Typography has developed as a symbol, which expresses a view of the world and form of life ever since the era of pre-historical cave paintings and it is deeply rooted in the design culture from 20th century as a main factor.
Most possible visual exper...
Typography has developed as a symbol, which expresses a view of the world and form of life ever since the era of pre-historical cave paintings and it is deeply rooted in the design culture from 20th century as a main factor.
Most possible visual experience to human in their daily life, such as newspaper, magazine, advertisement, movie or internet is the typography that is well known to ordinary people. It has role of means, specifically, to communicate via advertising for a todays culture.
Typography in era that had only put down visual image on paper works at once just as a text and image itself.
Typography has clearly been bringing its function of a sign much more than image under a flood of advertising.
Typography itself dose not show it just an image.
Typography has embodied digital world ahead of the times by a new trial for the expressions in two-dimension of three-dimensional movement since 1960s.
The expression of space movement on the screen is getting easier and easier with the help of the development of media and computer technology and its significance and field is expanded to the symbol which transferring image beyond of mere a text..
But the role of typography either press media or digital media is not different. Especially the importance of Internet advertising is getting larger and larger nowadays so that the role of typography is essential as a key media in order to show the products specifically and ideally.
If that's the case how we express the same message differently in press advertising and Internet advertising? In press advertising, typography uses the visual media only, while Internet advertising uses multimedia specificity by audio and visual image as well as moving factors.
Therefore, we can say digital technology which has developed with internet brought big changes to AD industry. It finally is needed to have a new idea of the symbolic role of typography in order to impart summarized message.
In this article I would like to study about the possibility for development of typography through the change of media environment by analysis of typographys major part for transferring message.