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Article: TYPOGRAPHY: Back to front.
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- Design Week
- Article date:
- April 16, 2009
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In the e-book era, physical manifestations of type may be destined for the museum cabinet, but enthusiasts from across the globe still relish the challenges of crafting type in three dimensions. Anna Richardson gets to grips with what's on offer
When designer Jeanette Abbink describes a bygone world of type - Gutenberg and the centuries that followed - it's all about the tangible. 'Type was something physical,' she says. 'Chunks of metal, objects with heft and dimensionality that you could throw like a rock.'
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