Status Updates From The Book of Books: 500 Year...

Library find! A book the size of my torso containing scans of a particular Amsterdam university's collection of rare books (and is thus eurocentric,) I'm admiring not only the chronology of printing it shows, but also how we DIDN'T get it right and how the fonts & typesets that we take for granted today were, in fact, the product of hundreds of years of trial and error.

AbsoluFabulous! Visual feast for everything you want to know about the making of the print. If Gutenberg can only know what his invention of the printing press lead to.

Modernism:



Postmodernism:

Hilarious web page, "You're a Comic Sans Criminal. We're here to help you."

http://comicsanscriminal.com

I'm saying Terrific a lot today. Letting my automatic pilot take over. Glad I'm even taking the time to update my book reads because fate is taking me away from the literary world back into the visual world.

Lithography, which greatly increased the flexibility of the printing process. Then photography and photolithography, colotype, etc. Movements of the early 20th century with the Futurists, Dadalists, Constructivists, etc.

The 18th Century has some of the most beautiful books and types, especially from the French, Redouté's gorgeous flower prints with Didot's fonts, and the Description de l'Egypte with numerous drawings by artists detailing everything seen during the voyage into Egypt as part of Napoleon's Egyptian campaign (1798-1801).

The 18th Century has some of the most beautiful books and types, especially from the French, Redouté's gorgeous flower prints with Didot's fonts, and the Description de l'Egypte with numerous drawings by artists detailing everything seen during the voyage into Egypt as part of Napoleon's Egyptian campaign (1798-1801).

The Dutch Golden Age:

A tolerant attitude helped to expand printing attracting people from varying areas. Banned authors from other areas, such as Descartes and Spinoza were able to publish freely. Increase in variety of topics.

Finished with the Decoration and Illustration chapter, and the French influence with type having more of an ornate flair. Interesting about emblem books, which contained pictures with multiple interpretations, poetry, then prose with explanation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emblem_book

I've seen people embed images in here. Let's see...
Luca Paciolli, Divina proportione, Leonardo Da Vinci was one of the illustrators

We take books for granted, but during the 1400's and 1500's, a printer spends a career producing only around 100-150 books. BTW, Aldus Manutius came up with the italics.

We take books for granted, but during the 1400's and 1500's, a printer spends a career producing only around 100-150 books. BTW, Aldus Manutius came up with the italics..

We take books for granted, but during the 1400's and 1500's, a printer spends a career producing only around 100-150 books. BTW, Aldus Manutius came up with the .

Love it! Which naturally led me to search for all the scans or prints of these books such as Hypnerotomachia, English translation can be found with illustrations here, file:///Users/thoatsey/Downloads/Hypn... and The Nuremberg Chronicle, http://www.beloit.edu/nuremberg/book/...

This book goes to the chase about the development of type, no extra words wasted, then moves on to most magnificent pages of samples of that period when Johannes Gutenberg opened the first printing office. Starting on the pages of beautiful samples from the 1471 to 1499. Can't wait to read and look at them. It's great knowing the range from art, graphics art to literature. I love the dots in my curve.Type beauty!

This gorgeous book came in today! I need to make time for graphics fun.