After Class: Day Three 2/9/09

1. Name of graphic style (or topic) studied this session: Today's class we learned about the progression of the alphabet and how it's styles changed from region to region and from diferent time periods. Starting of with the Cretan pictographs to the Greek and Latin alphabets.

2. Describe specific qualities of this style (or if it’s a topic-highlights of that topic) that will help you identify it in the future.
From each alphabet there were different styles and was in doing their alphabet. The Phoenician alphabet was more fluid and organic while the Greek and Latin alphabet was more geometric and solid.

3. What is the most useful or meaningful thing you learned today?
The most useful thing that I learned today was being able to see and understand the changes from alphabet to alphabet. Seeing how they were similiar in ways and really different in others. An example of the similiarities would be the letter 'A'; and how it used to be a ox head and then it was turned upside to form the letter 'A".

4. State at least one question you have after the class. (if you state none here, you'd better have more detail done above to offset the work.)
Why were some of the letters lost? And how exactly were they lost?