Unit 1>part 1&2

key points:

-earliest pictorial markings-africa 200,000

-by making tools,human designers understood the idea of shapes for a use of intentional markings

-ideographs:symbols to represent ideas or concepts

-words represent unspoken thought:spoken words vanished but written words remain

-hieroglpyphs mean "sacred carving"

-writing with symbolic shapes for excerpted tremendous force on human imagination.

-alphabets thus become graphic counterparts of spoken sounds in space

-Roman “written” hand took 2 forms: square and rustic capitals

-codex: Christian book, the books were used to create evidence for the church...to preserve the information

-Graphic forms were established that would extend into all printed books by the 1400s

-The Vatican Vergil isthe most important surviving ancientexample of an illustrated book of classical literature”.

-a visual culture begins to be established through the first woodblock prints in the early 1400s

-block books-perhaps the first printed western book-by 1450 ad, gave way quickly to a new technology.

-the youngest member in the book printing is called "the book devil"

-incunabula means "baby's cloth"

-Graphic descriptions of the world spread assumptions, conventions, and standards.

-san-serif is the open to modern graphic design/history

what i grasped the most is how important books were and how beautiful they were in the preservation of the world and their lives...each letter was a work of art...it was very amazing to me.