Wednesday 28 October 2015

Lecture: Type-production & Distribution

Typography exist because of historical context, it is the art and technique of printing. It is the art of how language looks like illustrative picture have sound.
The origins of writing: the first true alphabet was the Greek Evolution development pictures into symbol alphabet.

Johannes Gutenberg (1450) worked on the printing press in 1436, it is not language, but effectively present the culture and religion. The elementary education act (1870) is when reading became mass culture, where form and function of type are considered. The idea of design of type starts with Bauhaus (1919-1933), function and mass production started. Typography does not only appears on printed word, but as picture art as well.

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