Timeline

Lascaux Caves, Southern France 15000 - 10000

BCE

Blau Monument 3600

Invention of paper 105

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CE

Movable type 1045

First paper mill in Europe 1276

1400

Gutenburg Printing Press 1447

1400

1500

First type foundry, Claude Garamond 1530

1500

1600

First industrial Revolution 1760

1700

Lithography 1796

1800

Linotype machine 1886 First sans serif used in print 1816

the Great Exhibition in the Crystal Palace 1851

Morris sets up art-decorating firm 1861

Halftone screen in photo production 1880

Belle Epoch 1890s

1900

1800

1800 Cast-iron printing press

1890 Art Nouveau

1860 Arts and Crafts 1884 Flexible FIlm

1896 Motion Picture

Great Depression 1929

I Want You for the U.S, Army poster 1917 Modernism 1910

Print Magazine 1940

New Typography 1930

Constructivism and Bauhaus 1920s

London Underground Map, Harry Beck 1931

Photoshop 1990

Vietnam War 1955-75 Helvetica and color television 1951

Pop Art 1960s

Emigre 1984

2000

1900

1916 Dada and De Stijl 1919 Bauhaus est.

1900 Cubism 1914-18 WWI

1928 Gill Sans

1940 New York School /Ab Ex

1932 Times New Roman

1939-45 WWII

1950s International Style 1956 IMB logo, Paul Rand

1969 First computer mouse

1984 First Mac released 1985 MTV logo 1995 Internet