Chapter 9 Flashcards
Industrial Revolution
A radical process of social and economic change from an agricultural society to an industrial one. The amount of energy generated steam power increased one hundredfold and replaced animal and human power as the primary source of energy. Cities grew rapidly, as masses of people left a substance on the land and sought employment in factories, an political power shifted away from the aristocracy and toward capitalist manufacturers, merchants, and even the working class
Pica
a standard measurement for type equal to about 12 points or 1/6 of an inch
fat face
A roman face whose contrast and weight have been increased by expanding the thickness of the heavy strokes. The strokes width has a ratio of 1:2.5, or even 1:2, to the capital height
Egyptian type
The second major innovation of 19th century type design, it conveys a bold, machinelike feeling through slab like rectangular serifs, even weight throughout the letters, and short ascenders and descenders
Bracket
A curved fill between the main strokes of a letter and the serif
Ionic
A variation of Egyptian having slightly bracketed serifs and increased contrast between thick and thins
Clarendon typeface
A modified condensed Egyptian with stronger contrasts between thick and thin strokes and somewhat lighter serifs
Tuscan-style letters
Characterized by serifs that are extended and curved, with a range if variations during the 19th century, often with bulges, cavities, and ornaments
sans-serif type
type without serifs
wood type
durable, light, and less than half as expensive as large metal types, which rapidly overcame printers’ initial objections and had a significant impact on poster and broadsheet design
compositor
the person who selected and composed the type, rules, ornaments, and wood-engraved or metal-stereotyped stock illustrations that filled the type cases
Fourdrinier Machine
A paper-making machine named after Henry and Sealy Fourdrinier, who acquired the rights to the first production paper machine that was operative in 1803 at Frogmore, England. This machine, which was similar to Nicolas-Louis Robert’s 1798 prototype, poured a suspension of fiber and water in a thin stream upon a vibrating wire-mesh conveyor belt on which an unending sheet of paper could be manufactured
Linotype Machine
a machine developed by Ottmar Mergenthaler that could compose metal type mechanically by automating the traditional type case. Ninety typewriter keys controlled vertical tubes that were filled with small brass matrixes with female impressions of the letterforms, numbers, and symbols
Monotype machine
Invented by Tolbert Lanston, it cast single characters from hot metal
American Type Founders Company
an 1892 merger of 14 foundries that was formed in an effort to stabilize the industry by forcing weaker foundries out of business and thereby surplus capacity
phototypography
the printing of type using a photographic process, which would be introduced in the 1960s
Camera Obscura
A darkened room or box with a small opening or lens in one side. Light rays passing through this aperture are projected onto the opposite aide and form a picture of the bright objects outside
bitumen of Judea
a light-sensitive asphalt that hardens when exposed to light
heliogravure
- “sun engraving”
- method developed by Joseph Niepce using a pewter sheet covered in bitumen of Judea, a light sensitive asphalt
daguerreotype
photographic process developed through the collaboration of Louis Jacques Daguerre and Joseeph Niepce, it used a highly polished silver-plated copper sheet that was sensitized by placing it, silver side down, over a container of iodine crystals. the plate was placed in the camera and exposed to light coming through the lens to produce a latent image
photogenic drawings
images made by William Henry Fox Talbot without a camera by holding a piece of lace or a leaf tight against light-sensitive paper with a pane of glass and exposing it in sunlight
photograms
a term used today to describe images by holding an object over a photographic paper and exposing it to light, creating a negative image
negative
a term coined by Sir John Herchel to describe a revered photographic image
positive
a term coined by Sir John Herschel to describe a positive image made by contact printing the reverse image to another sheet of sensitized paper in sunlight
photography
from the Greek photos graphos, meaning “light drawing,” a term coined by Sir John Herschel to describe the photographic process
Calotype
- Greek “Kalos typos” meaning “beautiful impressions”
- Developed by William Henry Fox Talbot, this process increased the light sensitivity of paper
talbotype
Another name for William Henry Fox Talbot’s Calotype process, suggested by his friends
The Pencil of Nature
A book published by William Henry Fox Talbot that featured 24 photographs mounted into each copy by hand
collodion
A clear viscous liquid sensitized with iodine compounds, poured over a glass plate, immersed in a silver-nitrate bath, and exposed and developed in the camera while still wet; a wet plate process developed by Fredrick Archer
Kodak camera
an invention of George Eastman using a dry-plate process, finally allowing ordinary citizens the ability to create images and keep a graphic record of their lives and experiences
gelatin emulsion
a drier light-sensitive material used in a commercially feasible photoengraving method for translating line artwork into metal letterpress plates developed by John Calvin Moss
halftone screen
a screen breaks a continuous tone image into a series of minute dots whose varying sizes simulate tones that can be reproduced with an even ink application of the relief press
first photographic separation
illustrations printed in the 1881 Christmas issue of the Paris magazine l’illustration. The process remained experimental until the end of the century, but during the 1880s and 1890s, it began to rapidly make obsolete the highly skilled craftsmen who transferred artists’ designs to handmade printing plates
first photographic interview
published in Le Journal Illustre; F.T. Nader’s son Paul made a series of 21 photographs as Nader interviewed the eminent 100 year old scientist Michel Eugene Chevreul
Victorian Era
A time of strong moral and religious beliefs, proper social conventions, and optimism. “God’s in his heaven, all’s right with the world” was a popular motto during this period. Aesthetic confusion led to a number of often contradictory design approaches and philosophies mixed together in a scattered fashion
Great Exhibition or Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851
A grand exhibition with hundreds of exhibitors from all the industrialized nations, conceived in 1849 by Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria. Set in an 800,000-square-foot steel and glass prefabricated exhibition hall that remains a London landmark in architectural design, the exhibition was an important summation of the progress of the industrial Revolution and a catalyst for future developments
lithography
- “stone printing”
- invented by Bavarian author Aloys Senefelder in 1796. Based on the simple chemical principal that oil and water do not mix, an image is drawn on a flat surface with an oil-based medium. Water is then spread over the stone to moisten all areas except the oil-based image, which repels the water and accepts oil-based ink, which is then transferred to paper
planographic printing
printing from a flat surface