Design History (week 3)

This week we watch a movie called "Typeface" and talk about chapters 9 and 10 in our book "Meggs' History of Graphic Design". In these two chapters we talked about graphic design - the industrial revolution. (And) The arts and crafts movement.

What got my interest was the photography section. I looked up the definition of photography and it says that "the art or practice of taking and processing photographs".

Joseph Niepce was the first person who produced photographic images. His first picture on the left is nice, but a little confusing and hard to look at. When I first saw this pictures I wasn't sure what it was... but look like some kind of view. So when I read about this pictures I know what I am looking at. In this picture its a view looking out at a courtyard. Some of the shadows we see are a tree, house, barn and a chimney.

Another images I found interesting was actually made into a motion picture. Eadweard Muybridge, plate published in "The Horse in Motion" in 1883. It's amazing how he took some pictures of the horse at the same spot, but the the horse's movement was different every time. I just enjoy old fashion pictures & motion pictures.