Todays lecture was quite a philosophical look at where, when and why type originated. There were a lot of quotes like "The written word endures, the spoken word disappears" and "Type is what language looks like". The general concencus is that written language started at around 3200B.C, so and so typography is a 5000+ year old art form.
We then were shown a brief chronology of the development of typography on computers, starting with the Gutenberg press, which set off the development in the 1450's. This also included the importance of the Bauhaus which had an influence in the modernist argument of form > function, and the introduction of the first Apple Computer to the public in 1990, which really started a boom in typography which has since seen the concept of type as image introduced.
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