Lecture 1

Important topics relating to the ideas introduced in lecture 1:
-Early mans forms of communication.
-First form of the alphabet and the different types of writing types.
-Hierarchy
-Chinese use of paper
-Douce Apocalypse, lead the way in designs for books to used for hundreds of years.
-Printed Text
-Use of color in text
-Transitional Type
-Monster Type from England open up a new door in font designs
-Metal vs Wood

The first lecture was very inspirational for me because I'm a big fan of Slab Serif and seeing how the design of how that certain type was formed, made me appreciate the style even more. Having taken latin in high school it was nice to have a refresher on the Roman alphabet and the road it paved for communication outside spoken words. Its cool to see how hand written font had left the picture and designers became engineers more than artist. The different methods of creating a type face with all the different grids shows how much we have progressed in modern times and how that impacts the fonts we can produce with computers as compared to just hand drawn, well hand drawn everything. I find that early men were ahead of their time in the idea of communicating and a shadow has been put over that time period and haven't been lifted. Just my thoughts.