we covered the development of graphic design during Renaissance and Humanism with some heroes in between: Ratdolt, Vesalius, Tory, Tyndale, Plantin (the fourth language of his Biblia Polyglota I stumbled on is Syriac, sorry about that), Griffo/Manutius, and of course the master of masters GUTENBERG.
VERY IMPORTANT: see how community usually makes for great design! Griffo is the punch cutter (and designer of typefaces) working for Manutius (the great humanist publisher and scholar), together they produce marvels such as
this,
& this,
& this,
which makes for a pretty good contribution to Italian culture, and a good argument as to why Bembo was so influential -and Gothic could not prosper in the south. Can you imagine Dante's Paradiso printed is in Gutenberg's black lettering?
Look at the difference,
