History Of Graphic Design Timeline Sheldon Jackson
Arts & Crafts 1860-1900 1861
Morris sets up art decorating firm
Dante Gabriel Rosseti The Four Macks Kelmscott Press William Morris William Pickering
1879
Electric Lamp Thomas Edison
1886
1860
1876
Telephone Alexander Graham Bell
1880
development of half tone screen
1884
Flexible Film for Multiple Images George Eastman
The First Poster Eugene Grasset & linotype machine
1900
Art Nouveau 1880-1914
Jules ChĂŠret Eugene Grasset H. De Toulouse-Lautrec Alphonse Mucha William Bradley
1886
1880
development of half tone screen
1884
Flexible Film for Multiple Images George Eastman
The First Poster Eugene Grasset & linotype machine
1890
1896
First Motion Picture
1900
Vienna Secession and New Objectivity 1890-1930
1914 WWI
1890
1896
First Motion Picture
1903
Flight Wright Brothers
1909 1910 1913
Analytical Synthetic Cubism Cubism & NZZP is formed
1922
USSR Formed
1920
1923
Women Hitler Writes Vote Mein Kampf
1929
The Great Depression
1930
Pictorial Modernism and Plakastil 1900-1930
1913
Synthetic Cubism
1900 1903
Flight Wright Brothers
1909
Analytical Cubism & NZZP is formed
Beggarstaffs Lucian Bernhard Hans Rudi Erdt Julius Klinger Ludwig Hohlwein
1922
USSR Formed
1920
Women Vote
1923
Hitler Writes Mein Kampf
1929
The Great Depression
1930
Futurism, Dada, and Surrealism 1900-1930
1900
Forunato Depero Marcel Duchamp Kurt Schwitters John Heartfield Man Ray
1917
Russian Revolution
1919
Gropius Founds Weimer Bauhaus
1920
1930
Constructivism 1917-1923
1917
Russian Revolution
Alexander Rodchenko Vavara Stepanova Gustav Klutsis El Lissitzky Stenberg Brothers
1919
Gropius Founds Weimer Bauhaus
1920
1923
Art Deco and De Stijl 1911-1931
1911
A. M. Cassandre Jean Carlu Paul Colin Piet Mondrian Theo Van Doesburg
1917
1919
Gropius Founds Russian Revolution Weimer Bauhaus
1928
1st Motion Picture
1920
1927
Futura Font
1931
Bauhaus 1918-1932
1918
1919
Gropius Founds Weimer Bauhaus
Walter Gropius Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Herbert Bayer Vasily Kandinsky Joos Schmidt
1928
1st Motion Picture
1925
1927
Futura Font
1932
Times New Roman Font
Roots of Modern American Design 1925-1950 1928
1st Motion Picture
1925
1927
Futura Font
1933
1936
1st Comic Book Roosevelt in USA Reelected
1932
Times New Roman Font
1935
1939 WWII
1950
New Typography 1927-1950 1928
1st Motion Picture
1927
1933
1st Comic Book in USA
1932
Times New Roman Font
1936
Roosevelt Reelected
1939 WWII
1940
1945
United Nations Formed
1950
International Typographic Style 1950-1984 1951
Color TV
1952
UK Independent Group formed in London
1950
1955
Vietnam War
Max Bill Anton Stankowski Armin Hoffman J. M端ller-Brockmann Jacquelin Casey
1975
1984
Pop Art 1956-1980
1956
Andy Warhol Roy Lichtenstein Jasper Johns Eduardo Palozzi Tom Wesselmann
1964
Warhol’s Campbell’s Tomato Juicebox
1970
1980
Psychedelic Movement 1957-1974
1957
Victor Moscoso Wes Wilson Milton Glaser Peter Max Stanley Mouse
1967
The Summer of Love
1965
1974
Graffiti and Street Art 1971-2000
1971
Banksy Blek Le Rat Swoon Michael Tracy Klaus Winkler
1998
1985
1991
Cold War is Over
1995
Internet
2000
Post Modernism 1975-2000
1975
April Greiman Wolfgang Weingart Michael Graves Allen Wong Kasuma Nagai
1984
First Macintosh
1991
1998
Cold War is Over
1990
1995
Internet
2000
Information Visualization 1975-2000
1975
Benjamin Fry Bradford Paley George Legrady Edward Tufte
1984
First Macintosh
1991
1998
Cold War is Over
1990
1995
Internet
2000
Questions and Answers Graphic Design
Q. how does the invention of the internet and the world wide web compare to the invention of the printing press? A. the printing press made information easier spread, but the internet made information spread in seconds. You can instantly be updated with the internet.
Q. taking into consideration the text of the First Things First Manifesto, what do you think that are the three biggest challenges that graphic design is facing today? A. 1) trying to make money and remaining true to your values. 2) avoiding the creation of things that are harmful to society 3) remaining nuetral when designing for “hot topic issues�
Q. in a world of computers with fonts, graphic templates of all sorts, and royalty free images, what is the new role of the designer? A. these are just tools to make things easier for designers. it is up to the designer to take these tools and apply them to new and creative techniques and methods. With new technology comes new invention.