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A great story! In 1900 two friends set up an artistic printing press in London and invented Doves Type. Inspired by the innovations of William Morris, it was considered by many to be the most beautiful typography ever invented. However, the friends fell out and in a fit of revenge, one threw the punches, matrices and type itself into the Thames at Hammersmith Bridge in 1916. A century later, haunted by the beauty of work printed in Doves, graphic designer Robert Green hired three ex-Marine divers to search the riverbed for the lost letters. They found 151 pieces, which had drifted less than 20 yards in a century. Today Green has made a digital version, and Doves Type is once again a going concern, available online to romantics, creatives and printers. <http://nationalmuseums.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=bab668357ad9438405 91e2f94&id=d6dccef8cf&e=7c97222ee8> Buzzfeed, <http://nationalmuseums.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=bab668357ad9438405 91e2f94&id=5b508e2814&e=7c97222ee8> Doves Type Nicky Boyd Museum Consultant (audience research & evaluation) 17 Lizban Street Blackheath London SE3 8SS 020 8853 0110 07759 393 779 <x-msg:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] <x-msg://130/www.nickyboyd.co.uk> www.nickyboyd.co.uk + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + GEM list: Contact the list owner for assistance at [log in to unmask] For information about joining, leaving and suspending mail (eg during a holiday) see the list website at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=GEM + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +