11/1 1st class

Ideas-
          -Designers are all connected.
          -Art gets better as life gets better.
Words to Know-
          -xylography:woodblock printing
          
          -ligature-2 characters characters designed to work/fit together
           
          -incunabula-the first 50 years of printing
          -fleurons-cast decorative elements
          
Facts-
          -death books- on the art of dying
          -invent of printing
                    -growing middle class
                              -spending money
                    -students in expanding universities
                              -literature classes
                    -increased literacy
                    -demand
Johann Gutenberg-
          
          -movable type mid 1400's
                    -modifies wine press
                    -formulates ink
                    -finds a way to cast letters
                    -comes up with alloy
                    -type: blackletter: textura: gothic
           -taught secret process for making mirrors
Aesop Fables
           -negative space/no border around pic
The Nuremberg Chronicle
           
           -world history up until 1943
           -pre sketches of layout