A Primer of Symbol Terms. Early Writing Evolves from Pictures. Evolution of the Roman letterform. 8th Century, The Carolingian letter. Blackletter or the Gothic Letterform. Britain and the American Colonies. Tech Advances in Type Making. 4 A Short History of Books. The Materials of Book Construction.

Tuesday, July 1, 2008. Polynesian art was used only for decoration and was symbolic for mythological significance. Objects from different Islands have found to be unique. In Tahiti it was simple wooden and stone images that had no pattern as on Easter Island, where as, in Rorotonga, the human statues were stylised and generic. In Samoa the only decoration is normally two narrow bands around an artwork. A point to remember is all around Polynesia most patterns have human figures as a basis.

Friday, July 17, 2009. 1923, Coco Chanel said to. He designed simple, comfortable and revealing. Unlike most designers in that Europe, she kept the woman inside the c. Lothes at the center of her creations. Lace, corsets, underclothes, padding. Sunday, June 28, 2009.

Over the next few weeks, Product Design and Transportation Design students at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India will be investigating the history of design on this blog . Sunday, October 19, 2008. The Key to the Alternate Present. Manfred first discusses how we got here. How important was the journey here? Well we chose to follow Machiavelli and thus came up with concepts for our social, political and economical concerns. But take the world we live in.

Tuesday, April 21, 2009. Blog Posting for April 24th - Piet Zwart Project, Process Blog. Above is a thumbnail of the main poster I am working on screen printing. Often not limiting a work for only two or three fonts, he frequently used endless amounts. Tuesday, March 24, 2009. Piet Zwart, part zwei.