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History of Graphic Design home page history of Graphic Design ArtH 4901 ● 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) http://www.d.umn.edu/~jkmetz/GDH/ [23/10/2002 22:00:42] 01/25/01: Pre-press to Incunabula (1) Lascaux cave painting evolution of Western alphabets http://www.d.umn.edu/~jkmetz/GDH/1-25-01.html (1 of 4) [23/10/2002 22:00:59] 01/25/01: Pre-press to Incunabula (1) Chinese scroll (vertical reading) Diamond Sutra: oldest complete printed book 868AD Chinese movable types c. 1300BC http://www.d.umn.edu/~jkmetz/GDH/1-25-01.html (2 of 4) [23/10/2002 22:00:59] 01/25/01: Pre-press to Incunabula (1) Korean metal type book (coincident w/Gutenberg) Kufic script, approx. 1000AD: Koran http://www.d.umn.edu/~jkmetz/GDH/1-25-01.html (3 of 4) [23/10/2002 22:00:59] 01/25/01: Pre-press to Incunabula (1) Koran: 1490s (Turkey) next http://www.d.umn.edu/~jkmetz/GDH/1-25-01.html (4 of 4) [23/10/2002 22:00:59] 01/25/01: Pre-press to Incunabula (2) monumental capitals, Roman tomb http://www.d.umn.edu/~jkmetz/GDH/1-25-01_2.html (1 of 5) [23/10/2002 22:01:09] 01/25/01: Pre-press to Incunabula (2) Uncials, half- uncials, Caroline miniscules http://www.d.umn.edu/~jkmetz/GDH/1-25-01_2.html (2 of 5) [23/10/2002 22:01:09] 01/25/01: Pre-press to Incunabula (2) The Book of Durrow, 680 http://www.d.umn.edu/~jkmetz/GDH/1-25-01_2.html (3 of 5) [23/10/2002 22:01:09] 01/25/01: Pre-press to Incunabula (2) Douce Apocalypse, 1265 http://www.d.umn.edu/~jkmetz/GDH/1-25-01_2.html (4 of 5) [23/10/2002 22:01:09] 01/25/01: Pre-press to Incunabula (2) Ars Moriendi, 1466, block-book next http://www.d.umn.edu/~jkmetz/GDH/1-25-01_2.html (5 of 5) [23/10/2002 22:01:09] [...]... used in gutenberg bible) http://www.d.umn.edu/~jkmetz/GDH/1-25-01_3.html (2 of 4) [23/10/2002 22:03:44] 01/25/01: Pre-press to Incunabula (3) fust: detail of "psalter in latin", 1457 http://www.d.umn.edu/~jkmetz/GDH/1-25-01_3.html (3 of 4) [23/10/2002 22:03:44] 01/25/01: Pre-press to Incunabula (3) fust: "rationale divinorum officiorum," 1459 Albrecht Dürer, broadside, woodcut, 1515 (rhino)/type diagrams... http://www.d.umn.edu/~jkmetz/GDH/01-30-01_1.html (1 of 6) [23/10/2002 22:04:18] 01/30/01: Incunabula through Renaissance (2) Henri Estienne, Aristotle's Metaphysics, 1515 http://www.d.umn.edu/~jkmetz/GDH/01-30-01_1.html (2 of 6) [23/10/2002 22:04:18] 01/30/01: Incunabula through Renaissance (2) Robert Estienne, 1549 Geoffroy Tory, capital A http://www.d.umn.edu/~jkmetz/GDH/01-30-01_1.html (3 of 6) [23/10/2002 22:04:18] 01/30/01:... 02/01/01: to 1800s (2) Didot, Bucolica, 1798 Didot, detail of above http://www.d.umn.edu/~jkmetz/GDH/02-01-01_1.html (5 of 6) [23/10/2002 22:04:49] 02/01/01: to 1800s (2) next http://www.d.umn.edu/~jkmetz/GDH/02-01-01_1.html (6 of 6) [23/10/2002 22:04:49] 02-01-01: to 1800s (3) Shakespeare 1st folio, 1597 http://www.d.umn.edu/~jkmetz/GDH/02-01-01_2.html (1 of 4) [23/10/2002 22:05:00] 02-01-01: to 1800s (3)... http://www.d.umn.edu/~jkmetz/GDH/01-30-01.html (4 of 6) [23/10/2002 22:04:00] 01/30/01: Incunabula through Renaissance Manutius & Griffo, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, 1499 http://www.d.umn.edu/~jkmetz/GDH/01-30-01.html (5 of 