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Posted: July 16th, 2007 under history, typography.
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Comment from Robert
Time: July 16, 2007, 3:38 pm

Stunning work. I look at this and think the human attention span has deteriorated exponentially since the days of scribes.

Comment from xensen
Time: July 16, 2007, 6:27 pm

Yep. A big part of the history of design amounts to trying to recapture what the early Renaissance had already mastered.

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