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The Post-Truth World

Movies watched in 2023

The Post-Truth World (2022, Taiwan)

Director: Chen I-Fu

Writer: Nai-Ching Yeh

Mini-review:

The Post-Truth World is a well acted, solid thriller. It's not brilliant by any means, but it's entertaining enough and it makes some great point about how far the media is willing to go in order to get views. That being said, I didn't like the final part, cause I think it took the easy way out and the ending turned out rather underwhelming. The cast is great, though, and it carries the movie through its weakest points.

[fannishlove]

I love Joseph Chang so much. The Victim's Game is the first time I watched him in 2020 and I never stopped after that. I like that he tries many different things and even when a script is not that great, he does his bit so well. Looking forward to his upcoming works.

Also in addition this is a very self indulgent Shane/Jonathan collage from Eternal Summer. I really like this movie so much, despite the frustrating parts, it's still one of my favourite movies. It might not leave you happy, it still makes me feel things. A beautiful coming of age story.

[oceanusborealis]

The Post-Truth World (罪後真相/Zui Hou Zhen Xiang) - Movie Review

TL;DR – A compelling tale of murder and coverup, where there are many potential suspects, and in the end, the truth might be the biggest casualty.      ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 4 out of 5. Post-Credit Scene – There is a mid-credit sceneDisclosure – I paid for the Netflix service that viewed this film. The Post-Truth World Review – One of the most essential topics in modern times is the notion of truth…

[byneddiedingo]

Jonathan Chang and Nien-Jen Wu in Yi Yi (Edward Yang, 2000)

Cast: Nien-Jen Wu, Issei Ogata, Elaine Jin, Kelly Lee, Jonathan Chang, Hsi-Sheng Chen, Su-Yun Ko, Chuan-Chen Tao, Shu-shen Hsiao, Pang Chang Yu. Screenplay: Edward Yang. Cinematography: Wei-Han Yang. Production design: Peng. Film editing: Po-Wen Chen. Music: Kai-Li Peng. 

In his Criterion Collection essay on Yi Yi, Kent Jones does something that I endorse completely: He compares writer-director Edward Yang's film to the work of George Eliot. As I was watching Yi Yi, I kept thinking that it gave me the same satisfaction that a good novel does: that of participating in the lives of people I would never know otherwise. George Eliot's aesthetic was based on the premise that art serves to enlarge human sympathy. It's an idea echoed in the film by a character who quotes his grandfather saying that since the introduction of motion pictures, we now live three times longer than we did before -- we experience that many more things  The remark in context is ironic, given that the character, a teenager (Pang Chang Yu) who will later commit a murder, mentions killing as one of the experiences now vicariously afforded to us by movies. But the general import of the observation stands: Yi Yi gives us the sweep of life, beginning with a wedding and ending with a funeral, and taking in along the way birth, found and lost love, and other experiences of the Jian family and acquaintances in Taiwan. The central character, N.J. (Nien-Jen Wu), is a businessman caught up in the machinations of his company while trying to deal with family problems: His mother-in-law suffers a stroke and lies comatose; his brother-in-law's wedding to a pregnant bride is interrupted by a furious ex-girlfriend; his wife has an emotional breakdown and leaves for a Buddhist retreat in the mountains; his daughter, Ting-Ting (Kelly Lee), is in the throes of adolescent self-consciousness and blames herself because her grandmother suffered a stroke while taking out the garbage Ting-Ting had been told to take care of; his small son, Yang-Yang (Jonathan Chang), refuses to join the family in taking turns talking to his comatose grandmother, and he keeps getting in trouble at school. And these matters are complicated by the reappearance of N.J.'s old girlfriend, Sherry (Sun-Yun Ko), now married to a Chicago businessman, who joins N.J. in Tokyo on a business trip that puts him at odds with his company. The separate experiences of N.J., Ting-Ting, and Yang-Yang overlap and sometimes ironically counterpoint one another, and the film is laced together by recurring images and themes. Although it's three hours long, Yi Yi never seems slack. A lesser director would have cut some of the sequences not essential to the narrative, such as the performances of Beethoven's "Moonlight" Sonata and the Cello Sonata No. 1, or the long pan across the lighted office windows in nighttime Taipei, but these give an essential emotional lift to a film that has rightly been called a masterwork.

