Alongside his work for the firm, Morris produced a series of English-language translations of Icelandic sagas with Eiríkr Magnússon, as he was greatly inspired by his visits to Iceland. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. Start studying Meggs' History of Graphic Design Ch. He moved his London home to Kelmscott House, the current home of the Society, in 1878. Some historians believe that another reason the Berlin Wall was built was in an attempt to increase relationships between the USA and the USSR. Swamping journalists with an endless stream of press releases won't get you the coverage you want. William Morris was a Marxist with a very spiritual passion for beauty – a paradoxical visionary who saw no contradiction between socialism and soft furnishings. Of course we probably would have been fine without Luther or the Lutherans - so it's not as if all this was "good" - but it was important to our history. Truth is that there’s a lot more to the story than I mentioned. In a previous post, we answered the question “ Why is Printing Important? America’s third president was decidedly pro-press, unless the press was covering him. Day, who had been working in the printing business, started a newspaper as a way to salvage his business. The Penny Press is generally considered to have started in 1833, when Benjamin Day founded The Sun, a New York City newspaper. 10. ” and we briefly touched the topic of the printing press invented by Johannes Gutenberg. Instead, get creative to get our attention. The printing press called more and more people to Luther's defense. It was the first successful attempt at Protestantism and on into the modern world. From 1871 Morris rented the rural retreat of Kelmscott Manor, Oxfordshire. The Gutenberg printing press - invented in the 1440s by Johannes Gutenberg, a goldsmith from Mainz in Germany - is widely considered to be one of humanity's defining inventions.