the evolution of print. where we left off… guttenburg, at around 1450 a.d., invented the first...
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Where we left off…
• Guttenburg, at around 1450 A.D., invented the first “printing press,” even though the Chinese and Koreans had been printing with moveable type for hundreds of years.
• The first books printed by Guttenburg were Bibles.
Kickstarting Knowledge Again
• The Renaissance brings about a huge expansion of the “Human Knowledge Database”, most of which is recorded in books for the first time.
What other Books we are Making?
• All of the “New” knowledge being discovered begins to be categorized and recorded in book form.
We Turn Fanciful
• As mankind begins to bump into barriers in knowledge, we begin to develop Fantastic Explanations for what we do not understand.
Graphic Design Turns to Fantasy
• Development of Fantastic Fonts and Letterforms inspired by Nature and the Unknown.
• “The Natural Alphabet”