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Sunday 9 January 2011

ITAP LECTURE 9 PRODUCTION for VISUAL COMMUNICATION





When and how was the first ever book in Europe printed?



The Diamond Sutra was and indian text translated from sanskrit to chinese in about AD400.
Sutra the word comes from sanskrit and is the ancient and very sacred language of indian, the meaning of is that it's a religious teaching.

The Diamond Sutra was made in seven sections, each that were printed from a single block. The text would have been painted on thin paper the pasted onto a wooden block face down. Then the block carver followed the reversed shapes of the characters from the original block.


Page from the Diamond Sutra



Which do I consider to be the ten key developments in the production of graphic work? Why?


1. Paper making machine invented by Nicolas-Loius Robert


2. colour scanner invented by kodak 


3. Inkjet printing announced by IBM


4. Flash memory invented by Fujio


5. Adobe illustrator launched 


6. Adobe Photoshop launched


7. First Power PC Macs launched


8. Internet Explorer released by Microsoft 


9. Adobe indesign and PressReady launched


10. Apple OS X launched

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