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If we go deeper in design history we can notice that many of the styles, techniques and visual languages we see today are inspired by avant-garde art movements. They were so important for breaking rules, exploration, imagination, that they are still reference for designers from all over the world. That’s what we are going to [...]

Previously we saw the “Part I: Handwritten type” here. Now, the last part of this article talks about what happened when printed type turned up, making a big historical change, discarding the need of scribes. Imagine yourself as a scribe at that time see your life work being substituted by machines.

In a former post we talked about history of symbols. Now, in order to proceed our historical article series, we’re going to learn more about handwritten type and its evolution. From handwriting to printed type. It’s interesting to think how hard was it to write a book in days of old.