[goalhofer]

2024 olympics Taiwan roster

Archery

Yu-Hsuan Tai (Taipei)

Chih-Chun Tang (Taipei)

Zih-Siang Lin (Taipei)

Tsai-Chi Li (Taipei)

Yi-Ching Chiu (Taipei)

Chien-Ying Lei (Taipei)

Athletics

Chun-Han Yang (Yuli Xiāng)

Ming-Yang Peng (Hsinchu Xiàn)

Yu-Tang Lin (Penghu)

Bo-Ya Zhang (Hsinchu)

Badminton

Tien-Chen Chou (Taipei)

Yang Lee (Kaohsiung)

Chi-Lin Wang (Taipei)

Hong-Wei Ye (Taichung)

Tzu-Ying Tai (Kaohsiung)

Chia-Hsin Lee (Kaohsiung)

Boxing

Chia-Wei Kan (Taipei)

Chu-En Lai (Pingtung Xiàn)

Hsiao-Wen Huang (Taipei)

Yu-Ting Lin (Taipei Xiàn)

Shih-Yi Wu (Taipei)

Nien-Chin Chen (Hualien Xiàn)

Breakdancing

Chen Sun (Taipei)

Canoeing

Shao-Hsuan Wu (Taipei)

Kuan-Chieh Lai (Taipei)

Chu-Han Chang (Taichung)

Fencing

Yi-Tung Chen (Taipei)

Golf

Cheng-Tsung Pan (Bellevue, Washington)

Chun-An Yu (Scottsdale, Arizona)

Pei-Yun Chien (Taipei)

Wei-Ling Hsu (Taipei)

Gymnastics

Chia-Hung Tang (Taipei)

Hua-Tien Ting (Taipei)

Judo

Yung-Wei Yang (Taichung)

Chen-Hao Lin (Taipei)

Chen-Ling Lien (Taipei)

Shooting

Meng-Yuan Lee (Taipei)

Kun-Pi Yang (Taipei)

Heng-Yu Liu (Taipei)

Wan-Yu Liu (Taipei)

Ai-Wen Yu (Taoyuan)

Chia-Chen Tien (Hsinchu)

Chia-Ying Wu (Taipei)

Yi-Chun Lin (Taoyuan)

Swimming

Kuan-Hung Wang (Taipei)

An-Chi Han (Taipei)

Table tennis

Cheng-Jui Kao (Taipei)

Yun-Ju Lin (Taipei)

Chih-Yuan Chuang (Kaohsiung)

Tung-Chuan Chien (Taipei)

I-Ching Cheng (Tainan Chéngshì)

Szu-Yu Chen (Taipei)

Taekwondo

Chia-Ling Lo (Taipei)

Tennis

Su-Wei Hsieh (Taipei)

Chia-Yi Tsao (Taipei)

Hao-Ching Chan (Taipei)

Yung-Jan Chan (Taipei)

Weightlifting

Wan-Ling Fang (Taipei)

Hsing-Chun Kuo (Yilan Chéngshì)

Wen-Huei Chen (Taipei)

[jcmarchi]

This ultrasound sticker senses changing stiffness of deep internal organs

New Post has been published on https://thedigitalinsider.com/this-ultrasound-sticker-senses-changing-stiffness-of-deep-internal-organs/

This ultrasound sticker senses changing stiffness of deep internal organs

MIT engineers have developed a small ultrasound sticker that can monitor the stiffness of organs deep inside the body. The sticker, about the size of a postage stamp, can be worn on the skin and is designed to pick up on signs of disease, such as liver and kidney failure and the progression of solid tumors.

Credit: Courtesy of the researchers

In an open-access study appearing today in Science Advances, the team reports that the sensor can send sound waves through the skin and into the body, where the waves reflect off internal organs and back out to the sticker. The pattern of the reflected waves can be read as a signature of organ rigidity, which the sticker can measure and track.

“When some organs undergo disease, they can stiffen over time,” says the senior author of the paper, Xuanhe Zhao, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “With this wearable sticker, we can continuously monitor changes in rigidity over long periods of time, which is crucially important for early diagnosis of internal organ failure.”

