Places to read
Read wherever you can in Alaska, in Bed, while Camping, in the Doctor’s waiting room, while Eating, in your Flat, in the Garden, lying in a Hammock, on an Island, on the Job, in Kenya, on a Lilo, on your Mattress…And where do you read? Send us photos of you’re the most unusual among your favourite places to read to dbsm-info@dnb.de and we will publish it in our virtual exhibition.
Printing methods
The A-Z of industrialisationPrinting methods are a collective term for technical processes (Technology) used to duplicate publishing products (Publisher) such as books, journals (Journal) and newspapers (Newspaper) by reproducing texts (Script) and images (Illustration). New printing methods are subject to patent protection (Copyright) in the beginning and often require new types of print media (Paper).
Publishing house
Publishers are companies in the book trade that reproduce works of literature, art, music or science or articles in a journal or newspaper and sell these commercially (Trade). The publisher procures the rights of use to a work in the form of a contract, while the author or his/her heirs are the holders of the copyright.
Quadraat
An encounter with the tried and tested and the originalAlthough Quadraat is a digitally created typeface, it is based on manual drawings done by Dutch designer Fred Smeijers in his office in the early 1990s. He followed Antiqua archetypes, but ultimately created an original italic typeface in Quadraat Italic.
Radio as a mass phenomenon
Radio as a media beacon of hope or a propaganda instrument?The discovery of electromagnetic waves by the German physicist Heinrich Hertz in 1887/88 paved the way for wireless telegraphy and, ultimately, the development of radio. Following pilot broadcasts during the First World War, a Christmas concert was broadcast on 22 December 1920 from Königswusterhausen as the first German civilian broadcast.
Red Tape
A design typeface like sticky tapeGerman graphic artist Gert Wiescher created the Red Tape typeface in 2004. The idea came to him while travelling in the US.
Roman Index
Censorship in the name of the Catholic Church, 1559-1948What is the connection between Alexandre Dumas, Heinrich Heine and Martin Luther? All their works were banned by the Catholic Church and found their way into the Index librorum prohibitorum.
Sabon
A uniform typeface for all systemsAt the beginning of the 1960s, efforts were made to find a typeface that was suitable both for Linotype and Monotype typesetting machines and could also be used in manual typesetting. The objective was not a completely new typeface but a printing type that was fully interchangeable and combinable in all three typesetting systems.
Samisdat newspapers in the GDR
Sneaking past printing permissionThe word samizdat comes from Russian and means “self-publishing agency”. Wladimir Bukowski, a Russian dissident of the Soviet system, described the concept as follows. “You write yourself, you edit yourself, you censor yourself, publish yourself, distribute yourself and serve the (prison) sentence for everything you have done yourself”.
Science
The A-Z of industrialisationScience is the knowledge that humankind gains through systematic and methodical research and it is taught within an institutional framework in schools, colleges and universities.
