We have a large focus on Germany and the progression of the printing press with its effects on culture, such as certain people's jobs. It goes over the printing press moving from just letters to illustrations as well. We see the beginning of marketed and mass produced advertising with broadsides, small slips of paper that would sometimes tell the news of town events or stories. It was called the Incunabula period.
2.Name the one thing (or person) you found most interesting from the reading.
Albrecht Durer is by far the most interesting thing/person from this reading. This is a man that brought better, truer detail to illustration, making it possible for even those illiterate masses to comprehend the message of a text just by looking at his pictures.
3.State at least one question you have after the reading.
What exactly does crible mean?
1. Name of graphic style (or topic) studied this session:
Incunabula.
2. Describe specific qualities of this style (or if it’s a topic-highlights of that topic) that will help you identify it in the future.
Specific qualities of the incunabula period of typographic style includes: illustrations being paired with texts, the "old style" transition from handwritten fonts to more mechanized type, and the beginnings of using written word as advertising.
3. What is the most useful or meaningful thing you learned today?
I learned that the printing press was a very, very, very infinitely important invention. It helped to get more of the masses literate, more informed, and therefore more intelligent. This led humanity to have the kind of "enlightened"/informed societies that it does today starting with revolutions against Kings and tyrants (i.e. French revolution).
We're shown the things like the Rhino and the Apocalypse with Albrecht Durer, but the book doesn't really explain the purpose of them. What were these detailed pictures for?
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