Graphic Design 1 – Week 1 – World Alphabets

Syllabus & Project Art_604_syllabus_Spring_2018 604_Project_1_revised       CLASS NOTES History of the Alphabet World Alphabets – quick sample Vedas – India ‘Dresden Codex’– Maya Heiroglyphics – Cartouche Examples – Egypt Trajan Column– Italy *Other examples of world alphabets/letterforms/logographics – Egyptian, Mayan, Sanskrit, Arabic, Thai, Russian, Chinese, Korean, Armenian The Alphabet that we us in…