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BookLogging, 1992, LewisBlackwell.
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* BoulderPublicLibrary - main - 686.224
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= some notes =
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* Mechanical typesetting began, more or less, in 1886.
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* When this book was written, screen display still meant television. At least for the author.
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* 1890s - complaints about piracy as the "great sin of all manufacturing communities".
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* Abstracted bicycle forms in commercial art looked surprisingly modern by 1895.
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* AkzidenzGrotesque -> the [Helvetica] family.
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* The ideology of type, as with design in general, is frequently a bit weird. This probably generalizes in fact to anything sufficiently abstract: Aesthetic characteristics which don't have much in the way of intrinsic significance or content become sinks, at least in the narratives of their creators or appropriators, for all kinds of ideas about meaning and purpose. What WilliamMorris ''says'' about the ideology of his craft migth in fact have little obvious bearing on the physical & visual properties of his work. In fact, it might be contradicted by the actual reception of some of them...
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* 1961 - the Selectric "golfball" typewriter.
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* Letraset, 1960s.
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