The team has demonstrated that the sticker can continuously monitor the stiffness of organs over 48 hours and detect subtle changes that could signal the progression of disease. In preliminary experiments, the researchers found that the sticky sensor can detect early signs of acute liver failure in rats.

The engineers are working to adapt the design for use in humans. They envision that the sticker could be used in intensive care units (ICUs), where the low-profile sensors could continuously monitor patients who are recovering from organ transplants.

“We imagine that, just after a liver or kidney transplant, we could adhere this sticker to a patient and observe how the rigidity of the organ changes over days,” lead author Hsiao-Chuan Liu says. “If there is any early diagnosis of acute liver failure, doctors can immediately take action instead of waiting until the condition becomes severe.” Liu was a visiting scientist at MIT at the time of the study and is currently an assistant professor at the University of Southern California.

The study’s MIT co-authors include Xiaoyu Chen and Chonghe Wang, along with collaborators at USC.

Sensing wobbles

Like our muscles, the tissues and organs in our body stiffen as we age. With certain diseases, stiffening organs can become more pronounced, signaling a potentially precipitous health decline. Clinicians currently have ways to measure the stiffness of organs such as the kidneys and liver using ultrasound elastography — a technique similar to ultrasound imaging, in which a technician manipulates a handheld probe or wand over the skin. The probe sends sound waves through the body, which cause internal organs to vibrate slightly and send waves out in return. The probe senses an organ’s induced vibrations, and the pattern of the vibrations can be translated into how wobbly or stiff the organ must be.

Ultrasound elastography is typically used in the ICU to monitor patients who have recently undergone an organ transplant. Technicians periodically check in on a patient shortly after surgery to quickly probe the new organ and look for signs of stiffening and potential acute failure or rejection.

“After organ transplantation, the first 72 hours is most crucial in the ICU,” says another senior author, Qifa Zhou, a professor at USC. “With traditional ultrasound, you need to hold a probe to the body. But you can’t do this continuously over the long term. Doctors might miss a crucial moment and realize too late that the organ is failing.”

The team realized that they might be able to provide a more continuous, wearable alternative. Their solution expands on an ultrasound sticker they previously developed to image deep tissues and organs.

“Our imaging sticker picked up on longitudinal waves, whereas this time we wanted to pick up shear waves, which will tell you the rigidity of the organ,” Zhao explains.

Existing ultrasound elastrography probes measure shear waves, or an organ’s vibration in response to sonic impulses. The faster a shear wave travels in the organ, the stiffer the organ is interpreted to be. (Think of the bounce-back of a water balloon compared to a soccer ball.)

The team looked to miniaturize ultrasound elastography to fit on a stamp-sized sticker. They also aimed to retain the same sensitivity of commercial hand-held probes, which typically incorporate about 128 piezoelectric transducers, each of which transforms an incoming electric field into outgoing sound waves.

“We used advanced fabrication techniques to cut small transducers from high-quality piezoelectric materials that allowed us to design miniaturized ultrasound stickers,” Zhou says.

The researchers precisely fabricated 128 miniature transducers that they incorporated onto a 25-millimeter-square chip. They lined the chip’s underside with an adhesive made from hydrogel — a sticky and stretchy material that is a mixture of water and polymer, which allows sound waves to travel into and out of the device almost without loss.

In preliminary experiments, the team tested the stiffness-sensing sticker in rats. They found that the stickers were able to take continuous measurements of liver stiffness over 48 hours. From the sticker’s collected data, the researchers observed clear and early signs of acute liver failure, which they later confirmed with tissue samples.

“Once liver goes into failure, the organ will increase in rigidity by multiple times,” Liu notes.

“You can go from a healthy liver as wobbly as a soft-boiled egg, to a diseased liver that is more like a hard-boiled egg,” Zhao adds. “And this sticker can pick up on those differences deep inside the body and provide an alert when organ failure occurs.”

The team is working with clinicians to adapt the sticker for use in patients recovering from organ transplants in the ICU. In that scenario, they don’t anticipate much change to the sticker’s current design, as it can be stuck to a patient’s skin, and any sound waves that it sends and receives can be delivered and collected by electronics that connect to the sticker, similar to electrodes and EKG machines in a doctor’s office.

