Field Journal

During the renaissance, people could write down every single letter in form of calligraphy. When we look at calligraphy, we realize that people used to add some more lines in order to produce beautiful out looking beyond the writing.

From the history, we could know that the books were becoming common during the renaissance. However, books were still luxury goods. Fitting in with the image of luxury goods, people dropped down the beautiful calligraphy instead of just writing. Nowadays, we could get any information we want from so many sources, such as websites and books. Books are most likely being the sources of information, rather than the things pleasing to the eye. Most of the books nowadays are filled of typed letters.

We would argue that the beautiful calligraphy is useless now. People nowadays would only simply write down or type down an A if they want to write down an A. No matter how beautiful the calligraphy is, it would never be in common use. Isn’t it?

Sorry, I have to say that the calligraphy is now in common use. We all use it and read it all the time. In fact, here it is.

When I was young, I felt so happy when I wrote down the Treble clef on the staff. It is the first calligraphy I ever met. It seems to be the modified version of G. I thought that Treble clef is really beautiful. After a long period of time, I finally know that is really a Latin letter G. The Bass clef is also the Latin letter F. It means that the calligraphy is turned into common use. There is no one who writes down a straight F on staff. We all use the calligraphy, rather than the formal one.

People in the past used to make the letters more beautiful, including musicians surely. They did not want just writing down the letter G or F. They tried to make the letter G and F more beautiful on the staff. The most funny thing is, people nowadays still use it, rather than just writing down the G and F.

Some time, people claim that the greatest designs are EVERLASTING. Seeing the Treble clef and Bass clef, I believe that they are right.

Works Cited

Meggs, Philip B., Purvis, Alston W., Meggs History of Graphic Design: Fifth Edition. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, 2012. Print.