Timeline: the development of Modern English

This my interpretation of the development of Modern English. The timeline start with Cuneiform and goes to present. All information courtesy for ilovetypography.com, Wikipedia, and Britannica Encyclopedia. Images courtesy of ilovetypography.com for this educational exercise. Follow the arrows and have fun!

Sketch for Digital Language Timeline

These are some of my sketches for our digital timeline project. Currently, I am thinking of creating the timeline as a sort of maze through the history of language. I often include notes/comments with my sketches to write ideas and process thoughts.

Completed First Header

This is my first completed header. After our class critique today, I decided to pay closer attention to kerning and leading of my hand drawn type. I felt the previous abstracted Grecian urn that I used for the background of my last header did not emulate ancient Greek culture as clearly as it needed. For this edited image, I looked more closely at the detail of Grecian urns. I created an illustration based on details I saw on Grecian urns. I also re-visited the palette of the design, and decided on a color palette that is more cohesive with the theme of my blog.

Completed Draft: Ancient Greek

Header Draft: Ancient Greek

Draft for header design based on Ancient Greek