“The real beauty of this system is that since it is now wearable, it would allow low-weight, conformable, and sustained monitoring over time,” says Shrike Zhang, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and associate bioengineer at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, who was not involved with the study. “This would likely not only allow patients to suffer less while achieving prolonged, almost real-time monitoring of their disease progression, but also free trained hospital personnel to other important tasks.”

The researchers are also hoping to work the sticker into a more portable, self-enclosed version, where all its accompanying electronics and processing is miniaturized to fit into a slightly larger patch. Then, they envision that the sticker could be worn by patients at home, to continuously monitor conditions over longer periods, such as the progression of solid tumors, which are known to harden with severity.

“We believe this is a life-saving technology platform,” Zhao says. “In the future, we think that people can adhere a few stickers to their body to measure many vital signals, and image and track the health of major organs in the body.”

This work was supported, in part, by the National Institutes of Health.

[awu-wangxuan]

now that I've almost finished watching the victim game, I truly truly hope the second season will give us a little bit of intimacy between fang yi ren and xu hai yin and that their relationship will be better developed and showcased because, truth to be said, they do have chemistry. these two are the only ones that understand each other, they literally conduct their life in the exact same way, which is deemed as reckless and egoistic by others, so i feel like there could be a level of sympathy among them that no one else really gets and which could be the element of contrast in the drama.

i don't think we are ever going to get romance, it wouldn't "suit" the characters' trajectory, but i do hope they develop some sort of friendship and attachment towards each other. the drama has everything except for that level of warmth that comes out of a well meaning relationship, in fact everything seems very disrupted, brutal and almost hurried. there is very little space for affection and that too is reserved for relationships that couldn't get their happy ending. at this point (episode 7), it almost feels repetitive. this is why I'm hoping for something different to happen in season 2, especially if it comes as a stronger bond between fang yi ren and xu hai yin. it would also be significant for depicting a more positive version of a relationship and possibly help two extremely lonely and self-isolating individuals to come out and try to find solace in the presence and the existence of the other.

[melodious-tear]

Pandora’s Box (2021) ep. 11

[cinemadrunk]

RecentWatch (9/9)

The Laundryman 2015

It starts off strong, but then it takes a turn. It’s not bad. I wouldn’t watch it again.

4/10

Life Itself 2018

I like the idea of this movie, how it’s threaded. Yet and still, it is very hard to say I liked it. you can watch it if you want.

5/10

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275.

盛夏光年 (2006) | Dir. Leste Chen

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

“Without you Taipei is very sad.”

Au Revoir Taipei (Arvin Chen, 2010)

[ourprefers]

Ultrasound stickers could continuously image internal organs for days

Ultrasound stickers could continuously image internal organs for days

A patch the size of a postage stamp can continuously deliver ultrasound imaging for 48 hours, and it has been used to see changes in the lungs, heart and stomach of people exercising and drinking Technology 28 July 2022 By Jeremy Hsu An ultrasound patch made with a water-based hydrogel Chonghe Wang, Xiaoyu Chen, Liu Wang, Mitsutoshi Makihata, Hsiao-Chuan Liu, Tao Zhou, Xuanhe Zhao Patches the…

