Roshazleeza Hadi: History of Graphic Design

15,000-10,000 BC : The first known visual communication, with pictographs and symbols is the Lascaux caves in Southern France.

3600 BC : The Blau Monument, the oldest artifact known to combine words and pictures.

105 AD : Chinese government official Ts'ai Lun or Cai Lun credited with inventing paper.

1045 AD : Pi Sheng invents movable type, allowing for characters to be individually placed for printing.

1276 : Printing arrives in Europe with a paper mill in Fabriano, Italy.

1450 : Johann Gensfleisch zum Gutenburg credited with perfecting the system for printing type in books.

1460 : Albrecht Pfister the first to add illustrations to a printed book.

1470 : Nicolas Jenson, considered one of history's greatest typeface designers, sets new standard for Roman type.

1530 : Claude Garamond opens first type foundry, developing and selling fonts to printers.

1722 : First Caslon Old Style font developed.

1760 : Industrial Revolution begins, setting the stage for advances in graphic design production.

1796 : Author Aloys Senefelder develops lithography.

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.

1816 : First San-Serif font makes a subtle entrance as one line of a book.

1860 : Arts and Crafts Movement - John Ruskin, William Morris, Gustav Stickley.

1861 : William Morris, who became a highly influential figure in design history, sets up art-decorating firm.

1880 : Development of halftone screen allows for first photo printed with a full range of tones.

1890 : Art Nouveau movement begins and changes design, making its way into all types of commercial design and utilizing all types of arts.

1901 : Frank Lloyd Wright - 'the Art and Craft of the Machine'; basic principles of modern industrial design; future designers create prototypes for machine production.

1910 : AEG (German general Electri). This is the beginning of 'corporate image'.

1916 : Dada Movement. George Grosz, Hannah Hoch, Kurt Schwitters, Marx, Ernts, Marcel Duchamp, Andre Breton, Hans Arp.

1917 : The Art movement called De Stijl, Dutch for 'The Style' was on the rise.

1919 : The Bauhaus, a German school, is founded, eventually providing the framework formodern design.

1919 : Constructivism movement originated in Russia, El Lissitzky, Alexander Rodchenko, Vladimir Taltin, Naum Gabo.

1932 : Stanley Morison oversees design of Times New Roman font, commissioned by the Times of London.

1947 : Swiss design: Armin Hofmann, Emil Ruder.

1950 : The New York School: Paul Rand, Alexey Brodovich, Henry Wolf, Herb Lubalin, George Lois.

1956 : Paul Rand designs IBM logo using City Medium typeface.

1957 : Max Miedinger designs Neue Haas Grotesk font, later renamed Helvetica.

1960 : Pop Art; Pentagram Design: Colin Forbes, Theo Crosby; Scandinavian Designer: Alvar Aalto.

1961 : Italian Designer: Ettore Sottsass, Memphis group Movement.

1968 : Post-Modernism: Wolfgang Weigart, Steff Geissbuhler, Odermatt & Tissi.

1969: Douglas Engelbart develops first computer mouse, setting the stage for the future tool of graphic design.

1970 : Corporate graphics: Olivetti, CBS, CIBA, Chase, Mobil.

1979 : New Wave: April Greiman, Kenneth Hiebert, Paula Scher.

1984 : Apple releases first Macintosh computer, featuring bitmap graphics.