{"id":6044,"date":"2013-06-21T01:00:48","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T05:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=6044"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:21:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:21:49","slug":"moving-images-the-history-of-typography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/21\/moving-images-the-history-of-typography\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving Images: The History of Typography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The History of Typography - Animated Short\" width=\"670\" height=\"377\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wOgIkxAfJsk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">After 140 hours of work and 2,454 photographs, <a href=\"http:\/\/forrestmedia.org\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Barrett-Forrest<\/a> presents <em>The History of Typography<\/em>, an animated paper short featuring 291 paper letters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/historyoftypography.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6046\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/21\/moving-images-the-history-of-typography\/historyoftypography\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/historyoftypography.png\" data-orig-size=\"1249,697\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"historyoftypography\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/historyoftypography-300x167.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/historyoftypography-1024x571.png\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6046\" alt=\"historyoftypography\" src=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/historyoftypography-1024x571.png\" width=\"670\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/historyoftypography-1024x571.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/historyoftypography-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/historyoftypography.png 1249w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 140 hours of work and 2,454 photographs, Ben Barrett-Forrest presents The History of Typography, an animated paper short featuring 291 paper letters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[1074,1864,1063,1075],"class_list":["post-6044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moving-images","tag-ben-barrett-forrest","tag-moving-images","tag-paper-animation","tag-the-history-of-typography"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Btis-1zu","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3596,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/11\/moving-images-whale-fall\/","url_meta":{"origin":6044,"position":0},"title":"Moving Images: Whale Fall","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"January 11, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/29987934 A visual interpretation of the life that sprouts from a whale's death from Sweet Fern Productions that perfectly compliments the Radiolab episode Loops. 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