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Drought in Taiwan Pits Chip Makers Against Farmers HSINCHU, Taiwan — Chuang Cheng-deng’s modest rice farm is a stone’s throw from the nerve center of Taiwan’s computer chip industry, whose products power a huge share of the world’s iPhones and other gadgets. This year, Mr. Chuang is paying the price for his high-tech neighbors’ economic importance. Gripped by drought and scrambling to save water for homes and factories, Taiwan has shut off irrigation across tens of thousands of acres of farmland. The authorities are compensating growers for the lost income. But Mr. Chuang, 55, worries that the thwarted harvest will drive customers to seek out other suppliers, which could mean years of depressed earnings. “The government is using money to seal farmers’ mouths shut,” he said, surveying his parched brown fields. Officials are calling the drought Taiwan’s worst in more than half a century. And it is exposing the enormous challenges involved in hosting the island’s semiconductor industry, which is an increasingly indispensable node in the global supply chains for smartphones, cars and other keystones of modern life. Chip makers use lots of water to clean their factories and wafers, the thin slices of silicon that form the basis of the chips. And with worldwide semiconductor supplies already strained by surging demand for electronics, the added uncertainty about Taiwan’s water supply is not likely to ease concerns about the tech world’s reliance on the island and on one chip maker in particular: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. More than 90 percent of the world’s manufacturing capacity for the most advanced chips is in Taiwan and run by TSMC, which makes chips for Apple, Intel and other big names. The company said last week that it would invest $100 billion over the next three years to increase capacity, which will likely further strengthen its commanding presence in the market. TSMC says the drought has not affected its production so far. But with Taiwan’s rainfall becoming no more predictable even as its tech industry grows, the island is having to go to greater and greater lengths to keep the water flowing. In recent months, the government has flown planes and burned chemicals to seed the clouds above reservoirs. It has built a seawater desalination plant in Hsinchu, home to TSMC’s headquarters, and a pipeline connecting the city with the rainier north. It has ordered industries to cut use. In some places it has reduced water pressure and begun shutting off supplies for two days each week. Some companies, including TSMC, have hauled in truckloads of water from other areas. But the most sweeping measure has been the halt on irrigation, which affects 183,000 acres of farmland, around a fifth of Taiwan’s irrigated land. “TSMC and those semiconductor guys, they don’t feel any of this at all,” said Tian Shou-shi, 63, a rice grower in Hsinchu. “We farmers just want to be able to make an honest living.” In an interview, the deputy director of Taiwan’s Water Resources Agency, Wang Yi-feng, defended the government’s policies, saying the dry spell meant that harvests would be bad even with access to irrigation. Diverting scarce water to farms instead of factories and homes would be “lose-lose,” he said. When asked about farmers’ water troubles, a TSMC spokeswoman, Nina Kao, said it was “very important for each industry and company” to use water efficiently and pointed to TSMC’s involvement in a project to increase irrigation efficiency. That Taiwan, one of the developed world’s rainiest places, should lack for water is a paradox verging on tragedy. Much of the water used by residents is deposited by the summer typhoons. But the storms also send soil cascading from Taiwan’s mountainous terrain into its reservoirs. This has gradually reduced the amount of water that reservoirs can hold. The rains are also highly variable year to year. Not a single typhoon made landfall during last year’s rainy season, the first time that had happened since 1964. Taiwan last shut off irrigation on a large scale to save water in 2015, and before that in 2004. “If in another two or three years, the same conditions reappear, then we can say, ‘Ah, Taiwan has definitely entered an era of major water shortages,’” said You Jiing-yun, a civil engineering professor at National Taiwan University. “Right now, it’s wait and see.” In 2019, TSMC’s facilities in Hsinchu consumed 63,000 tons of water a day, according to the company, or more than 10 percent of the supply from two local reservoirs, Baoshan and Baoshan Second Reservoir. TSMC recycled more than 86 percent of the water from its manufacturing processes that year, it said, and conserved 3.6 million tons more than it did the year before by increasing recycling and adopting other new measures. But that amount is still small next to the 63 million tons it consumed in 2019 across its Taiwan facilities. Mr. Chuang’s business partner on his farm in Hsinchu, Kuo Yu-ling, does not like demonizing the chip industry. “If Hsinchu Science Park weren’t developed like it is today, we wouldn’t be in business, either,” said Ms. Kuo, 32, referring to the city’s main industrial zone. TSMC engineers are important customers for their rice, she said. But it is also wrong, Ms. Kuo said, to accuse farmers of guzzling water while contributing little economically. “Can’t we take a fair and accurate accounting of how much water farms use and how much water industry uses and not stigmatize agriculture all the time?” she said. The “biggest problem” behind Taiwan’s water woes is that the government keeps water tariffs too low, said Wang Hsiao-wen, a professor of hydraulic engineering at National Cheng Kung University. This encourages waste. Households in Taiwan use around 75 gallons of water per person each day, government figures show. Most Western Europeans use less than that, though Americans use more, according to World Bank data. Mr. Wang of the Water Resources Agency said: “Adjusting water prices has a big effect on society’s more vulnerable groups, so when making adjustments, we are extremely cautious.” Taiwan’s premier said last month that the government would look into imposing extra fees on 1,800 water-intensive factories. Lee Hong-yuan, a hydraulic engineering professor who previously served as Taiwan’s interior minister, also blames a bureaucratic morass that makes it hard to build new wastewater recycling plants and to modernize the pipeline network. “Other small countries are all extremely flexible,” Mr. Lee said, but “we have a big country’s operating logic.” He believes this is because Taiwan’s government was set up decades ago, after the Chinese civil war, with the goal of ruling the whole of China. It has since shed that ambition, but not the bureaucracy. Taiwan’s southwest is both an agricultural heartland and a rising center of industry. TSMC’s most advanced chip facilities are in the southern city of Tainan. The nearby Tsengwen Reservoir has shrunk to a marshy stream in some parts. Along a scenic strip known as Lovers’ Park, the floor of the reservoir has become a vast moonscape. The water volume is around 11.6 percent of capacity, according to government data. In farming towns near Tainan, many growers said they were content to be living on the government’s dime, at least for now. They clear the weeds from their fallowed fields. They drink tea with friends and go on long bike rides. But they are also reckoning with their futures. The Taiwanese public appears to have decided that rice farming is less important, both for the island and the world, than semiconductors. The heavens — or larger economic forces, at least — seem to be telling the farmers it is time to find other work. “Fertilizer is getting more expensive. Pesticide is getting more expensive,” said Hsieh Tsai-shan, 74, a rice grower. “Being a farmer is truly the worst.” Serene farmland surrounds the village of Jingliao, which became a popular tourist spot after appearing in a documentary about farmers’ changing lives. There is only one cow left in town. It spends its days pulling visitors, not plowing fields. “Around here, 70 counts as young,” said Yang Kuei-chuan, 69, a rice farmer. Both of Mr. Yang’s sons work for industrial companies. “If Taiwan didn’t have any industry and relied on agriculture, we all might have starved to death by now,” Mr. Yang said. Source link Orbem News #Chip #drought #farmers #Makers #pits #Taiwan

