I AM TYPE posters
Set of 8 posters / 11x17. Please use a typographic system per poster / 8 total It is up to you what type of font, color and how the essay will be broken up on the posters. The entire essay needs to spread across the 8 posters. The posters need to look like a set despite all the different systems used and standardized colors and font family will help this. Have all 8 ready to view in one pdf for Friday's class. Here is your essay.
I am type! Of
my earliest ancestry neither history nor relics remain. The wedge-shaped
symbols impressed in plastic clay by Babylonian builders in the dim
past, foreshadowed me; from them, on through the hieroglyph of the
ancient Egyptians, down to the beautiful manuscript letters of
the medieval scribes, I was in the making. With the golden vision of the
ingenious Gutenberg, who first applied the
principle of casting me in metal, the profound art of printing with movable
types was born to countless thousands. I bring into the light of day the
precious stores of knowledge and wisdom long hidden in the grave
of ignorance.
I coin for you the enchanting tale, the philosopher's
moralizing, and the poet's phantasies; I enable you to exchange the irksome
hours that come, at times, to everyone, for sweet and happy hours with
books-golden urns filled with all the manna of the past. In books I present to
you a portion of the eternal mind caught in its progress through the world,
stamped in an instant, and preserved for eternity. Through me, Socrates
and Plato, Chaucer and the Bards, become your faithful friends whoever
surround and minister to you. I am the leaden army that conquers the
world. Cold, rigid, and implacable I may be, yet the first impress of
my face brought the divine world. I
am type!
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