Principles
- From novice to expert
- The experts
From novice to expert
You can have all of the text book knowlage in the world but you are still a novice, because to become an expert you need to have actualy done these things that you read about. Its all about the experience and getting your hands dirty as it were. Take "the diamond of sutra" this is the oldest book in the world first printed in 868AD and was printed by using silk screens and wooden blocks, as a human race we have learnt over thousands of years how to make and print books, from the 1400's where the koreans were printing with metal movable type all the way up to 1976 where IBM created the first inkjet printer. With all this experiance and getting our hands dirty we have managed to create so much.
The experts
These are people who are in no way novices because they have been doing what they do for manny years and have been through almost every process, however this does not make you finished you can never stop learning and this is whats amazing about the human race because as i have shown, from the first book being printed to the PDF version 1.7 becoming released in 2008 we are always evolving and learning. But some "experts" are "zuzana licko" who works mainly with type and has created manny of her own typefaces one of the things she has said is, "Integrating design and production, the computer has reintroduced craft as inspiration" which basically means everyone uses the computer to find their insperation and not as a tool as much as it used to be, photoshop wasn't launched till 1990, but people designed using the computer before hand, so we mustn't rely compleatly on computers. To tie in with that quote "Hubert Drafuse" once qestioned if machines would one day be better than man, and if we always use the internet as a source of inspiration he will be right.
Task
Here are a few dates that i feel were very relevant to the production in visual communication, 3500bc: summerians use cuneiform alphabet on clay tablets, 105AD: paper invented in china by Ts' ai Lun, 1400: Koreans priniting with metal movable type, 1798: papermaking machine invented by nicolas-Louise Robert, 1948: coulor scanner invented by Kodak, 1971: email invented by ray tomilinson of BBN, 1976: inkjet printing announced by IBM, 1990: adobe photoshop launched, 1992: Tim Berners-lee of CERN develops software for the world wid web (WWW), 1995: Windows 95 released.
Yes its another update on my skills sketchbook, lately ive been swamped with uni work so i havnt had much chance to do some designs in my own time but just before i thought id be able to have time to do one another project from uni arives, so once again im swamped and more than usual this time because ive got to create an artist book, which is kinda what my skills sketchbook is but it dosnt really relate to birmingham so i doubt il be able to use it. Anyway recently ive been looking at "David Shrigleys" work if your not familiar with it il put a link in at the bottom, but if you are youl know that his work is alot of badly drawn line drawings, but the thing that i love about it is the fact that his work is so funny, this i thought would be an amazing chance to learn something from his work so, here we have my latest piece called "Calm down".