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Final say

Language is one of those things that I have personally never given much thought about in regards to its origin. This class was such an eye opening experience to the world of design and to the people that have created everything from the basics of language and speech to the font that you see on this document. To have innovated so quickly from the Industrial Revolution to now, in a little over a couple hundred years is truly amazing.We live in a time where information is readily available at any given moment. We literally have the freedom of knowledge in our pockets and also the freedom to say basically anything we want, no matter if it’s true or relevant. The desire to create and share information is what I believe started humans on the path to where we are today.

The earliest known form of written communication was discovered in caves, much like the caves in Lascaux, France. The earliest known writing was known as Cuneiform and was created by the Sumerians and ancient Mesopotamia. From the Sumerians, language and writing changed at the hands of the Egyptians and their hieroglyphics. For the first time, we had pictures and shapes that could be determined to be a language spoken by an ancient civilization. This wasn’t the only great innovation by the Egyptians as they were master architects and savvy business people, thanks to the near by Nile river. Waterways played an interesting role in the expansion of language, culture and graphic design as a whole. Another masterful civilization, and one that is known be one of the greatest era’s in mankind was the Greek innovations for language, and letters. Specifically, a written alphabet known as the Phoenician alphabet. This alphabet coincides with the North Semitic alphabet of the same time period.

After the fall of Greece, the spread of cultures was reaching far and wide, soon reaching a place Italy, or the Etruscan people which lead to the creation of the Latin alphabet. The latin alphabet is was most closely resembles the alphabet we know today, and is what allows for us to read the words I’m typing. Originally the Latin alphabet had 21 letters, but advances and adoptions from other cultures stolen by the Romans in their rapid expansion grew the alphabet to the letters we have today. Roman letters also had a major influence on the creation of typography and the beauty that most would try to achieve. One area that I never realized was such a large contributor to the world was China. The Chinese invented paper. Paper may be obsolete by the time I’m an old man, but the creation of paper is one of the most important inventions to ever be created. Chinese Calligraphy played a major role in what it means to create words and sounds and what it means to create art as calligraphy was an art form, not just a means of communication. According to our book, Megg’s History of Graphic Design, Chinese calligraphy had 5 stages: Chiaku-Wen, Chin-Wen, Hsiao-Chuan, Lu-Shu, and Chen-shu. An amazing exmaple of chinese calligraphy can be seen in the Album of 8 Leaves by Li Fangyang.

