Design Inspiration : Getting Medieval
BBC4 are showing a season of programs about life in Medieval times. The programs are covering everything from crime in the 14 and 1500’s to the oldest cookbook in Britain.
For anyone interested in printing, Stephen Fry presented a program about the Guthenburg press. The program showed how the experts think the press was made, because obviously there are no pictures or descriptive diagrams of the press. They then built a wooden press from scratch. He also created some metal type at a foundry, which was beautiful, laid it out and printed a page on some hand made paper created from rags - 15th century style.
The Medieval Season came to my attention (and the reason for this post) is because BBC have been showing a very cool ad for it. The ad shows images from that time, set to a version of Jimi Hendrix’s “Purple Haze” played on medieval instruments. I just love the combination of the music with the animation of the medieval symbols and imagery. You can see the ad below.
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Hi, my name is Jennifer Farley and I am a designer and design instructor based in Ireland. Read more about Laughing Lion Design .
