In the reading, Ellen Lupton talks about a lot of different typefaces, type designers, type designs, and type movements you may not have heard of before (for example: lettera antica, the romain du roi, monster fonts, avant-garde and abstract type, early digital type, the Bauhaus, and De Stijl). Find out more about one of these (or choose something else from the reading) and write 2 paragraphs about it—pretend you are telling someone who has no idea about graphic design. Post 2 images that you think best illustrate what you are researching. Categorize your post as Blog HW#2.
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This documentary “The Printed Word” was quite interesting. Although it spoke about the difference or change in culture between actual books and new age products such as kindles and other ways to read them. I really don’t think that I will completely change the everything because there are still so many people that like to pick up and actual book regardless of it’s weight or the space it may take up in a book bag or purse. Sure these are all factors to consider when traveling and saving space but yea there are way too many people out there that prefer to keep it “old school”. In the video there were many older people in bookstores discussing this and pointing out the fact that it’s not the same. My favorite part is where the girl keeps smelling the books as if she was really appreciating the smell of the book (made me chuckle) at first the I realized she may be right. The other gentleman took a whiff of his kindle and when he was asked what he smelled he replied “plastic” haha that was funny. Anyhow yea I really think that there will always be actual books around.