Along with the creation of paper, the next major innovation that would be the catalyst for hundreds of years of artists and educators was the creation of printing. Done with wooden blocks, printing was a way to replicate symbols and characters and not have to write them over and over, one could simply stamp them. Of the earliest known graphic design examples is of Chinese scrolls and playing cards.

Following up and building upon the Chinese printing invention, illuminated manuscripts were now present in Western Europe and Eastern Islamic areas. A wonderful example of the these illuminated manuscripts were the Book of Kells and the Qur’an. Also the medieval manuscripts are most likely what most of us think about when we hear manuscripts, at least that’s what I thought of, that could possibly be Monty Python and the Holy Grail’s fault though.

The next innovation that truly had the largest impact on the history of graphic design was the innovations of typography. Block printing was now the means of creating books, and general communication for the public. But it wasn’t moving fast enough for the expansion of the languages. That’s when Johan Gutenburg created the movable type for block printers. There is a theme that I’ve learned about graphic design and it is that every country and every generation seeks to take what the previous innovators have done, and improve upon them and make them more concise and more importantly make them their own. Albrecht Pfister was the first to print illustrations with typography. Soon Nuremburg would become the printing capital of the world. During this expansion of typography, the Italian Renaissance was going on at the same time and people like Johannes da Spira were able to take advantage of the slow acceptance of this new method of printing as many believed it wasn’t as great at manuscripts but arguably the most influential typeface designer came out of this era and that was Nicolas Jenson. Jenson was the subject of numerous typeface inspirations for generations after he created over 150 books and he opened a second press as da Spira died. Other notable designers were Aldus Manutius and the Italian writing masters: Arrighi, Sigsmondo Fanti, and Giovantonio Tagliente.

There was a bit of a lull in designer innovation for a while, but in the 1700’s France’s Louis the XIV commissioned a new typeface. William Caslon took the task and created the Romain Du Roi. Moving over to the other side of the pond with a more familiar name. Benjamin Franklin, yes that one dude on the bill that I never have, printed Cato Major which was to be one of the first writings distributed among the new colonies in a tiny place called America. With these innovations in art, it is no surprise that others were excited about this technology and were looking for ways to use it for their own purpose. William Playfair was a scientist and created one of the first information graphics about his work. Another prominent designer was Giambattista Bodoni. Bodoni also has numerous typefaces to his name, and also a typeface named after him.

In the late 1700’s things changed. The birthplace of the Industrial revolution is said to be in England. This expanded to other areas and this growth came with both grand vision and terrible downturns. The grand vision was to create mass produced goods for people, the issue was now with mass production the need for graphic designers was basically non existent. They had machines doing everything and artists were scarce and frankly not wanted. This did however drive a need for mass communication among the people that went from working in fields to working in factories in terrible conditions. This need for mass communication was met by a man named William Cowper. Cowper patented a machine that could be mounted to a cylinder and rotate creating impressions on paper. This first invention was revolutionary in the creation of mass production. It would make 2,400 impression an hour and use 1,200 sheets of paper. As the demand grew so did the machine. Soon his printing press could create 4,000 sheets of paper an hour. That’s insane.

The first person to take a photograph was credited to Frenchman Joseph Niepce. This was deemed to be the end of printed word, much like the quartz crisis that hit all major wristwatch brands in the late 70’s and early 80’s. Nobody was going to want a mechanical watch after a battery operated one hit the market. Luckily for graphic designers everywhere, it was just another medium to create art with. Probably my favorite photographer is Eadweard Muybridge, not only because his name is impossible to spell, but because he is credited with creating the first moving picture of the running horse.

Soon after photography was created, lithograhy took off as the main source of creating images. All those PT Barnum circus posters, and Annie Oakley and Wild Bill Wild West Show evoke this short of wild west, lithography rough and tumble kind of world. Things were simple and yet not everyone was excited about lithography and chromolithography. Letterpress was still holding strong against the chromolithography craze that lasted 40 years from 1860 to 1900. Once 1900’s hit, everything just went wild. Graphic Design was really now turning into an artform and was no longer just letters. It was wild pictures seen in Harper’s Bazaar and William Morris was heading up private presses to create beautiful book designs. It was no longer a means to create mass communication, now it was that PLUS being able to do it in the most beautiful way possible. Art nouveau took hold and always evokes a sense of Victorian propriety and elegance. But North America wasn’t the only place having an art renaissance. Back in Europe…

