January 9, 2009, 10:34 am

History of Visual Communication

by Kirsten Robinson
Filed under: Information Design

Elif Ayiter, a doctoral student at the University of Plymouth, has pubished an illustrated history of visual communication on the web, covering everything from cave paintings to graphical user interfaces. I was particularly struck by the transition from illuminated manuscripts to printed books and how much uglier the mass-produced books were by comparison.

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