History of typography - typography from the 1960's - 90's

The history of typography was our first group project in the class. Group projects can go smoothly, but most of the time they are kind of a pain because you have to work around 4 peoples schedules so you can actually meet up and get some work done. For us we may have put things off a little longer than we should have, but once we got together we got stuff done real quick. The way we went about this project is that we all sat down discussed a layout for it. Then we created that layout, that part was easy. As was the next step, we then went on to dividing up the information evenly. After that we simply sent the layout to each member of the group and as long as they followed that layout the project should all form nicely together. We then took that layout filled it with our information on the people and memorable times that happened in our period and compiled it all together. 

The only tricky part after we figured all that out was what information should I put on my section of the presentation. Even that part was not very hard, the people that I had to look up I honestly never heard of before, but each one of them furthered typography and graphic design in great ways. After figuring that out I knew just what to put on there and it was not a problem whatsoever. 

The only problem that I had during this presentation was finding out more information on Gerald Holtom. The only thing I could find on this man was that he created the peace sign. He was a textile designer that created it and that is all I could find anywhere. I will say this was a great thing, but i'm not sure how important that he was to all of graphic design and typography for it. 

Another thing that I had a problem with was working between my computer and the computers in the graphics room. For this project I downloaded a trial run for indesign and I thought that it would go back and fourth between the trial run and the computers. But it didn't, I tried to get onto the computer to do some work on it there and it said that the two were not compatible so I had to re due the entire thing in indesign on the computer in the graphics room just so I could add a couple things to it. After I fixed that all was well and I think that our presentation will turn out pretty good.