The Invention Of Printing Press

In the 1450s the first practical printing press was invented by Johannes Gutenberg. This invention was a major mile-stone in the evolution of human communication. In the (Background Essay) it notifies that “The idea wasn’t new. The Chinese introduced woodblock printing in 600 CE.” This exploration inspired Gutenberg, and saw his chance to reform it into something even better. This made him ask himself “Why not metal letters that wouldn’t wear out, set in a frame that could be inked, papered and pressed?” in the (Background Essay). The purpose of this essay is to explain whether the exploration or reformation of the printing press was the more important consequence.

Author, J. Baldius firm in William of Ockham, created an advertisement expressing the way scribes, people who make copies of documents, hand wrote before the Printing Press was created.(Doc 1) Prior to the Printing Press, people hand wrote books and drew illustrations that took many years to complete.When the creation of the moveable type took place, it allowed for people to create books at a much faster rate and it enabled for more jobs to be available. Moreover, the development of this invention spread all across Europe between the years of 1471 and 1500. In maps displaying the spread of the Printing Press from 1471 and 1500, the location from where they started were mainly in Germany, Netherlands, and Italy.(Doc 2) In 1500, there were nine times more printing press’ then there were in 1471 and in that year there was one printing press in every major city. The popularity of the printing press spreads knowledge throughout Europe and makes people realize that this invention was not only a necessity, but it was not even counted as a luxury. The development of the printing press was the most important of all the consequences because although it was the beginning, it sparked a new and easier way for people to spread their knowledge and ideas quickly but

Considered one of the most influential typographers in history, John Baskerville made a significant mark on the world of print and type founding. Although considered a failure at printing during his lifetime he produced

Graphic design set its first roots in Germany in 1455 with the introduction of the Blackletter typeface and Johannes Gutenberg’s Gutenberg Bible. Coined as the godfather of printing Gutenberg helped to spread Blackletter in popularity. With the advent of Martin Luther’s New Testament, however, a schism was created between those that chose to use

Will Swanson 10/12/14 Hour 2 Printing Press The printing press had a major effect on society. It spread information very quickly and accurately. The invention of the printing press helped create a wider literate reading public.

The press which Gutenberg created was also thought have to adapted from a wine press machine “these contraption are wine presses, Alan May thinks that Gutenberg’s press evolved from machines like these.”[10] There is a big wooden thread which generates all the power and then needs a counter thread that will guide it down and that had to be craved out by hand. “This ingenious device uses these wooden pegs to guide the thread on its journey, meanwhile a set of cutters at the other end carve the counter thread through the solid wooden block”[11] An image drawn by Albrecht Durer roughly sixty to seventy years after Gutenberg made his press. This illustration shows that the legs of the press come forward away from the press where as presses today has legs that keep the press centered. Gutenberg used an isolated area to build and use his press so people don’t come and steal it “No-one knows exactly where his workshop was, but it must have been somewhere near here. He'd chosen a secluded base to protect himself from the threat of industrial espionage.”[12] To get his required font he went to the guild of gold smiths and met a man called Hans Dunne. Together they made a breakthrough that helped Gutenberg make his movable type “a master copy of the letter we want to reproduce. After we've transferred its outline onto the tip of this steel bar, it has to be carved by hand

The influential typeface Helvetica, a neo-grotesque1 sans serif type design, came into being in the early 1950s - after the Second World War. The expectation of the designers, Edouard Hoffman and Max Miedinger was to create a neutral typeface that had great clarity, no intrinsic meaning in its form and could be used on a wide variety of signage to remake a new identity apart from the past (). Originally named as Neue Haas Grotesk, the typeface was changed to Helvetica in 1960. Today, Helvetica, as an aesthetics constant, although not perfect, mastered the quantum leap in 1957 from metal type to the digital age of word processing. Axel Langer, a curator of Islamic Near Eastern Art, mentioned it as ‘an impersonal typeface for today and tomorrow ().’

I researched a few type foundries. I was not aware until now that they were even called this or existed. I found this site, P22 Type Foundry. They create computer typefaces inspired by Art & History. They also offer customer fonts and licensing agreement options.

A Serif font is a small decorative line finishing off as embellishment of a letter or a character in certain typefaces. On other words, serif is the little decorative tail that appears the letters or characters. However, serif is an old typefaces and famous so you might see it in every publishing such as books, magazines and newspapers. Thus, the formal of the serif is classic and confident typeface. For example, Times New Roman, Caslon, Garamond and

In 1436 Johannes Gutenberg invented the Printing Press, which had a major impact on both the Renaissance and printing today, however there other movable type systems invented before Gutenberg’s Printing

If we examine, by quantifiable evaluations focusing on printing production and the distribution of associated technology and scrutinized by the characterization of the extensive expanse of knowledge and ideas across Europe we will discover the invention of the printing press. A result of progress, among a number of allied industries, papermaking and goldsmithing were principal players.

The typeface I chose for this research is Times New Roman. I like this typeface out of all the other. You can use this font in many different ads, magazine, books, and etc. this font was first evented in Times New Roman is a Transitional serif typeface designed by Stanley Morison and Victor Lardent. It was released through Monotype in 1931. The design was based off Plantin , but with a renewed focus on legibility and economy to better meet the needs of newspaper typography. Times New Roman is one of the most ubiquitous typefaces of the digital publishing age due to it being the default font for numerous word processing applications and web browsers. In Times New Roman's name, Roman is a reference to the regular style of a conventional serif font. Times New Roman was a metal type created in the late sixteenth century by the French artisan Robert Granjon

As we have seen from this case, typefaces, more than any other design elements, provide a link to the history of printing and how technology influences the concept of ‘normal’. The development of ‘normal’ rests on how human interfaced with the technology: partly on the new added or disappeared constraints; partly due to the different interactions in a totally new context. Design is refining the ‘normal’ bit by bit so that the typefaces as well as other products are still fits in with people’s life with the core of absence and familiarity and finally exceeds ‘normal design’ to ‘Super Normal design’ by the judgement of time.

The first script that I learned is the Palmer script. Austin Norman Palmer developed the Palmer Script in the 1870s and, it was prominent in the 1960s. Palmer is italic cursive letters and designed to be more of a masculine handwriting than an ornamental script. This writing system was intended to allow the body to perform efficiently by emphasizing position and posture. Public schools taught this script and businesses often used it.

With the Gutenberg invention the revolution had begun. It advanced the process of movable type further, and started a new era of printing called typography. The typography allowed information to move from almost permanent and portable to the