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The University of Texas at Austin-Gorman
Romain du roi
Thin straight serifs.
Caslon
Standard british typeface. Dec of indep.
Pierre Jeune
point system.
Baskerville
Transitional type, smooth pressbeds, hot pressed wove paper, Kiss printing.
Bewick
White line wood engraving.
Bodoni
Modern style.
Senefelder
Lithography.
Stanhope
All cast iron press.
Thorne
Fat face.
Koenig
steam powered cyliner press.
Hokisai
1830-1832. Thirty six views of mount fuji. Ukiyo-e woodblock.
Hoe
rotary lithographic press
Ruskin
The nature of gothic.
Mackmurdo
Century guild
Morris
Kelmscott press.
Ball and Tzara
Launch Dada(anti-war, chaotic)
Gropius
Bauhaus
Old style vs modern
O: caslon, moderate contrast
M: Didot, Bodoni, extreme contrast
Wood engraving
Mass production, painstaking hand labor.
Lithography
Chemical reaction between oil and water
Photo engraving
light sensitive chemicals to etch.
Fourdrinier machine
Continuous rolls of paper
Stereotype
casting a metal printing plate from a mould pf metal type
Lino vs monotype
L: keyboard operatory casts a line of lead
M: Cast individual loosed characters one by one
Top 3 image tech
Chromolithography, wood engraving, halftone
Top 3 text tech
Fourdrinier paper machine, team cylinder press, linotype
Why did posters become popular
rapid urbanization, demand for advertizing
why was print cheaper in 1900 than 1800
wood pulp manufacturing, automated stram cylinder press
Ruskins Nature of Gothic
condemned industrial division of labor for reducing human workers to mindless machine tools
Crit of victorian design
Vuglar, cluttered, lacking structural integrity
Arts and crafts movement
truth to materials, fitness for purpose, unity of design
Ukiyo-e
flat, bold color, birds eye view
Picasso, cubism, & african masks
appropriation…
Bauhaus designers
Bayer & Nagy
Tschichold
New typography. Asymmetrical layout, sans-serif.