So our final lecture!!!
The final lecture today was about typography . It is a type face with a single alphabet for example arial.
Typography dates back thousands of years to caveman’s drawings on rock walls. Then the first written letter dating back to 15,000bc originates from the middle east, it uses an alphabet called Phoenician, which oddly contains no vowels. Thanks to the Greeks adaption of their own alphabet we now have vowels, as most modern alphabets originate from the Greeks one. This alphabet was latter taken by the romans who added capital letters to it, in order to add more emphasis to certain words.
Uncial script came into play later on this added new dimensions to the lower case letters making them easier to write. Also in this time parchment was introduced and the reed pen replaced the quill. As the alphabet evolved the romans mixed lower case and upper case letters together this is known as the half uncial alphabet.
The renaissance saw another change to the alphabet. This humanist alphabet was more open, slender and had taller letters, it also introduced the two cases to each other.
Later gothic became the alphabet of choice, a good example of this period is the book of kells, currently located in trinity college, it uses gothic throughout. Also in this period paper replaced parchment and the first printed paper was created by a german by the name of Gutenburg.
In the labs we gave a presentation of our semiotics assignments explaining why we chose who we chose and why we decided to display them the way we did. We were then given our new assignments, draw ourselves once and then draw ourselves again using letters, numbers and characters. As I said before I am no artist I really don’t look forward to this.
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