Typophile

"Farewell etaoin shrdlu"

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Found this link on Design observer. Not that I can attend, being in London, but I'd imagine that some of you will be interested. Bit late notice, I know.

'Rare screening of "Farewell etaoin shrdlu" a documentary on the last night of hot metal typesetting at the New York Times'

http://tdc.org/events/2007events/2007tdcsalonschlesinger.html

It's such a great albeit chilling film of changing technologies and their related, yet required, craftsmanship.

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