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Chapter 9: Graphic Design & the Industrial Revolution

By victoriaarob

  • The start of the Industrial Revolution.

    The start of the Industrial Revolution.
    A radical process of social and economic change which took place in England from 1760 to 1840.

  • Fat-face Type Design

    Fat-face Type Design
    Created by Robert Thorne. The contrast and weight were expanded by thickening the heavy strokes.

  • Egyptian Faces Type Design

    Egyptian Faces Type Design
    Created by Vincent Figgins.

  • Tuscan-style Type Design

    Created by Vincent Figgins. Serifs are extended and curved with bulges, cavities, and ornaments.

  • Sans-serif Type Design

    Sans-serif Type Design
    Created by William Caslon IV. The design is similar to the Egyptian Face type with the serif removed.

  • New York Printing Firm

    James and John Harper launched a New York printing firm which rapidly grew into the largest printing and publishing firm
    in the world.

  • Joseph Niepce

    Joseph Niepce
    A Lithographic printer; the first person who was able to produce a surviving photographic image.

  • Darius Wells

    Darius Wells
    An American printer who experimented with hand-carved wooden types. He created a lateral router that enabled the mass manufacturing of wood types for display printing.

  • William Leavenworth

    Combined the pantograph with the router, which made it easy to introduce new wood-type fonts.

  • Chromolithography

    Chromolithography
    Is the process of printing color pictures and lettering from stone or zinc printing plates.

  • "The Pencil of Nature"

    "The Pencil of Nature"
    Published by William Henry Fox Talbot, included twenty-four photographs in each issue, making it a milestone in the history of books.

  • Pictorial Magazine

    Pictorial Magazine
    The New York Printing firm opened the era of the pictorial magazine. (James and John Harper)

  • Lithography

    Lithography
    From 1860 to the 1900s, Lithography was the dominant printing
    medium for advertising posters.

  • Walter Crane

    Walter Crane
    Published Railroad Alphabet, which is a children's picture book that aimed to entertain instead of teaching. His inspiration came from the flat color and flowing contours of Japanese woodblock prints.

  • Brass Matrix

    Ottmar Mergenthaler, demonstrated his Linotype machine on
    July 3, 1886. The Linotype composed a line of type called brass matrix.

  • Minolta Camera

    Minolta Camera
    Camera created by George Eastman, which allowed ordinary citizens to create images to document life experiences.

  • Century Typeface

    Century Typeface
    Designed by Linn Boyd. Slightly extended, with thicker thin
    strokes and short slab serifs.