Ancient Design and Type 25,000 BC
Red dots drawn on Spanish cave walls
15,000 BC
Symbols drawn in Lascaux caves in France
3000 BC
Early forms of writing
1500 BC
Hieroglyphic form of writing appears
900 BC
Greek Alphabet is formed
300 BC
Roman Alphabet is formed
500 AD
Middle Age Codex is used as form of reading
Ancient Design and Type (cont’d) 870 AD
Carolingian Miniscules is used for reading
1450 AD
Johannes Gutenburg perfects book printing
1454 AD
Gutenberg Bible is printed
1540 AD
Claude Garamond creates Garamond typeface
1734 AD
William Caslon creates Caslon typeface
1752 AD
John Baskerville creates Baskerville typeface
1708 AD
Giambattista Bodoni creates Bodoni typeface
Arts and Crafts Movement (1860) 1861
Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co founded by Morris
1871
John Ruskin publishes Fors Clavigera
1884
Art Workers Guild founded
1888
Arts and Crafts Society founded
1896
William Morris passes away
1896
School of Arts and Crafts founded
1910
Arts and Crafts movement Ends
Art Nouveau Movement (1890) 1890
Movement makes its way into commercial design
1893
Aubrey Beardsley design published in The Studio
1894
Claude Debussy completes L'après-midi d'une faune
1895
The Lumière brothers screen the first moving picture
1895
Siegfried Bing opens his gallery L'Art Nouveau
1900
Art Nouveau designs triumph at the World's Fair
1910
Art Nouveau movement ends
Constructivist Movement (1913) 1913
El Lissitzky journeys across Europe for inspiration
1918
El Lissitzky creates his first constructivist posters
1919
El Lissitzky begins teaching at Vitebsk
1921
Alexander Rodchenko starts to design posters
1925
El Lissitzky creates self-portrait The Constructor
1940
Constructivist movement ends
De Stijl Movement (1917) 1915
Theo van Doesburg Promotes De Stijl Movement
1917
Volume I of De Stijl Journal Published
1923
Theo van Doesburg Writes Brochure on Dada
1924
Rietveld Schrรถder House Built
1924
Van Doesburg and Mondrian Split
1931
De Stijl movement ends
Bauhaus Movement (1919) 1919
Bauhaus Shool founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar
1924
School moves to Dessau
1925
First series of Bauhaus books appear
1926
First issue of Bauhaus magazine is published
1933
School closes its doors due to Nazi pressure
1933
Bauhaus movement ends
International Style Movement (1950) 1934
Herbert Matter designs Swiss travel posters
1947
Ruder & Hofmann teach at Swiss design school
1953
Aicher & Bill found Ulm School of Design
1954
Adrian Frutiger designs Univers typeface
1957
Miedinger & Hoffmann design Helvetica typeface
1958
Neue Grafik journal is published
1965
Neue Grafik ends publipation and movement ends
Corporate Brand and Identity (1955) 1956
Paul Rand designs IBM logo
1960
Saul Bass designs opening credits for Psycho
1964
Kamekura designs posters for Olympics in Tokyo
1966
Milton Glaser designs Dylan poster
1969
Saul Bass creates AT&T logo
1970
Milton Glaser launches I Love New York campaign
1972
Massimo Vignelli designs New York Subway map
Digital Era (1980) 1976
Apple Inc. founded by Steve Jobs & Steve Wozniak
1982
Susan Kare designs famous fonts & logos for Apple
1984
Apple releases first Macintosh computer
1984
Emigre Type founded by VanderLans & Licko
1985
Manhattan Design firm creates MTV logo
1990
Version one of Photoshop is released
1990
Tim Berners develops world wide web and HTML
Dada Movement (1916) 1916
Cabaret Voltaire opens in Zurich
1917
Galerie Dada opens in Zurich
1917
Marcel Duchamp creates famous work Fountain
1921
New York Dada published
1923
Movement ends and shifts to Surrealism