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Why is the Washington Redskins mascot/logo
controversial?
- Redskins is consider slang or an insult for
- Native Americans.
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What did some news organizations do to lesson
the impact of "offensive" sports organizations' names?
They only use the city’s name.
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Discussion question: What are your thoughts of
racer Danica Patrick? What are your thoughts of Cowboys QB Tony Romo?
- I believe it’s good that Danica uses her good
- looks for modeling because not only does it promote her image, it’s also a good
- separate income from racing.
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How do you think visual stereotypes have changed
over the years? How have they not changed?
- I feel as though stereotypes have become part of
- everyday life. We know that they’re bad, but when no one is looking we still
- believe them to be true. It is basically a security blanket for society.
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Before the printing press, how were published materials
produced/copied?
- casting mold type in metal. He combined a type
- mold acceptable for printing, a suitable metal alloy, ink, paper, and
- parchment, bookmaking, and a press.
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What was/is textur?
- The typeface Johannes Gutenberg used to print
- his Bibles.
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Who was Johannes Gutenberg? Why is he relevant
in the history of printing and publishing?
Originally born Johannes Gensfleisch
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In what year was Gutenberg's Bible introduced?
Where does this fall in relation to da Vinci and Christopher Columbus?
1455
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Who, more than likely, first used moveable type?
Additionally, who created paper? (Hint: Think country; not a person.)
- Chinese; the emperor’s enuch Ts’ai Luin invented
- paper
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What's the first American newspaper with a
regular circulation? With its two-column design, what published work did it
resemble?
- The Boston News-Letter; similar style to
- Gutenberg’s Bible
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What are the 6 perspectives of typography? Be
able to define each
- Blackletter: called gothic, old style, old
- English, renaissance, or medieval; highly ornate and decorative
- Roman: most commonly used; gently curved serifs
- create lines that are easy to read
Script: cursive writing, mimics handwriting
- Miscellaneous: novelty or display type; draws
- attention to itself
- Square Serif: sometimes called 3-D, slab, or
- Egyptian; “brick like”
Sans Serif: “block type;”
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Who was the first person to introduce a typeface
which mimics the handwriting of ordinary people? In what year did he do this?
In 1557, Robert Granjon introduced Script.
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In 1997, what did Stefan Sagmeister do to show
"the pain that seems to accompany most of our design projects"?
- (1996?) poster for Lou Reed’s “Set the Twilight
- Reeling.”
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What period is known as the "dark
ages" of typographical design? Why is this?
- Industrial; machine mentality ruled style,
- efficiency in design and the ability to attract attention to advertisements,
- rather than the appearance of a typeface, were praised.
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In other countries, how has Twitter been used as
a communication tool? What two examples are outlined in the textbook?
- Moldova. It mobilized more than 10,000
- protestors for a rally against the communist leadership. Iran helped organize
- opposition to the presidential election.
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In 2009, what did author Stephen King do in
support of the printed book?
- He sold 1,500 signed copies of his novel Under
- the Dome from the publisher’s website for $200.
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What does New York Times Magazine writer Kevin
Kelly believe will happen as all analog print books become digitized?
- They will become more valuable as an
- intellectual resource.
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