Stephen Fry and the Guttenberg Press
Part one
‘Fry travels across Europe to find out how Gutenberg kept his development work secret, about the role of avaricious investors and unscrupulous competitors and why Gutenberg’s approach started a cultural revolution.’
Stephen Fry loves design. That’s one of the reasons he’s really cool.
Part two
Part three
Update: The uncredited, pre-set type used for Stephen Fry’s ‘cheat’ was provided by Kitty Maryatt (and her students) of Scripps College in Claremont, California.
Professor Maryatt gave a talk on her Gutenberg project at TypeCon 2010; we spoke briefly after her presentation.
Working with her students, they’d managed to recreate an exact (as possible) replica of an actual Gutenberg Bible page. And this project really showed how detailed (neurotic!) Gutenberg had been. One page kept an entire class busy, the cost of the type alone was in the thousands.
For a bit more about the project, go here.
Found via Aaron Bell
