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Once again i forgot to do this because of swimming...thank god its done... But anyways. Friday in class we heard our first presentation about the Victorian era it was a very well presented and very informative. I still do not like this style just because of the clsusterness of everything. I prefer a minimalist approach to work. I like clean and simple and this is defiantly not the style.On the contrary one thing i found interesting that i hadn't known before was that coca cola has the style of the victorian era. I never noticed that.

Question.... What do people see in this that they like so much are there many designers out there that prefer this style?

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Once again i forgot to do this because of swimming...thank god its done... But anyways friday in class we heard our first presentation about the victorian era it was a very well presented and very informative even though i do not like this style just because of the clsusterness of everything. I prefer a minimilistic approach to work. i like clean and simple and this is defiantly not the style. but one thing i found interesting that i hadn't known before was that coca cola his the style of the victorian era. I never noticed that.

Question.... What do people see in this that they like so much are there many designers out there that prefer this style?

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Sorry i am late with this one I have been at a swim meet all weekend and did not have internet at the hotel... So here is an image i found online while i was browsing "creative news" this website had about 50 retro throwback advertisements. So this advertisement is for the underground in London and it reminded me of the Victorian era because as we talked about in class they would portray the culture in there ads and they would commonly use kids, puppies and ribbons ect. well in this ad that is what is going on. It is two kids talking to a rabbit about the Underground. The typography looks to be a little later then the Victorian era but it was more of the imagery I was focusing on. The quality is excellent considering it was used such a long time ago.

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Sorry i am late with this one i have been at a swim meet all weekend and did not have internet at the hotel... So here is an image i found online whil i was just browsing "creative news" this website was about 50 retro throwback advertisements. So this advertisement is for the underground in london and it reminded me of the victorian era because as we talked about in class during this time they would portray the culture in there ads and they would commonly use kids , puppies and ribbons ect. well in this ad that is what is going on it is two kids talking to a rabbit about the underground. The typography looks to be a little later then the victorian era but it was more of the imagery i was focusing on. The quality is excellent considering it was used such a long time ago.

Arts and Crafts...fun

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The arts and crafts movement began with one man named William Morris. Morris started off going into priesthood then into architecture but it wasn’t creative enough for him so he left to paint with a man named Burne-Jones. He became talented making new typefaces based upon old style typography. Morris was a influential man who inspired many new designers of the period.

Then there was Ruskin. He called upon designers and artists and architects to come forward because of the lack of creativity. He stated that designs were not aesthetic, but rather for purpose. The man i found interesting was actually at the very beginning of the chapter and his name is William Pickering, William sought a deep love for books, and he played an important role in separation of graphic design. He was in control of format design, type selection, illustration and all of his printers. I find him interesting because he was in complete control over every thing he did with his designs. And would stay with them to the end.

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So it began the arts and crafts movement. The arts and crafts movement began with one man named William Morris.But it was Ruskin who inspired the movement he called upon designers and artists and architects to come forward because of the lack of creativity. He stated that designs were not aesthetic any more but rather for purpose. Back to Morris morris started off going into priesthood then into architecture but the job wasnt creative enough for him so he left to paint with a man named Burne- Jones. HE became talented making new typefaces based upon old style typography. Morris was a influential man of his time and he inspired many new designers of this period. But the man i found interesting was actually at the very beginning of the chapter and his name is William Pickering, William sought a deep love for books, and he played an important role in separation of graphic design and the printing process of books. He was in control of format design, type selection, illustration and all of his printers. i find him interesting because he was in complete control over every thing he did with his designs.

one thing i found interesting about this chapter is the fact that designers find a way to improve the way things look even during a time of everything being similiar and factory made.

one question i have is what time do we start moving away from the gothic look?

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In class we talked about the start of the industrial evolution. We discussed what type of style the industrial revolution is and designs that occurred within it. We talked about different printing methods along with different cameras and ways of producing images and ways of printing images. Laura even had some old cameras that she passed around that we got to look through. They were interesting because they were different and simple.

One thing I found interesting was the cameras. I thought it was interesting how they were designed for function rather then aesthetics.

What was the proper way to use the camera's?

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Whoops i forgot to do this yesterday. Well two days ago in class we talked about the start of the industrial revolution. We discussed what type of style the industrial revolution actually is and what were some things that happened in it. We talked about different printing methods along with different cameras and ways of producing images and ways of printing images. Laura even had some old cameras that she passed around that we got to look through. They were interesting in the fact that they were different and simple as in the inner workings but confusing for me because i couldnt even figure out how to look through them.

One thing i found interesting was the cameras i thought it was interesting how they were designed for function rather then aesthetics.

one question i have is... what was the proper way to use those camera's?

I laughed, I cried. i cried again when i had to redo this.

