The Graphic Design Time-line

The Graphic Design Timeline:

Graphic Design as we know it started out in the very beginning of time since the Stone Age when the cave-man drew pictures of them hunting animals etc but as humanity went along it took records of the ages and time and records of what happened. This is the time-line of Graphic Designer:

1465 - Gutenburg

1480 - Intaglio Printing

1750 – The Gothic revival

1798 - Stone Lithography

1814 - Grotesk typeface

1818 – Photo-engraving

1837 – Queen Victoria’s reign (Victorian Era)

1846- Rotary press

1850 – The Arts and Crafts Movement

1885 - The half tone process

1886 - The linotype

1890 - Art Nouveau

1908- The offset lithography

1917-  De stijl / Constructivism

1919 - Bauhaus

1925 - Art Deco

1930 – Swiss Style

1940 – The New York School Movement

            -Paul Rand (designer)

1950 - Saul Bass

1957 - Helvetica

1960 - Pop design — Milton Glaser / photo type setting

1970 - Psychedelia  / Digital type / Punk (Jamie Reid)

1984- The birth of the Macintosh

Artists - Wolfgang  Weinhart

               David Carson

               Stefan Sagmeister

                Paula Scher

This information was given to us by our lecturer during one of her lessons.