The Evolution of Print. Where we left off… Guttenburg, at around 1450 A.D., invented the first “printing press,” even though the Chinese and Koreans had.

The Evolution of Print

Where we left off…

• Guttenburg, at around 1450 A.D., invented the first “printing press,” even though the Chinese and Koreans had been printing with moveable type for hundreds of years.

• The first books printed by Guttenburg were Bibles.

The Guy Who “Changes” Everything

The Gutenberg Printing Press

• Developed in Germany in A.D. 1450

Early Printed Works Were….

Kickstarting Knowledge Again

• The Renaissance brings about a huge expansion of the “Human Knowledge Database”, most of which is recorded in books for the first time.

Math and Science Books Boom!

“Medical Books” are hugely popular!

Johan Oporinus, “The Makeup of the Human Body” from 1530

What other Books we are Making?

• All of the “New” knowledge being discovered begins to be categorized and recorded in book form.

What were “Designers Designing?”

Albrecht Durer, Underweisung der Messung, 1525

Where will all this “Reason and Sanity”

end?

We Turn Fanciful

• As mankind begins to bump into barriers in knowledge, we begin to develop Fantastic Explanations for what we do not understand.

The Absurd and Fantastic Begins to Explain our Shortcomings

Witchcraft is on the Rise

Graphic Design Turns to Fantasy

• Development of Fantastic Fonts and Letterforms inspired by Nature and the Unknown.

• “The Natural Alphabet”

Your Assignment:

• Develop a “Themed Alphabet”

• Create a complete alphabet, carrying through a predominant theme throughout, illustrating each letter as you go.

• The alphabets will be printed and bound and sent to the Elementary School for use with K-2 students!