ROUTE SYSTEMS PRECEEDING THE
VIZCOMM SUPERHIGHWAY


ANCIENT WORDS AND PICTURES

FRANCE - CAVE PAINTINGS 9-35,000 BC Syria recent -- Older than Lasceaux?
BAJA - CAVE PAINTINGS 1352 and 1512 AD
EGYPT - Hieroglyphs 3100 BC
MESAPOTAMIA - Cuneiform 3300-3000 BC

EARLY TYPOGRAPHY/
BOOK PRODUCTION METHODS

CHINA - . Taoism texts and objects 500-1900

KOREA - WORLD'S OLDEST metal type book 1300 or 1400's

Jikji is thought to be the world's oldest text printed with metal type. Printed in 1377, it predates by 78 years the Gutenberg Bible of Germany, which was also added to the Documentary Heritage list this year. Jikji, currently in the possession of the National Library of France in Paris, was printed at Heungdeoksa Temple in Cheongju, Chungcheongbuk-do province, Korea.

ARABIA - Qur'an Manuscript 1425-50

EUROPE/USA - GUTENBERG BIBLE 1454
.. . . . . . . . Johannes Gutenberg, Germany
.. . . . . . . . U-Florida's Rare Books 1400s-1900s
.. . . . . . . . Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones
.. . . . . . . . Cupid and Psyche in William Morris's
.. . . . . . . . unpublished Earthly Paradise

STYLES AND HISTORICAL PERIODS

MEDIEVAL/EARLY RENAISSANCE 400-1400
.. . . . . . . . ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS
.. . . . . . . . Leaf from a Missal, Paris • The Cloisters/Metropolitan Museum of Art
.. . . . . . . . ETHIOPIA early 15th century: Leaf from Illuminated Gospel
.. . . . . . . . Les très riches heures du Duc de Berry

RENNAISSANCE 1450's - 1550's
.. . . . . . . . Italian Painting, National Gallery
.. . . . . . . . Botticelli, Bellini, Di Vinci at ArtLex

ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT 1850-1900
.. . . . . . . . They considered machine production degrading to workers AND consumers
.. . . . . . . . Gray Cells' Arts and Crafts Movement Website • William Morris
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ART NOUVEAU 1894-1914

ART DECO
.. . . . . . . . Art Deco Society of New York
.. . . . . . . . Leonard Fox Rare Books

THE BAUHAUS 1919 - 1933
.. . . . . . . . Marcel Breuer

THE DADA MOVEMENT 1916-1923
.. . . . . . . . University of Iowa International Dada Archive

FUTURISM 1909-1944

POP ART 1950s-1960s Defined • Andy Warhol Museum • Examples at ArtLex

INTERNATIONAL TYPOGRAPHIC STYLE 1950s-1990s
.. . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . Swiss Design SINCE 1970s Poster Collection of Carnegie-Mellon

More Swiss Posters

ADVENT OF WEB AND MULTIMEDIA We discuss this topic later in the course!
.. . . . . . . . Meanwhile, for a good overview of emerging web styles visit Curt Cloninger's site

Motion Graphics

NOW, THIS MOMENT 2007
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum

Games

Interactive- Comcastic

Designer Gelaskins