OUR FIRST TASK FOR BASIC GRAPHIC DESIGN WAS TO COMPILE THE WHOLE HISTORY OF GRAPHIC DESIGN INTO A TIMELINE. WE WERE TO DO THIS IN A GROUP AND MY AWESOME MEMBERS WERE NOOR WARDAH AND PAULINE. THEY BOTH WERE EXTREMELY COOPERATIVE.
30000-7000 BC
There are
hundreds of graphic designs of animals by the primitive people in the Chauvet
Cave, in the south of France,which were drawn more than 30,000 B.C. The image
of "Spotted Horses" ; painted by woman artists inside France's Pech
Merle cave dated 23,000 BC, as well as similar designs in the Lascaux cave of
France that were drawn more than 14,000 B.C. , the Altamira cave paintings of a
bison is between 9000 to 17000 BC, the designs of the primitive hunters in the
Bhimbetka rock shelters in India were drawn more than 7,000 B.C.
3600 BC
The Blau Monument, the oldest artifact known to combine words and pictures.
1276
Printing arrives in Europe with a paper mill in Fabriano, Italy.
1045 AD
Pi Sheng invents movable type, allowing for characters to be individually
placed for printing
105 AD
Chinese government official Ts’ai Lun credited with inventing paper.
1 Jan 1440
Gutenberg's
Printing Press
Johannes
Gutenberg completed his wooden press which used movable metal type.*This
invention was based on the wine press.
1450
Johann Gensfleisch zum Gutenburg credited with perfecting the system for
printing type in books.
30 Sep 1452
42 Line Bible
The Gutenberg Bible was the first
major book printed in the West using movable type. It marked the start of the
"Gutenberg Revolution" and the age of the printed book in the West.
1460
Albrecht Pfister the first to add illustrations to a printed book.
1470
Nicolas Jenson, considered one of history’s greatest typeface designers, sets
news standard for Roman type.
12 Jun
1493
Nuremberg
Chronicle
The Nuremberg Chronicle* written in Latin. Depicts
the history of the world with over 1800 beautiful woodcut illustrations, some
hand coloured*an estimated 1100 copies of this book survive today
1530
Claude Garamond opens first type foundry, developing and selling fonts to
printers.
1722
First Caslon Old Style font developed, later used for the printing of the
Declaration of Independence.
1 Jan 1757
Baskerville
* The Baskerville typeface is the
result of John Baskerville's intent to improve upon the types of William
Caslon. *Increased the contrast between thick and thin strokes, making the serifs
sharper. Severely criticised due to the thinness of the strokes. Critics
maintained that his type "hurt the eye" and would be
"responsible for blinding the nation".
1 Jan 1760
Fournier
* Pierre Simon Fournier was
type founder, punch cutter, type designer.
12 Oct 1760
Hokusai
* Katsushika Hokusai was a Japanese
artist, ukiyo-e(a school of Japanese art depicting subjects from everyday life,
dominant in the 17th–19th centuries.) painter and printmaker of the Edo period.
* Japan's leading expert on Chinese painting.
1796
Author Aloys Senefelder develops lithography(the process of printing from a
flat surface treated so as to repel the ink except where it is required for
printing.).
1 Jan 1798
Bodoni
*Giambattista Bodoni was the fourth
son of a master printer. He did away with old-style letters and introduced a
new clear simple
type - the Modern typeface- was
characterised by a severe simplicity.
1800
Lord Stanhope invents first printing press made of all cast-iron parts,
requiring 1/10 the manual labor and doubling the possible paper size.
1 Jan 1810
Brothers Grimm
* Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm best
known for publishing collections of folk tales and fairy tales*In 1812 the
Grimm brothers published their first volume of fairy tales, Tales of Children
and the Home.
1816
First sans-serif font makes a subtle entrance as one line of a book.
8 Feb 1819
John Ruskin
John Ruskin was an English art
critic and social thinker*His essays on art and architecture were extremely
influential.
9 Apr 1830
Muybridge
The First Motion Picture*Eadweard
J. Muybridge was an English photographer*known for his work on animal
locomotion, with use of multiple cameras to capture motion, and his
zoopraxiscope, a device for projecting motion pictures * At the Chicago 1893
World's Columbian Exposition, Muybridge used his zoopraxiscope to show his
moving pictures to a paying public in the very first commercial movie theater.
