History of Graphic Design........DAY 1

The first forms of typography
     -Capitalist Quadrada (square capitals).
     -Rustic Capitals.

Charlamagne
     -Alquin of York cleaned up Charlamagne's writing.

Evolution of block tablets
     -xylography- wood block prinitng.
     -paper had to be made for this.

     -A manual on the art of dying was created with xylography.
     -Later developed with color.

     -Letters so began to have qualities of caligraphy.

4 things needed in order to make books
     1) There must be a growing middle class
     2) Students in a university system
     3) Increased literacy
     4) Demand

-A book was the value of a small farm or vineyard.

Gutenberg
     -Gutenberg gets credit for creating the printing press.
     -Gutenberg used Blackletter / Textura fonts.
     -Gutenberg's Bible was printed in the mid 1400's (1450-1455).
     -1450- Gutenberg takes out a loan to make a bible.
     -Gutenberg partners with Fust.

     -Ligature- two characters made to work as one.
     -Incunabula- the infancy of printing (first fifty years)
     -Fleurons- decorative printing elements