Publishing Design - Project 1 28.08.2020 - 02.10.2020 (Week 1 - Week 6) Wong Kai Yi (0340236) Publishing Design Project 1 (Content Generation) 1. LECTURE Fig 1.1 Formats Formats Civilizations: Mesopotamian Pictographic writing on clay tablets Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphics is wrote on special type of paper - papyrus. Indus Valley Cuneiform is one of the earliest systems of writing (written on soft clay tablets) Han Chinese Chinese characters are written in vertical columns, a thin strip of bamboo is ideal for a single column Earliest printed book: Chinese, end of T'ang dynasty (paper scroll using Chinese wood blocks - movable type) European Parchment (animal hide) Paper becomes widely used Fig 1.2 History of Print History of Print 2-8th century AD China 6 main classics of Confucianism carved in stone AD 750-768 Hyakumantō Darani: large-scale woodblock printing (earliest recorded uses of woodblock printing in Japan) AD 868 China First printed book: Chinese (e...
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