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 * Article Due!(December 8th)
 * 1200-2000 words added from the original state.
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 * Students have finished all their work on Wikipedia that will be considered for grading, and have submitted reflective essays.
 * Course instructor (Michael Mandiberg) will do the final assessment of your work after December 15 (beginning of the finals week), but all work for credit on the articles must be complete by December 8th. Theredproject (talk)

Article suggestions
the following names are stub articles that I feel can be used for our research
 * William Caslon
 * Vincent Figgins
 * Nicholas Jenson

Summary of topics
Philippe Grandjean - Born 1666 — died 1714, Paris, France), He was French type engraver particularly noted for his famous series of roman and italic types known as Romain du Roi. The design was commissioned in 1692 for the Imprimerie Royale (royal printing house) of King Louis XIV and was carried out by a committee of mathematicians, philosophers, and others, who produced carefully worked-out drawings. The type itself was cut by Grandjean; he achieved a modern look by using thin flat serifs and virtually eliminating the brackets joining them to the main strokes.

Reserved for use by the Imprimerie Royale, Romain du Roi made its first appearance in the magnificent Médailles sur les principaux énvenémens du règne de Louis-le-Grand (1702). The success of the type soon prompted many other typefounders to use modifications of it. Work on the type was continued by Grandjean’s pupil Jean Alexandre and completed by Louis Luce in 1745.

William Caslon - Born 1692 in Cradley, Worcestershire, William Caslon practiced gunsmithing and engraving in his early days. He began working as an apprentice of a London engraver of barrels and gunlocks, later he would open his own shop utilizing his engraving skills and more. He was persuaded into taking up type design, by a printer named William Bowyer. It was William Bowyer who talked Caslon into starting type designing and printing.The style of his type face was inspired by old roman style.

The characteristics included thin to thick stroke relationship, which resulted in an easier to read type face.Caslon served as a start point for Baskerville, which had thinner strokes. The two type faces became known as a transitional style, constructed by geometrical means. Through these works Caslon became known as one of the famous type designers of the 18th century.

Vincent Figgins - (1766 - 1844) At age 16 he became an apprentice with Joseph Jackson of London, before starting his own type founding company in Holborn, London. His first important commission was to make a facsimile type for Macklin's Bible. He followed this by producing a number of Roman types for English and Scottish printers. He is best remembered for creating the typeface "Egiziano Black", the first ever Egyptian, or "slab serif" typeface. He also designed "Monotype Ionic" in 1821, which was to become the model for many twentieth century newspaper typefaces.

CASLON
I posted suggestions on my page. You have Vincent Figgins too. Love it. --X3Kimmie

Research Sources
NICOLAS JENSON: (can be found on nicolas jenson's discussion page)


 * Meggs, Philip B., Purvis, Alston W.History of Graphic Design. Hoboken, N.J: Wiley, 2006.


 * "Nicolas Jenson." Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica, 2011. Web. 12 Oct. 2011. .


 * Jenson, Nicolas, ca. 1420-1480. The last will and testament of the late Nicolas Jenson, printer, who departed this life at the city of Venice in the month of September, A.D. 1480. [Chicago, Ludlow typograph co., 1928] 15 p. 30 cm

Lowry, Martin.
 * Jenson, Nicolas, ca. 1420-1480. Pliny the Elder: historia naturalis[S.l. : s.n. ; 19--]

Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, Mass., USA : B. Blackwell, 1991. xvii, 286 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
 * Nicholas Jenson and the rise of Venetian publishing in Renaissance Europe / Martin Lowry.


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 * Gross, Hanns. "Nicholas Jenson and the Rise of Venetian Publishing in Renaissance Europe." January 1, 1993 


 * You are very active. Good work. Be sure to sign your entries on all talk pages! Also, it helps to add links to the pages when you refer to them, as you do above with Nicolas Jenson and William Caslon (see how these are linked, and that makes it easier!--Theredproject (talk) 01:13, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

Encyclopedia of Journalism. Ed. Christopher H. Sterling. Vol. 4. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Reference, 2009. p1405-1409.Word Count:2718.
 * Type and Typography. Jim Martin.

New Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 2. 2nd ed. Detroit: Gale, 2003. p520-524.Word Count:3393.
 * Book, the Printed. V. E. LEWIS.

and some typographic examples held at the Brooklyn Public Library under - Kurt H. Volk Inc. "Master Typographers of the Ages."
 * Bullen, Henry Lewis. Nicolas Jenson, Printer of Venice: His famous type designs and some comment upon the printing types of earlier printers. San Francisco. Printed by John Henry Nash.(1926)


 * An Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques Throughout History by Friedrich Friedl, Nicolaus Ott (Editor), Bernard Stein, published by Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft mbH

copyvio on your article
Token718 you have extensive copyright violation infractions on your page. I posted this to the talk page for the article, but I am adding it here, b/c I don't think you have seen it. Please see Copy-paste for more details on what you can and cannot do in WP's guidelines. But from the perspective of academic integrity, you must know very well that you cannot plagiarize text from other sources, even if you have cited it, as you have done here. You have a chance to correct this, by paraphrasing the information from your sources, and citing them. Right now, you have merely copied and pasted text from your sources. This is not acceptable.--Theredproject (talk) 21:28, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

Your addition to Nicolas Jenson has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text, or images borrowed from other websites, or printed material without a verifiable license; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of article content, such as sentences or images&mdash;you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. --朝彦 (Asahiko) (talk) 13:21, 4 November 2012 (UTC)