Chapter 7

1.Sum up the reading in your own words in 1 paragraph.

Chapter 7 dealt with the Renaissance. It focused on the rebirth of design in general including innovations in things like page layouts, books, geometric proportions and illustrations. The chapter went over key influential figures or "Renaissance men" such as Ratdolt, Griffo and Tory. People that offered new thought to things like typeface, pages in books, ect..

2.Name the one thing (or person) you found most interesting from the reading.

Geoffery Tory, the famous French all around artist that came later during the Renaissance period. How could he not be interesting? He was a prodigy! Translator, poet, publisher, ect.. It was also interesting that he believed letter forms were created by God because any letter with a crossbar covered the form of a man

3.State at least one question you have after the reading.

1. Name of graphic style (or topic) studied this session:

The graphic innovations of the Renaissance era.

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.

The Renaissance gave us a better use of combining illustrations and text in order to educate(as seen with Ratdolt and using drawings to better explain geometry). It also gave us a bigger variety of typefaces(for example, Griffo's itallics).

3. What is the most useful or meaningful thing you learned today?


It is very useful to know about not just the Renaissance men described in the book (Ratdolt, Manutius, ect.) but also the people that worked under/with them. I think a lot of influential people from the past never really got credit for a lot of things because their thoughts and ideas were attributed to the wealthy men they worked for.