Project 01 / Survey of the History of Typography
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The Invention of Writing
3150 B.C – A.D. 1450
Courtney Nazak & Carter Rudnick
The Invention of Printing
A.D. 1450 – 1800
Stevie Calderon & Keira Rowland
An Era of Typographic Geniuses
late 1700’s – 1800
Alex Crook, Karin Hsu & Leland Tong
The late 20th Century
A.D. 1960 – 1990
Mia Aguillon & Elena Staats
The early 90’s to the present
A.D. 1990 – the present
Shuaa Al’harbi & Giovanna Cappetta
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The Invention of Writing
3150 B.C - A.D. 1450
Graphic communications in ancient Egypt, papyrus, the Chinese contribution, the Phoenician alphabet, Capitalis quadrata, parchment paper the Medieval manuscript, Majicule Letters, Caroline Minuscules, Gothic Textura Quadrata, or Textura, the late Gothic style, Roman Rustic writing
The Invention of Printing
A.D. 1450 - 1800
The Anatomy of a Letterform, Incuncabula, The “Blackletter”,
Movable type: Johann Gutenberg, The Mainz Psalter, The German
Illustrated Book, Roman Typefaces, William Caxton, Claude Garamond, Nicolas Jenson / Adobe Jenson, Johann Fust, and Peter Shoffer, Francesco Griffo, Aldus Manutius, Jean Jannon, paper production and book binding
An Era of Typographic Geniuses
late 1700’s - 1800
The Enlightenment, The Renaissance and Graphic Design,
Louis Simonneau, Philippe Grandjean, Pierre Simon Fournier le Jeune, William Caslon, Robert Clee, John Pine, John Baskerville, Louis Rene Luce, Jean Joseph Barbou, Giambattista Bodoni, Firmin Didot, Hermann Berthold, Geofroy Tory and Humanist design, Engraved Letters, George Bickham, Printing technologies of this Era
The Nineteenth Centry and the Industrial Revoltion
A.D. 1800-1900
Letter Typography for an Industrial Age, the Explosion of Advertising,
the first photographic printing plate, Robert Thorne, Vincent Figgins,
William Caslon IV, Manual Tipographico, Condensed and Extra Condensed, Slab Serif, Rob Roy Kelly, Fat Face, Wood and Sharwoods, ornamental type, chromalithography, Ottmar Mergenthaler, Tolbert Lanston, William Morris’ Kelmscott Press, The Lumiére brothers, Art Nouveau, Frederick Goudy and Bruce Rogers
The late 19th century and the early years of the 20th century
A.D. 1850-1960’s
William Morris, Arts and Crafts Movement, Edward Johnston: The Search for a Standard Alphabet, Le Corbusier and the grid, De Stijl, Vilmos Husza: the Dutch avant-garde journal, Theo van Doesburg, Stanley Morrison, Eric Gill, Type and the avant-garde artists of the early twentieth century: Jan Tschichold, Piet Zwart, John Heartfield, Filippo Marinetti, Herbert Bayer and the Bauhaus, Alexei Brodovitch, Russian Constructivist, Paul Renner and Futura, Josef Müller Brockmann.
The late 20th Century
A.D. 1960-1990
Typography and the road sign, The Basel School of Design, Armin Hoffman, Saul Bass, Paul Rand, Herb Lubalin, Wolfgang Weingart, Karl Gerstner, Gerald Holton, Emil Ruder, Wim Crouwel, Lo-Res family, designed by Zuzana Licko for Émigré, 1985. Philippe Apeloig, Neville Brody, The Rise of Digital Communication, PostScript, Pixel Based Fonts
The early 90’s to the present
A.D. 1990-the present
Digital Design Tools, Deconstruction and Typography, Barry Deck’s typeface Template Gothic, Emigre Fonts, Rudy Vanderlans, Cranbrook Academy of Art, P. Scott Makela, Typographic Innovation: Stephan Sagemeister, Elliot Earls, David Carson, Martin Venezky, Rick Poynor, Type and the Internet, Cell Phones, hand held video games, IPhone, Blackberry. What is happening today with typography? What does it mean to publish?