- Earliest pictorial markings Africa 35,000 BC
- Ideographs and Pictographs
- Invention of writing brought about intellectual revolution
- Cuneiform is the first phonetic writing system
- Egyptian Invention of Papyrus and first “Illustrated Manuscripts”.
- Logograms
- Invention of printing 860AD
- Movable type 1045AD
- Phoenician Greek and Latin Alphabet
- Uncials 3rd Cen. AD
- Latin Alphabet 1st Serifs on Trajan Column
- Square Capitals and Rustic Capitals
- Codex
- Celtic Book Design, first drafting tools used
- Black Letter
- Block Book
- Gutenberg's Printing press and Textur
- Albrecht Durer
- Renaissance type prototype
- Aldus Manutius, Italics, pocket book
- Claude Garamond
- Transitional
- Louis Simonneau’s master alphabets
- Modern Type Bidoni and Dibot
- Monster Type, Slab Serif
- Fat Face Letters novelty of type
- San Serif William Caslon the IV
Its very interesting to think about where the written alphabet has come from and how advanced that it has gotten. I can simple understand the symbols that I am typing right now. It really boggles my mind to think about the progression of type and all the thought that must have gone into creating a very first language and not simply learning it. After a concrete alphabet is established it can not be left at that, designer's push boundaries to see far they can take the alphabet and that is when something so basic as communication becomes art. It makes me wonder where I would be right now if there was only one typeface out there. Would graphic design still exist? Or would the alphabet just be a form of communication?
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