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On May 11, 1854, Ottmar Mergenthaler was born in Württemberg, Germany. Mergenthaler, a watch maker by trade, came to the United States in 1872. In 1885, he invented the Linotype Machine and revolutionized the printing industry. The Linotype eliminated the tedious need of hand setting type, especially for publication work like newspapers and books. Using a keyboard, the operator would tell the machine to send a matrix (a mold for each letter) to the assembly area. The Linotype would pump molten lead into the matrices, casting a line of type. The Linotype was in common use in newspaper offices until the mid-1970s when offset printing became the norm.
On display at the Sacramento History Museum’s print shop exhibit is a Model 8 Linotype, serial number 16618. This Linotype was made in 1913. While our Linotype is fully operational, we lack the electrical power and ventilation to use it. Want to learn more about our Linotype and how it functioned? We have an extensive video of Howard explaining the operations on our YouTube channel.
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Typography Tuesday
Specimen of Type Faces Monotype Linotype was produced ca. 1930 to display the range of typefaces used at the American Typesetting Corporation of Chicago, "the largest of its kind in the world," established in 1919. The plant operated 24 hours a day, offering day and night services. Their Monotype Department boasted ten keyboards and twelve casters, and their Linotype Department operated ten machines. The typefaces shown here are Goudy Old Style, Cloister Text (a Gothic face, not the Roman Cloister designed by Benton), Typewriter, Monotype Accents, and Copperplate Gothic.
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#Typography Tuesday#typetuesday#monotype#linotype#American Typesetting Corporatioin#Goudy Old Style#Copperplate Gothic#Cloister#Typewriter font#type setting#type composition#20th century type
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Artwork made from Linotype slugs..... St Louis City Museum
#photographers on tumblr#original photography#b&w photography#b&w#macrophotography#linotype#art#st louis
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Fuuuuuck thank you so much for introducing me to this hobby @youjustwaitsunshine! I made my first linotype with this craft knife and a slightly too expensive eraser :P
It's inspired by the race without trace t-shirt! I didn't expect it to be this clean though...
Needless to say, I will be printing this everywhere lol
More to come...
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Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu (1978)
The last day of hot metal typesetting at the New York Times.
Well worth a watch. The Linotype machine was a genuine, mechanical wonder.
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linoprint finals for college
white cartridge / watercolour paper / procion dyed paper
#art#linoprint#reduction print#printing#printmaking#lino printing#linotype#linocut#linocarving#lino#nature#world#birds#fish
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#print#linotype#ink#stars#original#this one was really fun to make until it started started scratching myslef 😢
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Pomegranate cookies and handprinted programs for our annual New Year's Eve Saturnalia
#minneapolis#minnesota#saturnalia#new year's eve#linotype#linocut#block printing#printmaking#original art#baking#royal icing cookies#cookie decorating#roman empire#history#mythology and folklore#antiquity#pomegranate cookies
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Typography Tuesday
NEVILLE BRODY -- Industria and Insignia
English graphic designer and typographer Neville Brody (b. 1957) is noted for his record cover designs and for his work for the culture magazine The Face, the men’s magazine Arena, and the London magazine City Limits. Brody’s typographic style uses aesthetic elements from Art Deco and non-European influences. His graphic language has become an international model for computer-oriented design. Among his earliest fonts are Industria and Insignia.
Industria was originally designed for The Face in 1984 and released as a font by Linotype in 1989. Industria is a condensed san serif face with abbreviated, essential forms. It has a systematized mechanical structure of straight stroke with rounded outer corners and rectangular counter-spaces. It’s possible that you might recognize the font as it was used for the logo of The X-Files and is currently used for the logotype of the Oklahoma City Thunder basketball team.
Insignia was originally designed as a headline face for Arena magazine in 1986 and released as a font by Linotype in 1989. It has the basic forms of constructed Grotesque fonts and was influenced by the New Typography of the Bauhaus from the 1930s.
These images come from the 2005 book Creative Type: A Sourcebook of Classic and Contemporary Letterforms by Cees W. de Jong, Alston W. Purvis, and Friedrich Friedl, and published by Thames & Hudson.
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#Typography Tuesday#typetuesday#Typography Tuesday#type designers#Neville Brody#Industria type#Insignia type#Linotype#san serif type#Grotesque type#Creative Type#Thames & Hudson
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LINOTYPE OPERATORS
In this century, making and spreading news has never been easier. However, this was certainly not the case around the 1960s. People then used to rely on “Linotype Operators�� who used to press down articles on newspapers piece by piece with the help of a metal typesetter.
This occupation naturally demanded patience and time, which people actually gave into gratefully as there was no other medium of retrieving news then. Soon after, though, this occupation slowly lost its place when Phototypesetting was introduced.
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Please watch this if you have even the slightest interest in machines
#gotta be the pinnacle of mechanical engineering#don't get me wrong#computers are neat#but I need contraptions#engineering#linotype#Youtube
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My second stamp is based on a different passion of mine, analog photography! Here is a 1950s film camera stamped in, the Leica IIIf. Back in its day, it was considered a very fine piece of kit, with a viewfinder to compose your image, and a separate rangefinder to align the focus.
I think the low-lying areas of this stamp look much cleaner than my first (though the light flatters it), and the not-quite enough pressure when stamping imitates the texture of the leatherette!
Can you identify the little features on the stamp?
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my lino knife, thirsty for blood: u don't need yr bench hook. just steady the lino with yr other hand. trust me
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Was passiert eigentlich, wenn man da drauf drückt? 🧐😲 #linotype #elektron #button #pushthebutton #surprise #spannend #typorama #bischofszell #thurgau #museum #schweiz #switzerland (hier: Typorama) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpR2PpdIBm5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
#linotype#elektron#button#pushthebutton#surprise#spannend#typorama#bischofszell#thurgau#museum#schweiz#switzerland
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I had a great coffee and studio tour with @walkerwoodengraver today. An amazing output of projects and great wood engravings. Thanks for the tour and chat George, let’s do it again soon! #woodengraving #bookarts #letterpress #leadtype #linotype #bookbinding (at Toronto, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoVeg9SOUOs/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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