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Lecture Topics 2007


Professor Nancy Stock-Allen

Topics/Lectures

 Meggs
4th Ed

Studio/Activity
Additional Reading Assignment

1.18 Lecture 1: Symbols |How and What They Communicate
 4–41,
397–423

Download "Symbols: The Alphabet of Human Thought"

1.25

Lecture 2: How Handwriting Developed & How was Translated into Type by Early Printers

for quiz 42–77

Read "Design Writing Research"
Click here for suggested sites for both historical and current information about Graphic Design. 2.1 Lecture 3: Typographical Milestones 1460 — 1800

 

Cutting Quills and Calligraphic Letterform Workshop
View type casting steps on the web

2.8

Lecture 4: A Short History of the Book
1501 – 1880

 for quiz
78 - 124

• The British Library's Digital Collection of Early Manuscripts   
• The Nuremberg Chronicle

2.15

Lecture 5: The Private Press Movement

 

• Visit MIT's site
The Kelmscott Chaucer
2.22
Double Session Class

Field Trip | University of Pennsylvania
Schedule:
10 am
Penn Letterpress
205 S. 34th Street (between Walnut & Spruce) Basement of the Morgan Building
(old brick building with front porch, east side of street)

Lunch 12:00 -1:00

1:15
Van Pelt Library
Rare Books and Manuscripts Department
3420 Walnut Street
Leave aprox. 3:15

3.1

Lecture 6: Typographical Milestones 1800—2000
Research topics assigned

 Check list for your research assignment
3.8

Spring Break

3.15 No class as announced for 2.22 trip Continue research assignment
3.22 Lecture 7: History of Posters
222–268, 287–331

 

3.29

 Lecture 8: The 20th Century Avant-Garde and its Impact on Graphic Design. 336–381

The Crystal Goblet, Beatrice Ward

 

 

Contents of this web site©2006 and cannot be reproduced or distributed without permission of the author.		 4.5

Lecture 9: The Bauhaus

 
4.12 Lecture 10: The Origins of Advertising 467–530 Review Web page specifications
4.19 Quiz: Date Change Requested by the "Moore Four" Lectures 5 — 9 Covers all items highlighted in orange background

384–398

  
4.26
 Lecture 11: New Wave, Post Modern, Post Industrial & Deconstructionists, Etc. Defined Report to class on your research project.
5.9

Final Web files due
Website upload by appointment room 302