After Class Chapter 5

After two periods of no after class blogs we start one again today. Today we started the class by going through people's weekly images. There were some good ones, the nike logo one was my favorite cause it was a spoof, i think. It was cool that my image was one of the ones shown.

Today was a review of chapter 5, printing in Europe. Relief printing and Xylography are the same and I learned the ancient mermaid watermark from the French is the new modern Starbucks logo. We went through the Gutenberg drama around 1450. He borrowed money from Fust, Fust sued Gutenberg and Schoeffer took off and married Fust's daughter. The punches that Gutenberg used are what make the letters. We discussed the different jobs of the type process and found computers do nearly all the processes these days. Textura was used until about the 1970s in Germany. Gutenberg.org was introduced. I checked it out, doesn't seem that interesting.

In chapter 6, there was the German Illustrated Book. Ludites were peoples against the press, because the scribes and calligraphers were afraid they'd lose their jobs. We went through what we thought was interesting from the chapter. I thought the fact that a lot of typography comes from Germany was interesting.

Finally we went over the upcoming debate and the first test, and presentations and paper. I think I want to do the International Typographic style.

My question for the class period is this: Why do you think Fust decided to loan out that much money to Gutenberg and suddenly decide to turn and sue him for it all back when he did? It seemed a little soon to me, was he really just not getting results soon enough for was he getting desperate for money?