Germany had the Jugendstil, or young style or art. It was a new movement that sought to learn from the past but to create new and exciting art, you know until World War 1 started. With these art movements you had some of the most famous names in all of art history arising during this time. Frank Lloyd Wright was a magnificent architect who would use nature as inspiration and decide how architecture could move with, not impede nature. There was a revolution of the arts in Vienna known as the Vienna secession where Peter Behren’s started his own movement. With these movements came cubism with Picasso as the most famous innovator, futurism, Dada which gave birth to surrealism for which Salvador Dali was it’s most well known contributor. I once heard a story that Dali would stay up for a few days and then paint his hallucinations. I don’t know how true that is, but I figured a final paper would be a wonderful place to mention that!

Circling back to photography, it was now just part of the movement that photography could take a more centralized role and could be manipulated. War posters were extremely popular and really weighed heavy on America and heavily influenced how people felt about the war. They didn’t have Twitter, they just had birds. Of this time period however one of the most iconic American symbols was born from James Montgomery Flagg, Uncle Sam saying “I WANT YOU!”

Powerful image. That was copied by the English with Britons Wants You. Get your own mascot!

Bauhaus was huge movement after World War 1 ended. There was a call for unity among artists and the idea was to create a Utopia of peace and everything would be great. Which really caught on, especially among Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and his belief of technology and the arts living together. He believed that when applied in the correct way, they could compliment each other and not be mutually exclusive.  Then World War 2 happened, and at this point you really saw graphic artist taking liberties with their art. John Heartfield, who took an English name because he wanted to boycott his German roots, depicted Hitler on a poster under an x-ray that showed his spine and stomach were full of money and his heart was a Nazi symbol. Anti-Hitler poster is an interesting search on Google.

After the war, Jan Tschichold was experimenting in new typography. Arranging words and graphics that hadn’t been done in such a way before. This was another turning point for graphic designers. Along with this was the creation of people targeted advertisements in America. Companies like Doyle, Dane and Bernbach ads were really on the forefront of advertisements in the post war years. This advertising blast was also helped by magazines such as Eros, Avant Garde, Esquire, and Playboy to name a few.

Another movement was the International Typographic style which found its base in Basel at the School of Design and Hermann Zapf was a proprietor of this style. Many people rejected this style as their own movement and would allow them create something different from the norm, which I feel is the basis for really influential design work. No one is different if they’re all the same! These graphics lead to logo designs, simple easy to remember emblems for a company, Paul Rand was a major contributor to this type of design. The determination to be different than the Swiss style gave birth to conceptual style like Milton Glasser who designed the Bob Dylan cover to our book or Wes Wilson who created the psychedelic typeface we see plastered all over San Francisco on Haight and Ashbury.

Post Modern, or Modernism as some would say because post-modern doesn’t make any sense is probably coming to its end soon but it really took off with people like Dan Friedman and April Greiman. Modernism can now run side by side with the digital revolution. The digital revolution changed mankind forever. Is it for the better? Probably not, because who knows what waste is created by technology, but it does make life easier. It’s the reason I’m able to write this on a laptop on a screen instead of in person and having my hand cramp until it only makes a claw like shape due to holding a pencil for 47 hours. With the combination of computers, painting, photography, and writing graphic design is at an all time diverse point I believe. As I stated before, people can create apps and website and user interfaces. Everything we look at now has a graphic designer behind it saying this could look good, this could look different, this could be cool. People like Matthew Carter who is responsible for creating a lot of the fonts in word processing programs  to Paula Scher who has done everything from book design to interior design and decoration. The possibilities are endless with technology. I feel the biggest takeaway from this class is my appreciation for all that have contributed to make graphic design what it is. It’s a culmination of human ingenuity, discipline, craziness, critical thinking and social awareness that has beckoned all of us to respond to art in a manner that we can appreciate it yet want to change it and make it better for the next generation to make it even better than we did.

Meggs’ History of Graphic Design, 6th Edition. Megg’s, Philip. Purvis, Alston.

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2020 Fubon Shouhu Zhe Players By Nationality

American: 3 (Ryan Bollinger, Mike Loree & Bryan Woodall)

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Dominican: 1 (Henry Sosa)

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