Allaa E. Elbelassy

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The first known visual communication, with

pictographs and symbols in the Lascaux caves in

southern France.

Stone carving and figure

representation started

emerging

The Blau Monument,

the oldest artifact

known to combine

words and pictures

Chinese government official Ts’ai Lun credited with inventing paper

Pi Sheng invents movable type, allowing for characters to be individually placed for printing.

Johann

Gensfleisch

zum Gutenburg

credited with

perfecting the

system for

printing type in

books.

Albrecht Pfister the first to add illustrations to a printed book

Claude Garamond opens

first type foundry,

developing and selling fonts

to printers.

First Caslon Old Style font developed, later used for the printing of the Declaration of Independence.

Industrial

Revolution

begins, setting the

stage for advances

in graphic design

production.

Author Aloys Senefelder develops

lithography

Lord Stanhope invents first printing press

made of all cast-iron parts, requiring 1/10 the

manual labor and doubling the possible paper

size.

First sans-serif font makes a subtle entrance as one line of a book.

Arts and Crafts

Movement -

John Ruskin,

William

Morris, Gustav

Stickley.

Development of

halftone screen

allows for first

photo printed

with a full

range of tones.

Art Nouveau movement begins and changes design, making

its way into all types of commercial design and utilizing all

types of arts.

Frank Lloyd Wright -

'The Art and Craft of

the Machine'; basic

principles of

modern industrial

design; future

designers create

prototypes for

machine

production.

AEG (German General Electric). This is the beginning of ʻcorporate imageʼ.

Dada Movement. George Grosz, Hannah Hoch, Kurt Schwitters, Marx, Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, Andre Breton, Hans Arp.

The Art movement called De Stijl,

Dutch for ʻThe Styleʼ was on the

rise.

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

The Bauhaus, a German school, is founded, eventually providing the framework for modern design.

Constructivism movement

originated in Russia. El Lissitzky,

Alexander Rodchenko, Vladimir

Taltin, Naum Gabo.

Stanley Morison oversees

design of Times New Roman

font, commissioned by the

Times of London.

Swiss design: Armin Hofmann, Emil Ruder.

Paul Rand designs IBM logo using City Medium typeface

Max Miedinger

designs Neue Haas

Grotesk font, later

renamed Helvetica

First issue of “communication arts” magazine printed which was my semester presentation

Pop art; Pentagram

Design: Colin

Forbes, Theo Crosby;

Scandinavian

Designer: Alvar

Aalto