24 Mar
1834
William
Morris
* William Morris
was an English textile designer, artist, writer, and socialist. In 1861,
Morris founded a design firm which profoundly influenced the decoration of
churches and houses into the early 20th century.
31 May
1836
Jules
Cheret
* Jules
Chéret was a French painter and
lithographer * He has been called the
father of the modern poster. * The women of Chéret's posters were joyous,
elegant and lively free-spirited females. He was also called the father of
women's liberation.
9 Jan
1839
Daguerrotype
* A daguerreotype (original French: daguerréotype)
was the first large scale commercial photographic process.*It was developed by
Louis Daguerre and Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. Niepce had produced the first
photographic image in the camera obscura *
August 19, 1839, the French government announced the invention as a gift
“Free to the World.”
1 Jan
1846
Caldecott
* Randolph Caldecott transformed the world of
children's books in the Victorian era.* Two books illustrated by him,which came
out each Christmas for eight years.
1 Jan
1848
Pre-Raphealites
* a group of English painters, poets, and critics*
They believed that the Classical poses and elegant compositions of Raphael in
particular had been a corrupting influence on the academic teaching of art. *
have genuine ideas to express; study Nature attentively;to sympathise with what
is direct and serious and heartfelt. and produce thoroughly good pictures and
statues
19 Jun
1856
Elbert
Hubbard
* Elbert Green Hubbard was an American writer,
publisher, artist, and philosopher. *He was an influence on the Arts and Crafts
movement *most famous for his essay A Message to Garcia(The lieutenant
was charged with delivering an important message to a Cuban general, and did
not abandon his mission in the face of many obstacles.).* founder of the
Roycroft Arts and Crafts community which attracted earnest hard working young
men and women, pilgrims and admirers from all over the world who made
hand-illuminated books, Mission furniture, stained glass, leather goods, and
copper utensils
24 Nov
1864
Toulouse
Lautrec
* Toulouse-Lautrec captured in his art the Parisian
nightlife * the son and heir of Comte Alphonse-Charles de Toulouse and last in
line of a family that dated back a thousand years.
1880
Development of halftone screen allows for first photo printed with a full range
of tones.
1880
- 1914
Art Nouveau movement begins and changes design, making its way into all types
of commercial design and utilizing all types of arts.
1896
Motion
Picture
Introduction
of motion picture was a huge breakthrough in design industry.
1917
James Montgomery Flagg designs famous “I Want YOU for the U.S. Army” poster.
The poster, a self-portrait, was actually an American version of a British
poster by Alfred Leete.
1919
The Bauhaus, a German school, is founded, eventually providing the framework
for modern design.
1932
Stanley Morison oversees design of Times New Roman font, commissioned by
the Times of London.
1940
First issue of Print Magazine printed.
1956
Paul Rand designs IBM logo using City Medium typeface
1957
Max Miedinger designs Neue Haas Grotesk font, later renamed Helvetica.
1969
Douglas Engelbart develops first computer mouse, setting the stage for the
future tool of graphic design.
1984
Apple releases first Macintosh computer, featuring bitmap graphics.
1985
Aldus, formed by Paul Brainerd, develops PageMaker software. Brainerd coins the
phrase “desktop publishing.” In the same year, New York firm Manhattan Design
creates the MTV logo.
1990
Photoshop version one released, and physicist Tim Berners-Lee develops the
world wide web, along with HTML and the concept of website addresses
24 Jul
1860
Alphonse
Mucha
* A Czech Art
Nouveau painter and decorative artist best known for his distinct style and his
images of women. * featured beautiful, robust young women in flowing vaguely
Neoclassical looking robes, often surrounded by lush flowers which sometimes
formed haloes behind the women's heads. * In contrast with contemporary poster
makers he used pale pastel colors
6 Jan
1861
Victor
Horta
* Belgian art nouveau architect, decorator and
designer* His building "House Tassel" is considered as the first Art
Nouveau building.
14 Jul
1862
Gustav
Klimt
* Austrian Symbolist painter and one of the most
prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. * Gustav Klimt is a
precursor to Nouveau, and German Expressionism.