Book Design » printing http://books.sorodesign.com designing books Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:08:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 PRINTING in small town COLOMBIA http://books.sorodesign.com/2007/04/23/printing-in-small-town-colombia/ http://books.sorodesign.com/2007/04/23/printing-in-small-town-colombia/#comments Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:12:01 +0000 ceci http://books.sorodesign.com/2007/04/23/printing-in-small-town-colombia/ Just north of Bogota is the small town of Zipaquira. It’s known mostly for a cathedral that’s carved deep inside a salt mine. The town also played a small role in the development of literature. Gabriel García Márquez received a scholarship to a school in Zipaquira, where he spent more time in the library reading rather in the classroom.

View of Zipaquira

Wandering through the pleasant colonial town we walked by an open doorway where an elderly woman was printing funeral notices, a common custom in small Colombian towns where the notices are pasted on street corners.

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Curious, and slightly enchanted by the old tools of the printer, we asked if we could come inside and take some photos.

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Type in Zipaquira

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