Friday, January 27, 2012

THE BRIEF HISTORY OF VISUAL COMMUNICATION


This is a visual representation of the sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." What makes this sentence so unique is that it employs every letter in the English alphabet. 
However, socially, humans can use different mediums to demonstrate this image.
In pre-history, the cave painters of Europe might have told the tragic saga of the fox and the hound (no pun intended) with images like these:

Just imagine that fox jumping over that dog.... I know I am. 
However with the advent of writing and English destroying and bastardizing the languages of Europe, Colonial Americans, Canadians, English, Australians, etc would have used the written word to describe this scene of foxy athleticism. 
However, with the invention of the printing press and the subsequent invention of the typewriter centuries later, typing has become an effective manner of spreading information.

Then, with the mass production of computers, we ended up here. 
No ink to dry, no presses to push, and no fear that a saber tooth tiger will come in at any moment and splatter your blood all over that pretty cave drawing giving Anthropologists something else to scratch their heads about in the modern day. 
Ugh. &%$@ these cave paintings. I'm going to Samoa- Margaret Mead, 1927


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