My name is Morgan Jeong. I’m from California and my personality fits the total Californian girl cliche. I love to explore all sorts of food and I love to shop. My hobbies include painting and playing multiple instruments.
COMD1167 Type & Media, SP2018
This is a foundation course in typography with an emphasis on using type for a multiple of industry related applications.
I Love Tyography
- Fun with FontsToday I launched two short multiple choice quizzes. The first starts at the beginning with Gutenberg, with questions about his life and his famous Bible. Some of the questions are pretty easy; others you might find rather difficult. The second game, Glorious Glyphs, tests your font identification chops by having you identify individual characters or […]
- Granjon’s Beautiful BastardWhen books began to be printed in the fifteenth century, scribes were not immediately redundant. The rich still commissioned them to produce deluxe manuscripts, governments and local authorities still required secretaries and copyists for administrative documents, and even printed books left spaces for decorated initials and other elements to be added in by hand. What’s […]
- The Most Dangerous Book in the WorldOn a cold morning in early autumn of 1536, in a small town on the outskirts of Brussels, William Tyndale was led from a tiny prison cell, then chained to a stake, strangled and burned. His crime? Daring to challenge the Catholic Church and his insistence on translating the Bible into English. Tyndale’s translation was […]
- Medieval Road-trips & the Invention of PrintWe don’t know for sure what prompted Hans Gensfleisch to leave his hometown of Mainz in western Germany for Strasbourg in the south but leave he did, probably in the early 1430s. Founded in the first century BC by the Romans, under emperor Augustus, Mainz had for a time, after the construction of its cathedral […]
- Printed Pandemic: Plague BooksThe Black Death of the fourteenth century, a disease named after the symptomatic boils and darkened skin caused by internal bleeding, claimed as many as 200 million lives. Even by the fifteenth century, when populations were just beginning to recover, outbreaks of the same plague were still regularly reoccurring throughout Europe. Header image: Detail from […]
- From Farting to Fornication: Early print censorshipDuring the first half-century of printing in Europe (c. 1450–1500), there were few restrictions on the printing trade, either on who could start a print-shop or on what they chose to print. As new printers rushed to establish themselves and cash-in on this new technology, they sometimes sought protection in the form of privileges. The first […]
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January 31, 2018 at 9:01 pm
Morgan, thanks for sharing and welcome to the class.