Overall the project was a nice practice in coding in html despite having trouble remembering how to do certain things. Most of the time in the IDEA program, we worked on internal CSS and other web ux/ui building programs when we worked with code. But in general it wasn’t too different from what we learned to do in IDEA, however there were sites that I never expected using such as bootstrap. As well as working in atom and then uploading into filezilla was a hassle to deal with, since we had to constantly go back and forth, but understanding it was necessary in order to get everything working made it feel less monotonous.
The blogging service I have chosen to post through, is the website “Wix”. Why Wix? The biggest reason for choosing to create a blog post on Wix is because it is a blogging service that is advertised as easy and ready to use. While creating our website and thinking about our blogs, we thought about condensing our wants into the fewest points we could. This led us to prioritize simplicity, convenience and saving time, and we believed that Wix was the better option towards completing our goal.
S e a g u l l
We thought that simplicity is the best way to go design wise so as to not overwhelm people with information. The most convenient blog site that we could utilize was Wix, however it was a slight pain to have to create an account for it if we don’t use it again in the future. Saving time is a huge goal since the quicker we work on some things the more time we have to problem solve other things.
“Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evils.”–Plato, The Republic, 4th century B.C. Great Ideas of Western Man. (1955)
Egbert Jacobson, the mysterious man of the CCA. Nothing much is really known about him other than the fact that he published a book called “Basic Colour” as well as being one of the art directors of the CCA.
Egbert Jacobson is a man born in New York in 1980, he died in Clearwater, Florida of 1966. He began working with the CCA in 1936 as a director of design, Walter Paepcke sought him out due to his status as a leader in colour theory and typography. With Egbert as a director, he commissioned many well known artists to design the company’s national ads.
“Basic Color” (1948)
It was said that as a director of design Egbert dealt with logos, stationary, invoices, annual reports, advertising, company office interiors, factories, and trucks. Along with this, in 1947 according to a family, Egbert designed a house at 850 Roaring Fork Drive, in Aspen.
During 1951, Egbert and Herbert Bayer got Walter Paepcke to create what would become the International Design Conference in Aspen. This became an event where designers could discuss the current situations in the world of graphic design. In the end, Egbert retired from the CCA after 30 long years of working for them in 1956.
The comic industry of current day is barely thriving as a source of entertainment. For this topic, there have been many reasons that have been speculated to be the cause of this decline. However, in my presentation, I will be attempting to answer the question of why the modern age of comics are currently in decline as well as why other similar mediums are much more successful. In particular these would be comic book movies, graphic novels, and Japanese manga. Doing research for this topic will be quite interesting due to the fact that most of the studies and research for this topic are generally not a scholarly article. As well as the fact that my other question is more of a broader and open ended question. One of the driving forces of why I want to delve into this discussion is because of the fact that I was never able to see this for myself. What I mean by this is that it was brought to my attention by youtube video essays, and people around the community. However the specifics and the cause of it all is never completely accurate from one person to another, and so I felt compelled to research this topic. Furthermore, there is also the fact that this is an industry that I love and respect, and to see its’ success dwindle is very hard for me to wrap my head around, especially because this industry has been around for so long.
On the topic of typography, I will help guide you along the ways of how the Chinese language has been spread out over the years. The Chinese typography, or writing system has been around for almost 6,000 years, and therefore has had much time to grow and refine itself.
One such way of growing would be the transition from using traditional chinese to simplified. However the traditional language has not completely died off yet, as people still use the traditional language today. Simplified chinese was officially adopted in 1949 in an attempt to educate everyone and make sure that no one was illiterate.
Chinese Calligraphy
Chinese has also grown to reach other countries as well through the influence of Buddhism. Some common languages that use Chinese would be Japanese, Korean, as well as other branches of Chinese dialect. In the past Vietnamese, Dungan, Zhuang had used Chinese in their alphabets.
The focus of this article will be Japanese Kanji, and Korean Hanja, as these two are arguably the most prevalent in modern day society.
Japanese Kanji
In Japan, the use of Chinese characters began in the 5th century and was first introduced to them from Korea. This subsequently caused Japan to have three different alphabets to learn. In Kanji, each character has their own definition as well as their own corresponding words. Something that Kanji has similar to Chinese would be that their characters can have multiple meanings depending on how you use the characters. For an example we can use the character 日 (ni) which is the first half of Japan, as well as the meaning of “day”.
Korean Hanja
For Korea, the use of Chinese characters began with the spread of Buddhism, however the text that introduced Koreans to Hanja was not related to religion, but instead the “Cheonjamun” otherwise known as the “Thousand Character Classic”. Early on, Koreans had to learn traditional Chinese in order to properly articulate their words, later on however, they were able to develop new systems that used simplified Chinese which “phonetically transcribed to Korean”. As of 1980, however, it is more so used by the older generation as Hanja was effectively replaced by Hangul. Many words borrowed from Chinese as well have been replaced by native Korean words
