Day One

Notes
-Greek, Cave Drawings, Symbols, lead to everyday typography
-Everything is connected with design
-Everything is a remix
-Artist copy, transform, and combine
-Nothing is truly original
-78 / 100 Movies are based off books, comics, videogames, etc.
-Xerox started the revolution in creating the personal computer
-Apple and Microsoft copied Xerox's user interface
-Evolution takes place
-Scribes have a very strict and perfectionist lifestyle
-If a scribe makes a mistake they have to redo the entire book
-Books at the time were of equivalent wealth as farms
-Books were chained and were not able to check out
-Printing press was invented decades later and replace scribes

Personal Thoughts
Today was interesting I didn't know what to expect. I really enjoyed the lecture on copying, transforming, and combining. I've always felt guilty, fake, and unoriginal when I "copy" and "transform" an idea or concept into my art work. Now I feel that copying is futile to avoid just because there's so much things out there already. I loved seeing the steps of copying and transforming of big name companies. My favorite was Xerox to Apple. I recently rewatched Pirates of Silicon Valley and of course loved it. But was also very interesting to learn that even big name companies like Apple seep ideas from other people.

The life of a scribe sounds just utterly horrible. I could never digest the idea of scrapping the entire book if I made one fatal error. To an extent I am a perfectionist but not to the extreme of a scribe. I did love seeing the scribe's life and how it intertwined with religion. I learned a nifty new fact today about books. I didn't know that they were chained or worth like farms. It's so weird to picture something that I can buy for less then $10 at a book store.

Overall, the main message that sunk into my brain is that all of design is connected. Which is so mind blowing and interesting that everything strings together and takes on inspiration from another piece of art.