6) [23/10/2002 22:04:00] 01/30/01: Incunabula through Renaissance Manutius & Griffo, page from Opera with italic, 1501 next http://www.d.umn.edu/~jkmetz/GDH/01-30-01.html (6 of 6) [23/10/2002 22:04:00]...01/25/01: Pre-press to Incunabula (3) from "the book of trades" (1568) left to right, top to bottom: parchment maker, papermaker, typefounder pouring lead, printer removing sheet and inking, "designer" draws for woodcut or engraving, woodblock cutter, illuminator, bookbinder http://www.d.umn.edu/~jkmetz/GDH/1-25-01_3.html (1 of 4) [23/10/2002 22:03:44] woodcut 01/25/01: Pre-press to Incunabula... http://www.d.umn.edu/~jkmetz/GDH/01-30-01_1.html (4 of 6) [23/10/2002 22:04:18] 01/30/01: Incunabula through Renaissance (2) Garamond, sample Kerver, http://www.d.umn.edu/~jkmetz/GDH/01-30-01_1.html (5 of 6) [23/10/2002 22:04:18] 01/30/01: Incunabula through Renaissance (2) Poliphili, 1561 next http://www.d.umn.edu/~jkmetz/GDH/01-30-01_1.html (6 of 6) [23/10/2002 22:04:18] 02/01/01: to 1800s Simonneau,... http://www.d.umn.edu/~jkmetz/GDH/02-01-01.html (1 of 2) [23/10/2002 22:04:32] 02/01/01: to 1800s Fournier le Jeune, Manuel Typographique, 1764 & 1768 next http://www.d.umn.edu/~jkmetz/GDH/02-01-01.html (2 of 2) [23/10/2002 22:04:32] 02/01/01: to 1800s (2) caslon c 1730 England Caslon, type specimens, 1734 http://www.d.umn.edu/~jkmetz/GDH/02-01-01_1.html (1 of 6) [23/10/2002 22:04:49] 02/01/01: to 1800s... http://www.d.umn.edu/~jkmetz/GDH/02-01-01_1.html (2 of 6) [23/10/2002 22:04:49] Baskerville c 1750, england 02/01/01: to 1800s (2) Luce, Essai d'une Nouvelle Typographie, 1771 Bodoni: pages, http://www.d.umn.edu/~jkmetz/GDH/02-01-01_1.html (3 of 6) [23/10/2002 22:04:49] 02/01/01: to 1800s (2) 1771, 1774, 1793 Bodoni c.1790 Italy 1818 http://www.d.umn.edu/~jkmetz/GDH/02-01-01_1.html (4 of 6) [23/10/2002 22:04:49] Bodoni:... Alvise, Ars Moriendi, 1478 http://www.d.umn.edu/~jkmetz/GDH/01-30-01.html (2 of 6) [23/10/2002 22:04:00] 01/30/01: Incunabula through Renaissance Aldus Manutius (printer)/Griffo (type designer), type sample from De Aetna, 1495-6 Manutius & Griffo, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, 1499 http://www.d.umn.edu/~jkmetz/GDH/01-30-01.html (3 of 6) [23/10/2002 22:04:00] 01/30/01: Incunabula through Renaissance Manutius... der Messung, 1525 next http://www.d.umn.edu/~jkmetz/GDH/1-25-01_3.html (4 of 4) [23/10/2002 22:03:44] 01/30/01: Incunabula through Renaissance Sweynheym & Pannartz, type specimens: top, 1465/bottom, 1467 Type samples top: Johannes de Spira, 1469/bottom: Nicholas Jenson, 1470 http://www.d.umn.edu/~jkmetz/GDH/01-30-01.html (1 of 6) [23/10/2002 22:04:00] 01/30/01: Incunabula through Renaissance Giovanni . History of Graphic Design home page history of Graphic Design ArtH 4901 ● Introduction ● First Things First Manifesto (original) ●. bible) http://www.d.umn.edu/~jkmetz/GDH/1-25-01_3.html (2 of 4) [23/10/2002 22:03:44] 01/25/01: Pre-press to Incunabula (3) fust: detail of "psalter in latin", 1457 http://www.d.umn.edu/~jkmetz/GDH/1-25-01_3.html (3 of 4) [23/10/2002. Pre-press to Incunabula (1) Lascaux cave painting evolution of Western alphabets http://www.d.umn.edu/~jkmetz/GDH/1-25-01.html (1 of 4) [23/10/2002 22:00:59] 01/25/01: Pre-press to Incunabula