Diseño digital

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En el mundo hay entre 4.500 y 6.000 lenguas. Son muchas. Todas menos cinco -entre ellas el vasco- se agrupan en diecinueve familias. A pesar de esta riqueza, hoy muchas están en peligro de extinción. Este libro explica cuál es el futuro de este patrimonio universal, como lo clasificamos y de qué manera podemos conservarlo. Aclara también como surgen nuevas lenguas: desde el esperanto al criollo.

Un interesante recorrido a través de la historia de la escritura desde sus orígenes hasta la época moderna, que nos revela cómo ha cambiado nuestra relación con la palabara escrita en la era digital. Desde las simples formas representativas que se usaban en el antiguo Egipto para registrar los trueques hasta los sofisticados recursos tipográficos disponibles en un ordenador del siglo XXI, podemos afirmar que los distintos periodos de la historia de la escritura conforman la historia de la civilización misma. En La historia de la escritura, Ewan Clayton analiza las distintas etapas de...

Painter, designer, creator of bizarre objects, author and film maker, Dalí became the most famous of the Surrealists. Buñuel, Lorca, Picasso and Breton all had a great influence on his career. Dalí's film, An Andalusian Dog, produced with Buñuel, marked his official entry into the tightly-knit group of Parisian Surrealists, where he met Gala, the woman who became his lifelong companion and his source of inspiration. But his relationship soon deteriorated until his final rift with André Breton in 1939. Nevertheless Dalí's art remained surrealist in its philosophy and expression and a...