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This programme looks at the future of the printed page. It commences with a brief history of printing and literacy and then analyses the impact of computers on graphic design. The programme looks i...n detail at the production of the academic journal BLEND and subsequently the 'Book Emulator' at York University, a computer programme which produces text on the screen with many of the advantages of a conventional book, such as page turning.
This programme looks at the future of the printed page. It commences with a brief history of printing and literacy and then analyses the impact of computers on graphic design. The programme looks i...n detail at the production of the academic journal BLEND and subsequently the 'Book Emulator' at York University, a computer programme which produces text on the screen with many of the advantages of a conventional book, such as page turning.
| Module code and title: | EH207, Communication and education |
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| Item code: | EH207; 07 |
| First transmission date: | 04-07-1987 |
| Published: | 1987 |
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| Duration: | 00:24:16 |
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| Producer: | Geoff Wheeler |
| Contributors: | Martin Lowry; Michael Twyman |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Antwerp; Dickens; Ian Benest; Patricia White; Plantin Moretus museum; Simon Eliot; Typesetting; Videodisc; York University |
| Master spool number: | HOU5553 |
| Production number: | FOUE206S |
| Videofinder number: | 509 |
| Available to public: | no |
