Screen-printing

All types of printing started with the Chinese invention of paper(100CE) and woodblock printing(200CE). Although the early years of print are intriguing, I’m focusing more on the beginning of advertising with graphics and beyond. In my opinion, this was the beginning of modern graphic design. There are many printing styles to choose from the earliest type that didn 't require the designer to make every design one by one (Movable Type) to the most modern (Digital Printing). The movable type…

Special Collections Visit The three-hundred and ninety-five-page book that I surveyed, titled Della Espositione Sopra L’orlando, was published June, 1550 (originally written in roman numerals MDL) by a person named Lorenzo Torrentino. A person by the initials of “U.R.S” was the author and the colophons, mentioned the printer’s name, “DV Cale”. This book was written in purely Italian and was paginated, and its size was fairly small, identifying it as an octavo. The title page included the…

The Effect of New Media on Print Newspaper The dawn of new media, especially the internet, has emerged with several opportunities as well as challenges for traditional print newspapers. The prevalence of the internet and the new media in particular has introduced new challenges to traditional media more than ever the printed newspaper. Industrial organizations and business analysts purport that newspaper commerce in the U.S suffers through what can be accorded as the worst financial relapse…

Achievement Standard Technology 91354: Children’s book research essay Fraser Mander There are many opinions about what makes a good book for children. A children’s book is a book with a mix of words and pictures. This is true from the Hairy Maclarey, written and illustrated by Lynley Dodd to Roald Dahl’s books as illustrated by Quentin Blake. Children’s books have to offer a sense of joy no matter how simple or complex it is. Books such as Curious George or Winnie the Pooh have that…

Paper Matters: Commerical Printing Paper Selection Tips and Guidelines You may not think that paper choice for your printing project doesn 't make a difference. In actuality, choosing the correct paper can make quite the difference. Your paper choice can significantly affect the look and feel of your finished product. However, when it comes down to choosing the correct paper you are often faced with an overwhelming number of paper products to choose from. This is why choosing the correct paper…

There has been a grand total of 129,864,880 books published ever. All of these fall into the category of essential questions that I have learned. Some of the books also contain some of the essential questions that I have found interesting. This year in english class we read Night by Elie Wiesel and the novel contains the essential question of seeking justice and bearing witness about terrible things that have happened like the holocaust and to promote what happened so the act can be prevented…

Although the 3-D printing industry did not see much growth in the first twenty years of its existence, the recently rapid development of the technology has led to breakthroughs within the field of medicine. Old fashioned and impersonal prosthetics are slowly being replaced by custom, innovative replacements. The 3-D printer is an incredibly efficient tool that doctors have begun using to create personalized solutions for problems that the medical field previously had no solutions for. Johnson…

With many calling the death of the traditional newspaper imminent, journalists and editors are forced to make risky decisions to stay afloat in a changing news marketplace and media environment. Competing with blogs and social media that can generate more content at much lower margins, owners are pressuring their newspapers to cut costs and produce content by any means necessary . In his article “Ethical Values and Quality Control in the Digital Era”, Bob Steele argues that the journalistic…

Newspapers are on the verge of extinction as information is digitalized and uploaded onto the world wide web for everyone to access. In only a few seconds, data can be retrieved solely from fingertips. No longer are people writing love letters or sending postcards to each other but instead sending digital texts that arrive almost immediately. Information travels instantly whereas millenniums ago, it had to travel by feet and would take forever to reach its destination. This digital age has…

“Illustrated papers have become a feature. Every newspaper stand is covered with them. Every railroad is filled with them. They make the battlefields, the coronations, the corruptions of politicians, and naval heroes. They are, in brief, the art gallery of the world.” That was Frederic Hudson’s perception of the illustrated newspaper, emphasizing the importance of pictorial reporting in a newly developed nation. Pictorial reporting was introduced to America by Frank Leslie, giving way to a…