Similarities And Differences Between Tygraphy And Calligraphy

In recent years, the rushing tide of typing has overwhelmed the once necessary skill of handwriting. As the days pass by computers and other 21st century electronics are becoming more and more a part human lives. Gone are the constant needs for pen and paper, often times all that is needed for notetaking is a laptop and working fingers. A recent article published by Anne Trubek titled “Handwriting Just Doesn’t Matter” analyzes the importance of handwriting in the computerized world that is lived in today, as well as through a discussion on the teaching of cursive and other handwriting exercises in schools. Using a mix of pathos, logos, and minor amounts of ethos, Trubek is able to comprehensively convince her audience that handwriting is not as important or useful a skill as it used to be.

In the beginning of chapter four, The Typographic Mind, Neil Postman delivers an impressive narrative argument about the impact of print information culture on 17th and 19th century minds. Postman makes a few claims with respect to the contrasts between the written and spoken word. In this essay, there are four qualities of the typographic mind: attention span, listening ability, knowledge of issues, and literary language.

Before the printing press was established, persons known as “copyists” made a living of drawing or writing different types of manuscript books.

Leslie Slater is a handwriting enthuses who believes that the future of technology is crippling our art of writing and her strong evidence suggest that she might be on to something. The tone in opinion piece is pure and evidential, Leslie mention a substantial amount of studies and she really worry about good old fashion ink writing.

In addition, Cursive is easier and saves more time than print. Cursive is better than printing because it takes less time, is easier than picking the pencil or pen up several times to write a word as in cursive you only pick your pencil up at a new word, it’s also way cleaner than print or some say it used to be. Furthermore, cursive has a long period of history it covers the crumbled

The article’s, “Is It Time for Cursive to Die?”, written by Lauren Tarshis, and “Why I Keep My Letters”, written by Nina Sankovitch, both agree with different sides when it comes to us humans keeping cursive or not. Despite both articles giving good evidence to support their claim, I have come to the conclusion that the form of writing cursive should be preserved, not forgotten. One reason they cursive should not be forgotten is because of the history that comes from it. For instance, the article states, “Thomas Jefferson penned one of our country’s most famous documents, the Declaration of Independence, in glorious cursive” (Tarshis 19). This piece of evidence shows how some of the most important events in history used cursive, showing how

Typography is a tool for creating an emphasis on a page through readability. It can direct the reader where certain things are on a page that; acting like a map. Every reader is subconsciously

Clunas expands on his claim that the attributes of calligraphy are sometimes more important than the content itself. Shen Du

Brian Palmer focuses on the history of cursive. Such as the Egyptian hieroglyphics, it was a script but it was a total mess and so time-consuming they finally switched to the Rosetta

Whether an artist sits at a work desk or steps up to an easel, they all have a common goal; to create a message. Some express their message through visual mediums and others through text. Each type has its pros and cons but certain messages are more accurately represented by a specific medium.

“Typography is a servant-the servant of thought & language to which it gives visible existence.”

the design and execution of lettering with a broad tip instrument or brush in one stroke

Cursive writing evolved from the italic calligraphy hand, when few Americans could write, but those who did used round hand cursive. Many people did not know how to write in print, so they used round hand cursive. Cursive writing has been around since 1888, and is still around today. Understanding cursive, the teaching of it, and the different methods of it, has caused lots of confusion throughout.

“Self-expression, beauty, even thoughtfulness may be at stake” (Klose 1). Even though cursive writing is difficult to learn it should still be taught in school. When students write something down by hand, they will learn it better. When a student writes by hand, they will become more concentrated on what they have to write rather than typing what they would like to say. What is a student going to do if they have to sign something in cursive? Students still need to learn to write cursive legibly because cursive is a lost art, an important mode of communication, and cursive increases activity in three areas of the brain.

“Vision is the art of seeing the invisible” ( Jonathon Swift). We have been indulging in the arts and have used art as a way to express and interact with the people surrounding us. To the carved images on rocks, and to the cartoons shown on the TV, the evolution of Graphic Design has shown us the importance of typography, photographers, illustrators etc. have on our society. When paper, ink, and pencils didn’t exist, our ancestors would carve their warnings, messages, and emotions on rocks and walls. Our ancestors don’t realize that such small acts such as these was the beginning of a huge movement, that wouldn’t be recognized until thousands years later. During the 16th century, China was able to establish a technique called woodblock printing or, the application of ink on raised curved surface, that allowed multiple text and images to be made quickly. China’s wide extension of printing slowly reached the middle east and caused Europe to start producing woodblock broadsides and printed books. The first printing press was constructed by Johannes Gutenberg, which was the first metal movable type to create a large amount of printed books. In the Old days books were very rare, expensive and were very valuable. The creation of the Printing press allowed books to be done faster, cheaper and it allowed books to be more accessible to the public. Graphic Design or “the art or skill of combining text and pictures in