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What is Graphic Design?
Graphic Design
• Combination of words or images that convey meaning together better than either can do alone.
• Telling a story with data.
• Visual presentation of data.
• Data organized visually
Pictograph
Cuneiform
Cuneiform
Greek contributions to writing
• Changed writing to left to right instead of right to left
• Added uncials, a rounded letter style
• Added 5 vowels
Roman contributions to writing
• Used a 21 letter alphabet prior to capturing Greece.
• Once Greece fell added Y and Z to accommodate Greek words.
• Added Serifs
• First advertising on buildings seen in Ancient Rome