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The name of this post is the name of the first chapter we are diving into this year. Obviously the authors of this book realized that the industrial revolution wasn't boring enough in the junior grades of high school so they tried to jazz it up by adding "Graphic Design" to the term (seeing as that is what I'm studying) and force feed it to us again. I can honestly say that the only thing I could remember about the Industrial Revolution before starting this chapter is steam and a lot of child labor. Turns out that there was more to it than massive amounts of environmental pollution, the development of the first slums, socialism, imperialism and the inhumanely low wages of the employees who worked horrible hours. All of the above started because of something called The Enlightment. This was a movement of the 17th and 18th century where reason, logic, criticism and freedom of thought were stressed. This contrasted with the leading religions an...

This is my first blog. This is certainly not my idea of an ideal topic for my first blog but my history lecturer thought it's an excellent idea to blog about a subject that I immediately stopped taking at school the moment I got that chance.  Let me paint you a picture, seeing as I'm an artist rather than an historian.... you know that student at the back of history class who looks at the lecturer with no soul in their eyes while he's jabbering away about some gentleman like Joseph Niepce who produced the first photographic image or Friedrich Koenig who invented the first ever steam-powered printing press? That student that nods at the right times trying to seem, or even be, interested but epically fails by zoning out completely to topics like the drive to college that morning or why your lecturer always wears black? That student who, when they return from their zoning out trip, realizes the class progressed 5 pages in the textbook and then plays games with them...