The British Museum
On Saturday I went to the British Museum. It was the second time I have been. After going with my younger brothers visiting London and having a quick scan of everything and then leaving to do something more ‘interesting’, I wanted to go back and read the information more purposefully. I decided to go to the section dedicated to Ancient Mesopotamia from 1500 to 600 BC.
I was really interested in the writing on the tablets, which I saw in a display of the first library of the King Ashurbanipal. The language (The University of Cambridge, no date) has ‘come down to us in the “cuneiform” (i.e. wedge-shaped) script’ which was written onto predominantly clay tablets.
For me it reminded me that communication, in a written and picture form, has been an integral part of civilization and community in order to get across a message or information. This links to what I’m studying as it grants me a wider historical context of the ‘communication’ part of ‘graphic design communication’.
I also noticed that the murals designed to go on walls of palaces were designed to communicate a narrative to the audience, which is similar to some of the work I do.
Taken from https://blog.britishmuseum.org/who-was-ashurbanipal/
Next time I go to a museum on Saturday I would like to take more photos and take note of different design elements incorporated in the museum.
Reference: The University of Cambridge (No date) Mesopotamian Languages . Available at: https://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/about-us/mesopotamia/mesopotamia-history/mesopotamia-languages (Accessed: 4/8/21)