The History of Chinese Scripts and Printing
Project Rationale: For this project, I dove into the history of typography in China and their evolution in printing. I wanted to display the different materials Chinese was written on or printed with as a texture on each shelf. One of the most prominent things to me when I did my research on Bi Sheng and his invention of movable type was the countless shelves of little printing blocks printing shops had to own. I chose to depict the different artifacts in a shelf like format here to mimic this and have the reader’s eye follow from top to bottom. An illustration of Bi Sheng holds a printed book as the result of this evolution of typography in one hand and one of his printing blocks in the other.
I would give myself an 8/10 for this project. While in a poster format like this, I may have crammed too much information into the piece, I am very happy with the combination of material and information on typography I conveyed through the piece. Even at a quick glance, the infographic is interesting to look at and should draw a viewer in for a better look.