Si writes about Germany:

Another Designer Moment

The world's first printed books were created from a seat much like this.

Visiting the mind-bendingly huge Deutsches Museum in Munich, somewhere in amongst the five or six floors of exhibits I stumbled on the Printing exhibition and may in hindsight have gotten just a little excited.

If you appreciate this, you're as much a type nerd as I

Metal type! Heidelbergs! Actual lead leading! Oh my.

I've never felt so tempted to ignore the "Please Don't Touch" cards as when there was a sign and a little rope stopping me from getting a close look at a Gutenberg press and letterset.

Quite probably not actually a relation of mine

Oh, and I may have checked out the plane belonging to a long-lost semi-relation of mine (Note: probably not actually related).

So, in summary: Deutsches Museum, Munich. Highly recommended.


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