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So in this chapter we talked about the Industrial Revolution that took place in London. This era was a step for graphic design because it took design away from broadsheets to something we recognize today such as posters. This was possible because of the advancements in printers. The first steam powered printer was made by Friedrich Koenig whose printer could print over 400 sheets per hour. Other advancements included the Fourdrinier brothers who created a machine that could create an endless supply of paper, even though they bankrupted themselves in the process! But even with these printers all the letters had to be individually placed which took a long time (because typing this takes a long time think about doing it one letter at a time!) But all was saved in due time by a hero we call Mergenthaler who had a keyboard operated machine that would drop the letter in place when you pushed a button. Kind of like a crappy typewriter....Next we move onto to something that is just getting started, if you couldn't guess by previously reading this post it is photography. Niepce was the first credited to experiment with light sensitive materials but the process was perfected by Daguerre. Other notable achievements include Sir John Herschel who figured out the negative and George Eastman who developed the first Kodak camera. Mathew Brady who took pictures of the civil war and was the first historical documenter.

One thing i find interesting is that the first photographed man was done on accident and we dont even know the name.

Question: Explain Chromolithographic printing?

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I laughed, i cried, i feel asleep, and i finished the reading. This blog i am deciding to take a new method. While i read i took notes and during my notes i asked questions and i made comments. so instead of re typing everything i will share my notes and what i learned and what i thought of it all...

Chapter 9

Industrial Revolution Location- England

This is the beginning of the industrial revolution starting in the 1780s with the introduction of the steam engine. Not only did the industrial revolution start the transformation from rural to urban living began but so did the advancements in graphic design. This became the first time that factory system fractured graphic communications into seperate design and production componenets. Typography its self exploded with new letterforms different sizes. The invention of photography and eventually the process of printing photographs. Before the industrial revolution books and broad sheets were the main type of typographic communication. But with the revoulution with advertising and posters and faster printers, large scale, more publicity. Books and broadsheets handwriting typography was not enough.

Lithographic printers- skilled craftsmen rendered plates directly from an artists sketch and produced images and leterforms from the artists imagination

QUESTION- When was the first non-human printer developed meaning manpower was not needed to print. ANSWERED

Cotterell- First to sand-cast large, bold display letters ( twelve lines of pica or 2 inches)

Robert Thorne- Cotterell’s successor was the first to use thick strokes in type making them “bold” around 1803 sometimes with a 1:2 ratio of capital height.

Figgin- 1815 specimen book presented the first 19^th century version of tuscan letters. This style is represented by curved and extended serifs. (reminds me of style used for circuses) Friggins introduced the first “3-D text” This caught on very fast and it became manipulated in many ways including thinner backs floral disigns on the front of letters ect.

QUESTION- What do they mean by specimen books?

The third major typographic advancement came in william caslon the 4^th’s specimen book was San-Serif.

Darius Wells- 1827 invented a lateral router that enabled the economic mass manufacturing of wood typed for display printing since metal casings were very exspensive to make. This made printing so much easier that customers were invited to send in a drawing of one letter and the manufactury would design a whole font family off of the drawing. This increased demand for public posters by many clients including traveling circuses to clothing stores to train stations.

At this time designers only job was to fit the words on the paper and to use the fonts they had available just by enlongating the font or squishing. Emphasis important words ect. Also around this time you start to see transformation away from public postings and more newspaper and magazine space advertising.

Printing

Friedrich Koenig- Invented the steam powered printer printed 400 sheets an hour.

William Cowper- 1815 patent for a printing press using curved stereotyped plates wrapped around a cylinder. 2400 Impressions per hour.

Obvioulsly these advancements in printing saved labor cost and improved newspaper quality and lowered costs.

Fourdrinier brothers created a machine that could create an endless sheet of paper. “ Fourdrinier brothers gave the world economical and abundant paper, they ruined themselves financially in the proccess” QUOTE OF THE DAY

Mechanization of typography- Setting every letter of every word of every newspaper slowed down the printing machines.

Mergenthaler- On July 3^rd 1886 demonstrated his keyboard operated machine. Some how cast metal when a button was pushed.

QUESTION- explain this? And the competition New York Newspaper had.

Photography

Niepce- Was the first to experiment with light sensitive materials for capturing images his first invention he called heliogravure or Sun engraving.

Daguerre- Perfected the process of photography, a highly polished silver- plated copper sheet was sensitized by placing it, silver side down, over a container of iodine crystals they combined the plate was then put in a camera and exposed to light then the disk was was placed over a plate of mercury. Then a salt bath then you had a picture.

Statement about above WTF!!

Talbot- Also worked with photographs, called his photographs “photogenic drawings”

Sir John Herschel- First to use Sodium Thiosulfate to make images permanent him and talbot shared information. And talbot found a way to reversed the picture and they called it a negative. Whole process became called photography.

George Eastman- Developed the Kodak Camera in 1888.

1881- The era of photographic reproduction had arrived. The tedious process of transferring a artists designs to woodblocks that took 1 week. Was now replaced with a photographic process that took 1-2 hours with greatly reduced costs.

Victorian Era (1819-1901)

This period preffered very gothic like design (PENCIL OF NATURE IMAGE) 9-40

SOAPBOX TIME- I truly do not like the type of design that we have been studying I do don’t like the design like the illuminated manuscripts and the design of the churches with very elaborate paintings on the ceilings and fancy stain glassed windows. It may be interesting just because it took so long to make but from a design point I hate it because everything looks so clustered and geometrically centered and correct.

