cp-blog entry

I recently completed a specialist project concerning the history of type. In the brief for the project i was asked to produce a timeline on an a3 poster to show the evolution of  movable type, from its introduction by Johannes Gutenberg to print the first book, to the present digital printing age. I however decided to stray slightly from the brief as i thought that only including from that date didn't truly represent why type and print came into existence; through religion and the spread of written and spoken word. I decided to start my time line a lot earlier with the introduction of the first written symbols used to visualise written word, the Egyptian hieroglyphs four and a half thousand years earlier to be exact! I then carried on from their noting the Greek and Roman alphabets, and the spread of theese through europe due to conquest and the spread of christianity, forcing the roman alphabet even to the Americas and southeast Asia. I think through this different older perspective my timeline is alot more complete and shows the whole picture of how printed word came to be.