A Brief History of Production

The production of graphic material, inventions and techniques start many thousands of years ago, I researched into a few historic graphic production and will include a short brief on my findings. Starting with the first ever solid book to be printed in Europe which was the Bible by Johannes Gutenburg in 1445 – it was made to a beautiful quality and extremely advantaged for that time, being produced on the printing press. Being as beautiful as the pages were they came with a price, literally, depending on how much the buyer was willing to pay depended on the decoration and detail they got, some of the books were never completed to their full potential.

Even the use of drop capitals to begin each paragraph has been used, and the use of the grid system, dividing the paragraphs for an easier read. This book is a strong advanced early stage from the 1450’s, of how the graphics of this page are still in practice in graphic theories and techniques that are still around and used today.