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FW: The Economist | Mike Parker: A passion for type
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Dunkel)
Tue Mar 18 09:56:34 2014
From: "Brian Dunkel" <bedunkel@ecorporatecollege.com>
To: <apo-printshop@mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 09:56:23 -0400
Nice obituary from The Economist magazine for a fellow pusher of type.
YiLFS
Brian
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Mike Parker
A passion for type
Mike Parker, typographer, died on February 23rd, aged 84
WHAT is the basis of civilisation? Some would say wheat; others, the taming
of fire. Mike Parker would say, type. That little 15th-century typefounder's
mould, made of brass, ready to take the hot lead that would cool into the
letter-shape punched in the matrix, had helped people to read, and so had
changed the way they thought and acted. The Bible printed by Gutenberg
around 1455, in that wonderful blackletter whose spacing of exquisitely
planed type had never been bettered, had broken the hold of the church and
opened the way to modern commerce. What could be more world-changing than
that?
See full article -
http://www.economist.com/news/obituary/21598621-mike-parker-typographer-died
-february-23rd-aged-84-mike-parker?frsc=dg%7Ca
