Goodbye Gutenberg
Subtitle: hello to a new generation of readers and writers
By: written and designed by Valerie Kirschenbaum.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Designer Writers series
Publisher: Global Renaissance Society
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
Subjects: Printing -- History; Books -- History; Book design -- History; Book ornamentation -- History
Other titles: Honor with Books Program.
Notes: "This book is given by John Knudsen in honor of Benjamin Knudsen"--Bookplate.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 394-407) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1: Hello to a new generation of writers; title: The first generation; title: The birth of the designer writer; title: Writing with body language; title: Writing in the color of the stars; title: Writers on designer writing; title: The visual prophet: William Blake; title: 2: Hello to a new generation of readers; title: The Gutenberg cliché; title: Designer writing in Egypt; title: The visual secrets of Greece and Rome; title: Dawn of the designer poet: China; title: The philosopher painters of Maya; title: The golden ecstasies of Islam; title: These are the images: Hebrew illuminated manuscripts; title: Thinking in images: Aristotle in medieval Europe; title: Seeing the divine in the Hindu and Buddhist traditions; title: 3: Hello to a new generation of women; title: Godmother of designer writing: Christine de Pisan; title: Feminine fonts; title: Booklady: a modern feminine font; title: 4: Beauty and the book; title: Beauty and the book Part 1; title: Beauty and the book Part 2; title: 5: Hello to a new generation of teachers; title: Color in education, advertising and the arts; title: Color, reading and the brain; title: Edgar Allan Poe; title: The eye is full of deceit: Plato; title: Birth of the comic book: Homer; title: Measuring the immeasurable: Chaucer; title: Image magic in Ethiopia; title: A new generation of visual theorists; title: Writing outside the box; title: Chaos in the classroom; title: 6: Hello to the critics and skeptics; title: Critics of designer writing; title: Words on trial: ornament and decoration; title: 7: Goodbye Gutenberg; title: A revaluation of visual values; title: Dawn of designer prose; title: The visual vernacular; title: The old way of reading and the new; title: Terror in the arts; title: And so begin the beautiful books.