Gutenberg was such an influential person in design history because his invention help create a faster way of printing. the invention was monumental because it significantly cut down the amount of time that is needed in order to copy a book. It also helped books to become more affordable to the common people, without this invention we could be still copying books by hand through rewriting every story that was created. I believe without that invention we wouldn’t be able to purchase any thing that is documented without spending a lot of money it would probably  take months at a time to just to print one novel.

From our class activity I learned that it’s not that easy to simply choose letters  and put them on paper though the press of ink and pressure it to the paper and call it done. Although the process didn’t seem too  difficult I can understand that using the blocks you can make a simple mistake with confusing certain letters with each other due to the fonts that can be chosen can look very similar to each other with small variations to them versus what can be written by hand and would a lot of time to create.