GDF project: my pdf is done!

Happiness in a solitary Sunday! Even though I did not really struggle through the project so far, despite my preliminary remarks, I must say I am extremely happy with the results of this first stage of the whole project. I am satisfied with my pdf, the final version is very pleasant, I think I achieved what I was asked for and even though it is not perfect by any means, it is a good work. Beside it, it is still Sunday, so I can relax a lot now, give the last cares to the collages and write some posts here. Holidays are already starting at this point!

St. Brides Library Talk. Or how much I love Typography.

It happened some weeks ago, true, but I could not miss to talk about it. The visit to St. Brides Library has been great, in my opinion. Not that we did much during it, I would say we did not even see a lot of stuff, but it really did not matter. Mr Roche, Head Librarian of St. Brides, led a lecture about the history of printing, spreading through nineteen centuries, from the invention of paper by the Chinese people - the wood-based paper, to be precise, what we still mostly use nowadays - then to the Gutenberg bible, up to today's latest technologies for printing methods. His talk was amazingly detailed and all-embracing, for the relative short time available, it made me fall in love with printing and typography even more than I was already. Moreover, the quick look I had at the Library itself gave me a clear idea of the incredible amount and quality of the material that can be found in there.

I guess I would visit St. Brides more and more during next term, it is exactly what I need for the ISTD project I managed to get a place in!