Timelines tagged “publishing”
3 timelines
- Book
The book as a physical object and a commodity, from Mesopotamian clay tablets around 3200 BCE through papyrus rolls, the codex, manuscripts and printed books in Asia, the Americas and Europe to paperbacks, e-books and audiobooks in the 2020s.
- Notebook
The paper notebook and its forerunners, from a Bronze Age hinged writing board of about 1305 BCE through Roman wax tablets, commonplace books and scientists' notebooks to legal pads, spiral binding, the Moleskine revival and e-paper notebooks in the 2020s.
- Typography
The design and making of type, from Gutenberg's blackletter of about 1455 through Jenson's roman, Aldine italic, Garamond, Caslon, Bodoni, hot metal, Futura and Helvetica to PostScript, web fonts and variable fonts in 2016.