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●Introduction

●First Things First Manifesto (original)

●01/18/01: Contemporary Overview

●01/23/01: Contemporary Overview 2

●01/25/01: From Pre-print to Incunabula

●01/30/01: Incunabula through Renaissance

●02/01/01: to 1800s

●02/06/01: The Half History

●02/08/01: Mass Medium

●Font comparison

●02/13/01: Art/craft/career

●02/22/01: Through New and Nouveau

●03-06-01: Rumors of war

●03-20-01: Modernizing

●03-22-01: The Avant-Garde through The Ring

●03-29-01: Bauhaus

●04-17-01: The International Style, The Many Moderns

●04-19-01: Home growing

●04-24-01: 50s, 60s, 70s

●04-26-01: Public messages, private meanings

●05-01-01: The beginning was the end

●05-03-01: The next (big) thing(s)

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01/25/01: Pre-press to Incunabula (1)

Lascaux cave painting

evolution of Western alphabets

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Chinese scroll (vertical reading)

Diamond Sutra: oldest complete printed book 868AD

Chinese movable types c. 1300BC

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Korean metal type book (coincident w/Gutenberg)

Kufic script, approx. 1000AD: Koran

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Koran: 1490s (Turkey)

next

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monumental capitals, Roman tomb

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Uncials, half-

uncials, Caroline miniscules

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The Book of Durrow, 680

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Douce Apocalypse, 1265

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Ars

Moriendi, 1466, block-book next

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