Day 3

Notes:

-Greater contrast between thick and thin with typography by the Copper graves

-Bodoni  created early title page that shows influences of Rococo.

-Inspired by transitional style

-1790 Bodoni redesigned roman letters with geometric system

-More mechanical and reinvented the serif

-Idea that letter forms should be built from a limited number of interchangeable units.

-1800s fat face is extreme exaggeration of thick, isn’t type made for reading just for display fonts.

-Industrialization

-Ephemera printed material that’s not meanted to be collected or saved

-Tells u whats bein sold, what people are buying and whats going on in the world.

-Text is generally 20% and lead is measured from base line to base line

Thoughts:

It's interesting to know that people actually took the time to experiment with fonts.

Someone actually took the time to recreate the alphabet and change a certain font with his own twist. I never really thought of font being that important to someone to use their time to experiment.

I also never really knew there was a specific way to write a book because you can only use certain fonts to keep the reader comfortable while reading.

Questions:

Is there any books written that are in a different crazy kind of font?

Why did Bodoni recreate the alphabet? Was he bored?

Day 2

Notes:

-Growing middle class, students in expanding universities, increased literacy, monopoly on literacy is bein takin away from the church,

-Incunabula = baby carriage

-Refers to the first 50 years of printing

-What was the first book printed? Gutenberg Bible

-Printing was centered in Germany

-By 1500, 35 editions of 9 million books

-Typography is the major communication advance between the invention of writing and 20^th century printing.

-Exemplar – example page

Personal Thoughts:

-todays movie was very boring and alittle hard to follow along with.

- type back then had to be hand carved which must have been alot of work and glad thats not how it is today because it would really suck.

-Gutenberg was just a normal guy but he was famous 

Day 1

Today in class i've learned that everything created is pretty much just a remix of something else and everything is repeated. An influence is needed to get you started. The video we watched was about Monks and Scribes and how they wrote on lamb or sheep skin with feathers. They would always leave some form of information about themselves whether it was in the script or the illustration around it. Fonts have went from cave drawings to symbols to letters overtime.

The material was understandable and very easy to learn from because it was movies. I can concentrate more watching movies then a teacher talking for 3 hours straight.

About me

My name is Julia Dunn and I am 19. I'm obsessed with cheetah print and I have to match everything. I was born and raised in Levittown, Pennsylvania. My major is Motion Design and my dream job is to be an animator. I have an older sister who also goes to an art school for Graphic Design. I work at a diner in Jersey and I use to spend a good amount of time there making money. I still work there when I'm home. When I wasn't at work I would be with my crazy family or getting in to trouble with my friends. I'm a wild girl who loves to have fun but when it comes to my work I'm completely dedicated.