History of the printing press
Head’s up for all our UK readers interested in design and print - well print really. I just heard an advert for a tv programme on Monday (14th April) 9pm on BBC4, which has the double whammy of having Stephen Fry present it…
Stephen Fry and the Machine That Made Us
Stephen Fry goes in search of the story behind the inventor of the printing press, Johann Gutenberg, travelling across Europe to find out how Gutenberg kept his development work secret, and how his approach started a cultural revolution.
In order to fully understand the man and his machine, Stephen assembles a team to help him build a copy of Gutenberg’s printing press as well as learning how to make the paper and type so that they can print as Gutenberg once did.
Comment by Craig Killick April 15, 2008 @ 2:32 pm
It was a great program… hope you caught it… Good to see it in the top ten on BBC iPlayer… http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/b009wynj.shtml?src=ip_mp
Comment by Jacqui Sanwell April 15, 2008 @ 9:04 pm
Taped it and watched it this evening.
How wonderful to see such passion.
Enhanced by Fry’s narration such as “elegant and harmonious look” and “justified lines without trailing white spaces”.
Marvelous when you think of the effort today and compounded by the efforts of the past to produce something that we all take for granted.
Thanks for the heads up, left me smiling.