After being ill for over a week and missing uni what a great day to return with a lecture including two of my greatest loves in life, Typography and Stephen Fry with a metal type workshop as an added bonus.
Press play to view a little preview of the film we watched in our lecture, The machine that made us.
In the film Fry goes on a journey to discover the first printing press invented by Gutenberg by traveling to the places where Gutenberg lived and worked. Through his discoveries, with the help of a specialist team, he built his very own Gutenberg press (below) with all the metal type needed to recreate one page from the Gutenberg bible.
I do however have quite the fondness for the wooden type blocks, the texture they create is one of a kind. The look and feel of the blocks themselves interest me from their rustic and rough surfaces. I have always found wood an inspiring medium to view with the layers of grain, textures and printed typography. The metal type creates a much more crisp and clean printed shape.
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