Pre-industial design in the Middle Ages (Guilds & Gutenberg) (1)

Books in Medieval Period

making a book in medieval period, you had to work with multiple types of people (a person who makes parchment aka leather, also making use of other animals)

unknown, codex aureus of st.emmeram, 870

books were very valuable based on materials and they would chained down to tables and a lot of times would include a curse within them

Books in Medieval Period (2)

there is a clear theme within these books and they were time consuming/expensive and people wanted to find a different way to make the process go faster

The appearance system in Guilds

in middle school, you could get a job as appearance and when you perfect your craft, you can become a journeyman and produce what people would claim as your masterpiece

Unknown. Chest. Gothic, England. 1200-1300

this is a similar approach toward geometry design

the printing press

A mechanical device for transferring text or graphics from a woodblock or type to paper using ink. Presses using movable type first appeared in Europe in about 1450

who created the the printing press

Johannes Gutenberg and this was responsible to help change the world

Johannes Gutenberg, "The gutenburg bible" gothic period, Germany, 1455

there is a process to create a book, a period when punctuation was very new still, and they would use the red letters for a beginning of a sentences

Johannes Gutenberg book

you would give it to people to do the red sentences and someone who could stitch the book together

Gutenberg's printed vs hand - written bible

people desired Gutenberg's way more because of grid/predictable and identical versus the inconsistency of the words and the quality of the text,

Gutenberg's page size vs 13th century bible from England

Gutenberg page sizes are larger and easier to read

Erhard Ratdolt, Page from "Fassiculus Temporum" (Encyclopedia of history), 1485

europe had 30,000 books and 50 years after, Europe ended up having more books and better communication