{"id":3799,"date":"2009-09-14T22:49:04","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T05:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=3799"},"modified":"2009-09-10T23:09:14","modified_gmt":"2009-09-11T06:09:14","slug":"baskerville-the-animated-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/3799","title":{"rendered":"Baskerville: The Animated Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"302\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Auj6qqfoKGY&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Auj6qqfoKGY&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" width=\"400\" height=\"302\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/new.myfonts.com\/person\/John_Baskerville\/\" target=\"_blank\">John Baskerville (1706-1775)<\/a> was an incredible type designer<\/a>. His work holds up very well today. He reinvented printing and his ink was beyond compare. And, unfortunately, he was hated by his contemporaries. His type was seen to &#8216;hurt the eye&#8217; and would be &#8216;responsible for blinding the nation.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Baskerville the Animated Movie celebrates John Baskerville, the man, the typeface and his future legacy.&#8217; <\/p>\n<p>For more about this short film, drop by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baskervilleproject.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Baskerville Project website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more detail about John Baskerville and other famous type luminaries, snag a copy of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/1464\">Type: The Secret History of Letters<\/a><\/em> and start reading.<\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"Baskerville: The Animated Movie\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/3799\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Baskerville (1706-1775) was an incredible type designer. His work holds up very well today. He reinvented printing and his ink was beyond compare. And, unfortunately, he was hated by his contemporaries. His type was seen to &#8216;hurt the eye&#8217; and would be &#8216;responsible for blinding the nation.&#8217; &#8216;Baskerville the Animated Movie celebrates John Baskerville, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,54,127,120],"tags":[121,126,67,122],"class_list":["post-3799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finds","category-design-history","category-fonts","category-typography","tag-design","tag-education","tag-fonts","tag-typography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3799"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3811,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3799\/revisions\/3811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}