your turn #5

alfonse mucha, die musik, 1898

dear class: we've talked about many things in our last class: daguerrotype, romanticism as cultural mark, harper's, owen's grammar of ornament, 19th century erotica, lithography, chromolithography, the design of circus and freaks, postcards,  fashion, children's books...

go ahead,  

your turn #4

Gutenberg's Bible

dear class:
since we invested last week's homework on the calligraphy project (thanks for your submissions!), the homework this week is to just comment on my lecture on thursday february 7, if you recall, we discussed (amog others topics) the following:

manutius' hypnerotomachia poliphylii,
incunabula,
nuremberg chronicle,
ratdolt,
gutenberg's bible,
plantin's biblia polyglota,
imagines, morti,
old maps,
tyndale's bible,
geoffroy tory,
andrea vesalius,
griffo's bembo,
garamond...

go ahead,

Your turn #2

book of kells, dublin, ireland, circa 8th century ad (look at the angels showing through the capital letters botom, right)

it was a fun class, we talked about lots of things: trajan column as mark, typeface's parts: ligatures, ascenders, descenders, arm, belly; then vellum, ink, calligraphy, church buttresses. we talked about preferred fonts, etc. ars moriendi, Dürer's "Four Horseman."then the development of typefaces and the marvel of illuminated manuscripts throughout Europe during the middle ages.

pick whichever angle you prefer. go ahead.