GCM 130 Study Guide - Final Guide: Photoengraving, Fortunato Depero, Walter Crane

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Graphic Communications
• Course: GCM 130
• Professor: Gillian Mothersill

Document Summary

Dr. thomas young: proved that the direction in which glyphs of animals and people faced was the direction from which hieroglyphics should be read. Chapter 2 alphabets: phoenicians: became seafaring merchants, absorbed ideas from egypt and. Charlemagne: king of the franks, holy roman empire; introduced the feudal system where landowning noblemen held dictorial powder over peasants; revived learning. Procopius waldfoghel: involved in production of alphabets of steel . Laurens coster: explored the concept of movable type by cutting out letters or words from his woodblocks for reuse; competition with gutenberg. Johann gutenberg: first brought the complex systems and subsystems necessary to print a typographic book around year 1450. Johann fust: lended money to gutenberg for printing the 42-line bible, established a partnership with him, sued gutenberg before 42-line completed. Peter schoeffer: entered agreement with fust and was responsible for format development and type design of the 42-line bible; first typeface designer.