Wednesday, February 4

In our first class session of History of Graphic Design we discussed the first methods of communication by the human race. We learned that cave drawings and paintings was a big part in how people communicated their ideas, thoughts, and needs, like hunting for example. We also did an activity to see the challenges behind communication between others without using any known language, only clay images. I feel that the experience of trying to create a message out of clay, without numbers or letters, with the intention of others understanding the meaning and trying to understand what other people were trying to say with their clay figures was the most important thing I obtained from the class session. It's not easy to communicate without using language and I think it's important that we understand that. After seeing the pictures that were first used, I wonder when humans first started to use language, of any kind, and when we first started to write. What did our first letters look like? What kind of language did we speak?