Illuminated Manuscripts

The Designer Books Past to Present

By Ms. Urioste

During the 1450’s, known as the Medieval times in Europe,Johannes Gutenberg of Germany invented an revolutionary device called the Printing Press.

This invention made it possible for the common man to be able to afford books, and also changed the appearance of books to black print on white pages.

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Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea_scrolls

The Papyrus of Ani

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The Egyptians understood and practiced many of the timeless principles of Graphic Design.

They color coded their hieroglyphs, and the word for color was used as a synonym for “Essence” or “Character.”

Before paper: The Process of Bookmaking

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vellum

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Buddhist ManuscriptsThe artists personified the concept of power, faith,

charity, and male and female with their images.

Mayan artifacts are unique in their marriage of word and image

Dante before Gutenberg

Dante during Gutenberg

Dante in 1880’s

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Books of the Past are a guide, not a limitation, and not a destiny.

Jackson Pollock,

“The modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.” Valerie Kirschbaum writes in her

book Goodbye Gutenberg, “The Impressionists explored new realms of emotional experience, realms that been excluded by a unidimensional way of painting. Likewise, writers today will explore new realms of emotional experience, realms that until now have been excluded by a black and white, unidimensional, Gutenberg way of writing.”

http://www.goodbyegutenberg.com/