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History Of Graphic Design
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●Introduction
●First Things First Manifesto (original)
●01/18/01: Contemporary Overview
●01/23/01: Contemporary Overview 2
●01/25/01: From Pre-print to Incunabula
●01/30/01: Incunabula through Renaissance
●02/01/01: to 1800s
●02/06/01: The Half History
●02/08/01: Mass Medium
●Font comparison
●02/13/01: Art/craft/career
●02/22/01: Through New and Nouveau
●03-06-01: Rumors of war
●03-20-01: Modernizing
●03-22-01: The Avant-Garde through The Ring
●03-29-01: Bauhaus
●04-17-01: The International Style, The Many Moderns
●04-19-01: Home growing
●04-24-01: 50s, 60s, 70s
●04-26-01: Public messages, private meanings
●05-01-01: The beginning was the end
●05-03-01: The next (big) thing(s)
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Lascaux cave painting
evolution of Western alphabets
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Chinese scroll (vertical reading)
Diamond Sutra: oldest complete printed book 868AD
Chinese movable types c. 1300BC
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Korean metal type book (coincident w/Gutenberg)
Kufic script, approx. 1000AD: Koran
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Koran: 1490s (Turkey)
next
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monumental capitals, Roman tomb
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Uncials, half-
uncials, Caroline miniscules
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The Book of Durrow, 680
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Douce Apocalypse, 1265
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Ars
Moriendi, 1466, block-book next
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