Blog One

The last two types of writing styles by the Egyptians influenced and led to a common alphabet. Hieratic and demotic became a model for other cultures such as the Sumerians and their adopted letter forms Asia also contributed greatly to type, but in more of a technical way. They established the first relief printing, a system for movaype although it wasn't succesfully impletmented ) and the invention of paper. So the credit goes to the chinese to developing the technologies for Gutenburg to create movable type. It was actually the greeks that began to look at alaphabet ina pure form. they brought structure and order through geometry. Being able to break the alaphabet down into simple forms so that it is readable is essential in the design world. As presented later on in the lecture designer went back to the basic greek geometric forms and eradicated the ornate calligraphic style. I feel the universally this would be visually pleasing to a mulitude of cultures.