Class #6: February 13, 2013

Summary:

Art Nouveau:

• Starts within the Arts and Craft's movement
• Around until about 1914
• 1914: WWI

Aubrey Beardsley:

• Influenced by Morrison
• Used Morrison's works as inspiration for his work
• Influenced, also, by asian design 
• Flat
• Negative space
• Abstract form
• Dark sensuality to his work

Test Review:

1. First communication
2. Clay tablets before paper
3. Greek letterforms
4. Roman letterforms
1. Formal
2. Nonformal
5. Celtic letters: Book of Cels
6. Uncials: rounded letterforms
7. Carol letters
8. Playing cards: first form of printing
1. Block printing
2. Xylography
3. Devotionals
4. Though bubbles
5. Letterforms are becoming more refined
9. Guttenburg: printing press
1. Letter "punch"
10. Early manifestation of printing:
1. Letter of indulgence
11. Words to know:
1. Xylography
2. Ligature
3. Incunabla
4. Fleurons
12. Negative space interacting with text
13. Examplar page: thumbnails/layouts/example page
14. First book printed in the colonies:
1. The Whole Book of Psalms (1640)
2. Printed by Steven Daye
3. Just guys trying to make a living
1. It's for the money
15. Examples of letters with the grid system
16. Rococo design -- French
1. Rococo ended with the French Revolution
17. Neo Classism: the french bat porn page 
18. Copper plate printing = more designs - easy to engrave
19. Bodoni: early forms of Rococo design
1. Fat face fonts
2. Egyptian type face
3. Tuskin letters: cowboy letters
20. Power: machine wood-type
21. Pragmatic letters on advertisements: it is what fits
22. KNOW THESE:
1. Old style
2. Traditional
3. Modern
4. Egyptian
5. San serif
23. Be able to identify:
1. Cap Height
2. Ascender line*
3. X-height
4. Base line
5. Descender line
24. Leading: space between two lines
25. Linotype machines
26. Victorian Era
1. Aesthetic confusion
2. Ephemera: printed objects not meant to be collected
3. Scrap cards
4. Entertainment: money
5. Packaging design
6. Manipulation in media
7. Children entertainment: toy books
8. Letterpress, woodcut, mixture of the two
27. Thomas Nast: political cartoons
28. First large scale electric sign -- New York

Personal Thoughts:
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