Linotype: The Film" is a documentary about Ottmar Mergenthaler's amazing Linotype typecasting machine and the people who own and love these machines today.

See also:

The txtBOMBER is a one-hand-guerilla-tool - a machine not much bigger than a pressing iron - that generates political statements on the fly and immediately prints them on any flat surface.

From the archives:

Typography is not simply a frou-frou debate over aesthetics orchestrated by a hidden coterie of graphic-design nerds. You need only imagine a STOP sign that utilizes the heavy-metal typefaces favoured by bands Dokken or Krokus to realize that clear, clean and direct typography can save lives, or at the very least prevent drivers from prolonged bouts of confused squinting.

From the 2008 presidential campaign:

Consider typography to be the window into the soul of the candidate's campaign. The depth, the breadth, the good, the bad and the ugly is all there for us to witness and assess in one clear and telegraphic manner.

Also, recall:

Typography from the 1980s!

If you have time:

This video wasn't long enough, so we made it double-spaced.

Linotype: The Film



 
 
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