Typography: Task 1 Exercises
29/08/2022 - Ending Date / Week 1- Week 5 Hayato Saito / 0350466 /Bachelor Of Design In Creative Media Typography Task LECTURES Lecture 1: Development Early letterform development: Phoenician to Roman Fig. 1.1 Evolution from Phoenician Letter ・Writing at first involved using a sharpened stick to scratch wet clay or a chisel to carve stone. ・The type of writing that is produced is greatly influenced by the tool that we are using. Fig. 1.2 Direction of Writing ・Writing was done from right to left by Phoenicians and other Semitic peoples but the Greeks created a form of writing known as "boustrophedon," in which the lines of text alternately read from right to left and from left to right, and as they change the direction of reading they also changed the orientation of the letterform. ・Before carving letters into marble, Etruscan (and later Roman) carvers painted the letterforms. ・Some characteristics of their strokes such as a shift from vertical to ...