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2 History of Type videos

2 History of Type videos Week 3

In the video, “A Brief History of Type” by Rob Leushcke talks about how types evolve from past to now. This video was interesting to know that the first movable form of type was created in China using ceramic materials and then a short time later metal type was being used in Korea. In the West, Johannaes Gutenberg created the first mas-produced book the Gutenberge Bible. In 1470s, the French artist Nicholas Jensen was the first to create a Roman face. In 1800s, Otmar Mergenthaler developed a machine that would cast a hot lead alloy of metal into lines of type. In 1898, Talbert Ianceton created the mono type system and it was used by most of the large publishing houses and newspapers. In the mid-1980s, the typographic industry prepared for a technological transformation so the type design could be found on everything. By the 1990s font development software had became reasonable for the graphic designer. Today, the trend of new creative thought design is getting stronger as the development of software allows artists to use powerful tools at will.

3 Typography videos

3 Typography videos Week 1

Font Men
In this video, it was interesting that two men decided to make their company together. They said they love this work and it is fun but also it is really hard. I found that letters “H”, “O” and “D” are the decision about the weigh, about the width, the serif and spacing, tradition weigh of the thick to thin. Also, the most surprising is that typeface is made by living designers today.
Mike Langley
Mike Langley loves the old, he doesn’t like the new. He claims that letters are human feelings and no two letters are going to be same. He says that mistake and profession are interesting. I agree with him because the painting by hand more interesting to look the designer works than created by science.
Dan Rhatigan on Ryman Eco
He says a good typeface is expressing that a kind of personality for someone who work with and reponse to. Ryman Eco is a typeface design to minimize the surface area of every letters and it is a font that trying to save the link.

Introduction

INTRODUCTIONS

Hello, everyone. My name is Minjee Go. I am from South Korea. My major is a Studio Art and specialization in Digital Imaging that is why I am taking this class. I like graphic design and specially I like typography. However, I have not learned about it deeply. Through this class, I would like to learn how to be more creative on typography and improve my graphic design skills.