Typography - Task 1 Exercises
29/08/2022 - 29/09/2022 Jason Antony / 0356335 Typography / Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media / Taylors university Task 1: Exercise 1 & 2 LECTURES Lecture 1: Development 1. Early Letterform Development: Phoenician to Roman Writing was initially the scratching of sharpened sticks into wet clay or stones that were carved with chisels. Letterforms were largely derived from the tools and the medium of writing that were used to write. Fig. 1.1 Evolution from Phoenician Letter Writing direction - Phoenicians: Right to left. The Greeks: 'Boustrophedon’ (how the ox plows), read alternately from right to left and left to right. The same goes for the direction of the letterforms.