Graphic Design History Terms Essay Example
Graphic Design History Terms Essay Example

Graphic Design History Terms Essay Example

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  • Published: April 5, 2017
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  1. Key Terms (in order of appearance; the first page number of their appearance is listed)
  2. Illuminated manuscript, page 42: the vibrant luminosity of gold leaf, as it reflected light from the pages of handwritten books, gave the sensation of the page being illuminated
  3. Gold leaf, page 42: the preferred application method was hammering the gold into a fine sheet of gold leaf and applying it over an adhesive ground.
  4. Scriptorium, page 42: nearly all books were written in this writing room
  5. Scrittori, page 42: a well-educated scholar who understood Greek and Latin and functional as both editor and art director, with overall responsibility of design and production of the manuscript
  6. Copisti, page 42: was a production letterer, who spent his days bent over a writing table penning pages
  7. Illuminator, page 42; a illustrator, did the ornament work and images in visual support wit
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  8. Colophon, page 42: is the inscription usually at the end of a manuscript
  9. Musical notation, page 42 marks were gradually used to denote pauses and pitch changes for chants.
  10. Frontispiece, page 43:Literary souces refer to manuscripts on vellum, with portait of the author as frontispiece
  11. Ascenders, page 44: stokes raising above the top guideline
  12. Descenders, page 44: strokes dropping below the baseline
  13.  Carpet pages, page 45, (Fig. 4-6):a full page of decorative design
  14. Interlace, page 45, was a two-dimensional decoration formed by a number of ribbons or straps woven into a complex, unusually symmetrical design
  15. Lacertines, page 45: interlace created by animal forms.
  16. Diminuendo, page 45, : created by the monks, which are graphic design principles, which is a decreasing scale of graphic information
  17. Labyrinth page, page 52, :
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which modestly ask the reader to remember the unworthy Florentius

  •  Textura, page 54, : from the Latin texture, meaning woven fabric or textures, is the favor name for this dominate mode of Gothic lettering
  • Haggadot, page 56, : Is one of 11 known illuminated manuscripts created by the politic artist and scribe joel be simeon, who worked in Northern Italy and Germany during the late fifteenth century
  • Qur’an or Koran, page 56: Muhammad's teachings, religious, social, and civil life in Islamic societies
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