History of Graphic Design

July 22nd, 2010 by Novi | Posted under Article.

Graphic design evolved rapidly in line with the historical development of human civilization as found in writing and printing machines. Travel design and style of the Latin alphabet began to be applied in the early heyday of the Roman Empire. Glory of the Roman empire in the first century who managed to conquer Greece, bringing a new civilization in Western history with diadaptasikannya literary, artistic, religious, and brought the Latin alphabet from the Greeks. At first the Latin alphabet consists of only 21 letters: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, C, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, V, and X, Y and Z are then added in the Latin alphabet to accommodate a word derived from Greek. Three additional letters J, U and W are included in the total number of medieval Latin alphabet to 26.

When the college was first established in Europe in the early second millennium, the book becomes a very high-demand needs. Print technology have not been found at the time, so that a book should be copied by hand. It is said that for copying a book can take many months. In order to meet the demanding needs of the various books that copying is increasing and to accelerate the work of the copyists (scribes), it gives birth Blackletter Script letters, lowercase form created with the form of thin-thick and thin. Efficiency can be supplied via form letter because ketipis tebalannya can accelerate the work of writing. In addition, with advantage of the beautiful and slender, these letters can ditulisakan in greater numbers than one page of the book.

Source: Typography in Graphic Design, Danton SIH Jakarta in 2001; The Visual Dictionary of Graphic Design, Gavin Amborse & Paul Harris, London 2006