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Graphic Design HIS.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Aldus Manutius | created italic type and Bembo typeface. Also modernized the , and use of the ; |
| Arts and Craft Movement | William Morris. Craftsmanship |
| Block Prints | wooden stamps. Asia |
| Book of Kells | Celtic Christian book |
| capitalis monumentalis | Roman CAPS. TRAJAN |
| calligraphy | Asia. Fancy letters |
| charles dana gibson | Gibson girl. Block printing artist. scribners and hapards. idealized beauty drawings. |
| chromolithography | Multi-colored prints |
| clarendon | English slab-serif by robert besley |
| claude garamond | type designer AND punchcutter! What a deal! Garamond, duh. |
| cuneiform | wedges in some clay. earliest form of writing. |
| de humani corporis fabrica | book. skeletons in every day life settings |
| diamond sutra | Asian book. Sanskrit |
| erhard ratdolt | German printer in Venice |
| fat faces | characters gained weight |
| firmin didot | type founder, engraver, and printer! DIDOT! |
| geoffroy tory | champfleury. humans and typeface unite |
| giambattista bodoni | extreme contrasts in characters. |
| ideographs | meaning through picture |
| illustrated manuscripts | text and decoration in a book. Asian monks hand made these. |
| invention of paper | CHINA |
| invention of the alphabet | Greeks cleaned the phenetion alph and then the roman empire added characters (all caps). lowercase came in medeival times |
| invention of writing | mesopotamia people with their cuneiform |
| john baskerville | baskerville. typeface would be used in the DOI. Folio bible |
| joseph niepce | first photo |
| kelmscott press | est by william morriss |
| louis prang | christmas card father. lithographer and printer |
| modern type | skinny hairlines and thick verticals |
| nuremberg chronicles | illustrated bible and history book |
| ottmar mergenthaler | linotype machine |
| parchment | animal hide used to write on before paper |
| pictographs | cave paintings |
| relief printing | like a stamp |
| romain du roi | royal type commissioned by the king |
| rosetta stone | egyptian, demotic, greek. 3 different scripts on a rock |
| sans serif | no serifs. |
| slab serif | slabby serifs. all square and what not. |
| steps in creation of typographic printing | |
| textura | blackletter also called gothic |
| the four horseman of the apocalypse | biblical with diff colored horses |
| thomas nast | caraciturist. santa |
| transitional roman | bridges gap between oldstyle and modern |
| venetian or old style roman | |
| wet plate collodiom process | |
| william caslon | |
| william morris | Lead arts and crafts movement. designer, author, etc. |
| wood type poster | wooden types |
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Chelseagirl2508
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