Visual Communication

1. Cuneiform and Sumerians

1.1. Sumerains

1.1.1. culture ran by the priest, made vases and paintings, music was important

1.1.1.1. Cuneiform was created to help with business transactions

1.1.1.1.1. created a series of pictograms

1.2. Cuneiform

1.2.1. evolved over time and became more abstract

2. History of Computers

2.1. Konard Zuse was credited for the first programmable computer

2.2. IBM made the first high level language converter

2.3. Space War was the first computer game

2.4. Douglas Englebart created the mouse

2.5. First memory disk was called The Floppy Disc

3. Linotype Machine

3.1. Christopher Sholes made the first typewriter

3.1.1. He realized these people would be the firt users: stenographers

3.2. Clephane tested Shole's typewriter

3.2.1. He said to use a entire line of metal type at once

3.3. Linotyoe got it's name from tjat it used the entire line of metal at once

3.4. Slug: an assembled line of type that is then cast as a single piece

4. Cave Paintings

4.1. What is a "cave painting"?

4.1.1. beautiful paintings found on the inside of caves

4.1.2. Bison, horses and deer were the main pictures found

4.2. created from water, plant juice, animal blood, and soil

4.3. brushes were made of stones, sticks and animal hair

4.4. Lascaux is the most famous cave painting

5. Photography

5.1. Known to scholars and philosophers as a way to observe light

5.2. Camera Obscura: Optical device that projects an image of surrounding onto a screen

5.3. 1st successful photograph created by: Joseph Niepce

5.4. Calotype process by: William Fox

6. The Gutenberg Press

6.1. developed from the screw-type for pressing grapes and olive seeds

6.1.1. Later on, he started experimenting with metal typography