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[10] [14] By 1980, Langdon claims both he and Stanford graduate student Scott Kim invented ambigrams, albeit separately. Kim called his creations inversions; in 1984, Douglas Hofstadter coined the term ambigram. [16] [12] The first ambigram Langdon sold was of the word STARSHIP to Jefferson Starship for their 1976 album Spitfire.
Johnston was born in San José de Mayo, Uruguay. [3] [4] His father, Fowell Buxton Johnston (born 1839), was an officer in the 3rd Dragoon Guards, and the younger son of Scottish MP Andrew Johnston [5] and his second wife, abolitionist Priscilla Buxton, [6] daughter of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet.
Life is a 2015 biographical drama film directed by Anton Corbijn and written by Luke Davies. It is based on the friendship of Life photographer Dennis Stock and American actor James Dean , starring Robert Pattinson as Stock and Dane DeHaan as Dean.
A revolving type case for wooden type in China, an illustration shown in a book published in 1313 by Wang Zhen Korean movable type from 1377 used for the Jikji. Although typically applied to printed, published, broadcast, and reproduced materials in contemporary times, all words, letters, symbols, and numbers written alongside the earliest naturalistic drawings by humans may be called typography.
The typographer was an early typewriter invented by William Austin Burt. [1] Intended to aid in office work, the machine worked by using a lever to press characters onto paper one at a time. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was the first typewriting machine to be patented in the United States, although Pellegrino Turri had made one in Italy in 1808. [ 4 ]
Life is a 2017 American science fiction horror film [5] [6] [7] directed by Daniel Espinosa, written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick and starring an ensemble cast consisting of Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson, Ryan Reynolds, Hiroyuki Sanada, Ariyon Bakare, and Olga Dihovichnaya.
Frederic William Goudy (/ ˈ ɡ aʊ d i / GOW-dee; [2] March 8, 1865 – May 11, 1947) was an American printer, artist and type designer whose typefaces include Copperplate Gothic, Goudy Old Style and Kennerley. [3] He was one of the most prolific of American type designers and his self-named type continues to be one of the most popular in America.
[3] He was also known as Fournier le Jeune ("the younger") to distinguish him from his father Jean Claude, who was also in the typesetting industry. In his early life, Fournier studied watercolour with J. B. G. Colson, and later wood engraving. In 1737, Fournier published his first theoretical work, on the minimum spacing between letters while ...