Within this weeks tutorial, we discussed Pecha Kucha’s and the contents of the reading. The reading (typographica) I now understand was mainly about design and its technological developments, and how this affected major world events. The majority of the reading focused on visual communication design like that of newspapers and advertising posters. One interesting point that brought up, was the fact that Abraham Lincoln was perceived as more trustworthy and credible in the eyes of the public due to a photograph of him being widespread. Before this most people would not be able to see who they were voting for.

After the discussion, we made a timeline and had to guess in what order each communication invention was created.

Although my group only got 2 wrong, this was quite interesting (eg: how old sans serif is).

After the tutorial, I have followed up with studying Pecha Kucha’s and found some interesting examples. My favourite Pecha Kucha was this discussion about a fun social media page that became famous from an action figure and an idea:  https://www.pechakucha.org/presentations/make-it-so