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STYLE  BOOK

Aaron  Miller

History  of  Graphic

Design

REBUS RIBBED  VAULT

An  allusional  device  where  a  design  or  picture  takes  place  of  a  word  or  part  of  word.

Of ten  used  in  the  middle  ages  for  surnames  or  professions.

 A  rib  vault  is  the  intersection  of  multiple  rib  vaults.  They  of ten  used  ribbed  vaults  to  put  more  windwos  higher  up

and  they  also  of ten  made  them  out  of  stone  so  they  could  support  a  wood  roof.

ROSE  WINDOW TYMPANUM

The  name  given  to  rounded

windows  of ten  used  in  churces  

with  gothic  architecture.

They  recieved  the  name  from  

their  obvious  rose  shape.

A  tympanum  is  a  decorative  piece  placed  over  an  entrance.

It  is  normally  semi-circle  or  triangular  cnsisting  of  carved  images

and  sometimes  words.

ROCOCO HIERATIC  SCALE

Rococo  was  of ten  referred  to  as

late-baroque.  Rococo  was  very  ornate  

they  used  creamy  pastel  colors

and  assymetirical  designs.

Hieratic  Scale  is  manipulating  the  

size  of  the  f igures  to  portray  

signif igance  or  importance.

The  larger  f igures  obviously

being  more  important  than  the

smaller  ones.

TRADEMARK DROP  CAP

A  symbol  or  word  that  is  registered  as  a  representation  for  that  company.

It  is  supposed  to  differentiate  the  difference  between  products  from  two  seperate  companies.

There  are  many  guitars  shaped  like  Fenders,  but  their  trademark  is  what  lets  you  know  it  is  a  Fender.

A  Drop  Cap  is  where  the  f irst  letter  of  a  paragraph  is  enlarged  but  kept  f lush  with  the  paragraph

indenting  many  lines  below  it  to  keep  everything  even.

ILLUMINATED  MANUSCRIPT PICTOGRAPH

A  manuscript  that  is  decorated  with  initials,  borders,  or  other  design  along  with  

the  text  contained  within  them.

A  writing  system  where  the  pictures  portray  a  physical  object  and  that  is  how

they  are  comrehended.

STAINED  GLASS ITALICS

A  cursive  tupeface  started  with  calligraphy  and  usually  slants  to  the  right.

Stained  glass  got  its  color  from  metallic  salts

used  during  manufacturing,

Usually  stained  glass  is  exclusively  windows  of

churches  and  other  buildings,  but  artists  are

starting  to  breakout  of  that  mold.

Printer’s  marks  were  essentially  trade  marks  of  the  time  period.  Printers  used  them  to  

put  their  litt le  mark  on  their  piece  of  work.  The  f irst  printer’s  mark  was  on  The  Bible  

made  by  Fust  and  Schoffer.

PRINTER’S  MARKS INTAGLIO

A  group  of  printmaking  techniques  where  you  cut  into  a  surface  known  as  a  plate

cover  it  with  ink  and  then  print  with  it.  People  will  of ten  use  metal,  but  many  other  materials

such  as  wood  and  various  stones  have  been  used.

INTERLACES LIGATURES

Interlaces  are  where  portions  of  the

artwork  overlap  by  seeming  to  be

braided  or  knotted  together.

Of ten  times  it  is  useed  to  f ill  space.

Ligatures  are  where  pieces  or  adjacent  letters  are  in  direct  contact  with  each  other.

It  happens  more  of ten  than  many  people  realize,  mainly  because  it  is  not  something  we  are

taught  to  pay  attention  to.

Moveable  Type Pointed  ArchesMovable  type  is  a  tupe  of  printing  that  

uses  different  components  to  recreate

letters  and  punctuations  for  documents.

The  f irst  moveable  tupe  was  created

in  China.

A  pointed  arch  was  exactly  that,  a  pointed  arch.  It  allowed  for  the  architects  to  lif t  them  higher  due  to  where  the  support

of  the  building  was  sitting  compared  to  Romanesque  rounded  arches.

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