The graphic design of the victorian era captured and conveyed values of the era which included printed images of children, maidens, puppies, and flowers.

The Development of Lithography

Lithography was invented by Bavarian author Aloys Senefelder in 1796. (SIDE NOTE...Why do the dates jump around in this book so much cant we start here and then work toward photography.)

He developed planographic printing which is printing from a flat surface. Lithography is based on the simple chemical principle that oil and water do not mix so the image is drawn on a a flat stone with oil based pen then water poured to moisten non oil parts then oil base paints over that so paint sticks to the oil pen then a sheet is placed over that and you a printing press to make the transfer and whoa you got you print.

French Printer Godefroy Engelmann created a process called chromolithogrophie in 1837. Pretty much several printers did several colors.

QUESTION: Am I Right with this idea above?

Richard Hoe- perfected lithographic press it had the ability to do economical color printing,

QUESTION: How did he figure out color printing?

Bufford- Specializing in art prints, posters, covers, and book magazines bufford used 5 colors or more. Started off with the black print then used combination of color presses to get different tones. With over-printing.

QUESTION- Did color printing come before photography? I think it did but I get confused cause the book is jumping around.

Lithography- the process of printing from a flat surface treated so as to repel the ink except where it is required for printing.

Chromolithography- a colored picture printed by lithography, esp. in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Chromolithography, Quickly spread, 1860 60 firms emplyed over 800 people and in 1890 over 8000 people were employed by 700 firms. Designers had the ability to add vibrant colors to typography

Englishman Robert Barclay recieved a pattent for offset lithographic printing on tin process is on page 157.

1897 marked the end of chromolithography and the introduction of photography. That answers my question.

Kids

Walter Crane- One of the earliest and most influential designers of childrens picture books (besides dr. Suess :) )

Advertising Design

Harper Brothers- Harper’s Illuminated and Pictorial Bible they made it in fifty four installments with 28 pages each. The harper brother firm opened the era of the pictorial magazine in 1850 (here we go with the date jumping around) this was the first monthly magazine.

Nast- a illustrator for the magazine became famous for his drawing of the cicil war in the magazine. Then after the war nast became the first political cartooner, he created such symbols as santa clasu, John Bull, The democratic donkey, the republican elaphent, Uncle sam and several more. Nasts most famous work included “tammany tiger” political cartoon attacking Tweed.

QUESTION: Why do they always make bibles first?

Notice how my notes start great and get shorter as i realize i have 29 more pages.

But one thing i found real interesting about this reading is the photography section although it confused me a lot it is real interesting how they figured out to do that cause what are the chances?

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This is an image of a more modern day broadside. As we learned in class a broadside is a single sheet printed on one side. These Broadsides were usually posted to inform people or they were sold cheaply for about 5 cents. This example was probably used after one of the world wars. But just like in history it is used to inform the public. I found this image online with a google search. The design and typography aren’t related to what we learned but the concept a broadside is what i am focusing on. As for quality it is very high quality and is very well made. I was attracted to this piece just because of its retro design. I want to incorporate old design techniques into modern works.

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This is an image of a more modern day broadside. As we learned in class a broadside is a single sheet printed on one side. These Broadsides were usually posted around to inform people or sold cheaply for about 5 cents. This example was probably used after one of the world wars. But just like in history it is used to inform the public. I found this image online with a google search. The design and typography arent related to what we learned but the concept of the idea of a broadside is what i am focusing on. As for quality it is very high and is very well made. I was attracted to this piece just because of its retro design that i interested in. I want to incorporate old design techniques into modern works.

Interesting

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This chapter focused on new design principles, book making, and fonts. In the 1700's Pierre Simon was the first printer to attempt to set up a standard table of proportions. Pierre also created new type faces that focus on sharp serifs with thin and thick strokes. Another big contributer to modern day design and standardization was the Didots who developed the “pt.” system for type size. Another influential man during the period was Caslon who became well known for his self titled font called the Caslon font, the Caslon font focused on thick and thin lines which was an attempt to make it more friendly to the eye. And finally John Baskerville who created a new formula for ink and paper which made writing easier.

I find it interesting how much the standardization of type size that was created is still used today.

question. How was the point system name founded how did they decide to use points?

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This chapter focused on the upcoming of new design principles in book making along with the fonts that came through. in the 1700's Pierre Simon was the first printer to attempt to set up a table of proportions for a standard. Pierre also created new type faces that focus on sharp serifs and thin and thick strokes. Another big contributer to modern day design and standardization was the Didots who developed the pt. system for type size which we still use today. Another infuential man during the period was caslon who became well known for his self titled font called the Caslon font, the caslon font focused on thick and thin lines which ws an attempt to make it more friendly to the eye. Ad finally John Baskerville who created a new frmula for ink and paper which made writing easier

I find it interesting how much the standardization of type size that was created is still used today.

question. How was the point system name founded how did they decide to use points?