Creation of the Phonetic Alphabet

The Phoenician Alphabet

The Greek Alphabet

The Roman Alphabet

1) The phoenician alphabet was successful because the trading culture of the phoenician merchants spread the use of the alphabet into parts of north africa and europe.

2) The “social structure” of a civilization is somewhat like a social status or social ranking. (lower class, middle class, etc.)

3) The Roman alphabet was most widely used because  it evolved from the Greek Alphabet. The contributions it made were the serifs that was use today, the baseline (where most letters sit.), and the descender (letters that are placed below the baseline.)

4) The phoenician alphabet has different symbols that stand for certain words. The Greek Alphabet letter a couple of them are used in science and math. The Roman Alphabet is just like ours except they have symbols for the letters (multiple symbols).

 

Secrets of The Rosetta Stone

Rating: 3

The movie was interesting yet boring in my opinion. I think the interesting part was when they used the rosetta stone to decipher other languages and writings. The video

Hieroglyphics and Egyptians

Hieroglyphics in a tomb

 

Hieroglyphics in a temple

 

Hieroglyphics on papyrus

 

Cuneiform and the sumerians

This is the Summerians early cuneiforms. This one is simple. The writing is spaced out and larger then the other writings.

This is the sumerians evolved cuneiform. The writing is smaller and fitted tightly on the page. This also looks more elaborate then the other one.

This is the Akkadian Cuneiform. Its very detailed and the cuneiform itself is tiny looking. Looks neater then the other forms of cuneiform.

1. Nomadic civilization- Well, nomadic people are communities of people who move from one place to another,  instead of staying in one place.

2. The Sumerians used a visual form of communication to  keep track of business transactions.

3. Sumerians “wrote” records by wetting the clay, forming it into flat surfaces, an creating a wedge shaped stylus made from reeds to make impressions into the clay surface. Then the clay was put outside in the sun to dry. The medium used was clay.

4.A pictogram is an ideogram that conveys its meaning through its pictorial resemblance to a physical object. An ideograph is a graphic symbol that represents an idea or concept. A pictograph  uses pictures or symbols to represent an amount of data.

Cave paintings

This Cave Painting is found in Lascaux, France.

This cave painting is located in Chauvet.

 

This cave painting is located in the Altamira.

 

• A  cave painting is a beautiful detailed and colorful representations found on the inside of cave walls and ceilings.
• Prehistoric man created cave paintings by creating paint and paint brushes.
• There are three main reasons to why the cave men created cave paintings. 1- Is to tell a story. 2-an instructional visual aid to teach hunting techniques. 3-Magical religious reasons

Assignment #2

Fair Use-taking bits and pieces of someone elses work without breaking the law.

This photo shows fair use because  obviously the raccoon is about to steal someone elses work . I believe the audience this picture is directed towards is designers. (since they probably deal with fair use other than any other profession.

Assignment #13

 

 

This design is intended to be for younger children because of the alphabet and different shapes that you can find to create the alphabet. Letters found in the house, at the park, even at my job.

Shepard Fairey

In class we discussed Shepard Fairey and if he was wrong for being inspired by someone elses work. In my own opinion i don’t think he should be charged because Im sure everyone on this planet earth has copyrighted or plagiarized once in their life and when Shepard Fairey desides to make this amazing looking piece he gets charged. I’m pretty sure every artist in the world has copyrighted or plagiarized at least once in their lifetime. Its not like Shepard Fairey kept the money he recieved from the piece.

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