your turn #3

Incunabula (spread around two pages, moveable discs) Petrus Apian, Astronomicus Cesareus, 1530

last class we discussed specific moments in the development of graphic design from late middle ages to renaissance and humanism. we covered incunabula, newspapers, maps, moveable type and specific book masterpieces: the nuremberg chronicle, plantin's biblia poliglota, geoffroy tory's champsfleury, edhard ratdolt's works, manutius' hypnerotomachia polyphili (and bembo), tyndale's bible, albert dürer's four horseman, william blake, vesalius' de humanis corpora fabrica and the best book ever produced: the gutenberg's bible!

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your turn #2

                                book IV of the codex calixtinus (santiago de compostela cathedral)

we covered plenty of middle-ages marks: life in the country, in the city; cheese, dung, feces; our fabricated myth of "organic"; scribes, scriptorium serendipities, piment!; we contrasted the slow evolution of typefaces from trajan to beneventan to similar developments in architecture; codexes, old book parts; illumined manuscripts; frontispiece, etc., colophon, secretary hand; decretals; minuscule vs. majuscule; book of hours; ars moriendi; dance macabre,    

wow.    

pick a subject and spin it like you did last time. as usual, I close the comment option next wednesday 10pm.