History of Visual Communication

1. Creation of the Phylogenetic Alphabet

1.1. The various theories for origin of the Phoenician alphabet is cuneiform or independent creation

1.2. The principle of the Phoenician alphabet is based one sign represents one spoken sound

1.3. The trade culture of the Phoenician merchants spread

2. Cuneiform and the Sumerians

2.1. The sumerians choose the sumer to settle because of its fertile ground

2.2. Cuneiform began as a series of pictograms

3. Book Notes

3.1. The codex is covered and bound collection of handwriten pages

3.2. Roman handwriting changed by adding lowercase letters and punctuation

3.3. The Dark Ages was the time period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the Renaissanance

4. Gutenberg Press

4.1. Johannes Gutenberg introduced modern book printing

4.2. He introduced the modern printing press

5. Cave Painting

5.1. A cave painting is a beautiful, detailed and colorful representations found on the inside of cave walls and ceilings

5.1.1. several common themes are bison,horses, deer

5.1.1.1. famous cave painting site is the Lascaux

6. Hieroglyphics

6.1. The concept did scholars believe influenced Egyptian hieroglyphics is the concept of expressing words in writing

6.2. A logogram are visual symbols representing ideas or objects

6.3. The books of dread were usually commissioned by the users themselves before death

6.4. Hieroglyphics were a formal writing system that contained a combination of logographic and alphabetic elements

7. Linotype Machine

7.1. Christopher Sholes invented the only typewriter that became commercially successful

7.2. Clephane was looking for that led to the inventions of the typewriter and the Linotype machine were ways to improve the process

7.3. The first Linotype machine was installed in The New York Tribune