Monday 26 January 2015

Graphic Design Timeline

15000BC – 2000BC - Pre-History - Cave Painting
 - Used to paint animal and human forms to communicate that living form live here

2000BC-1000BC - Use Of Hieroglyphs And Chinese Characters
  - Egyptian hieroglyphic system consists of of signs that represent recognizable objects
  - Chinese characters intended to symbolize logical or abstract terms

1399 – 1799 - Celtic Art - Illuminated manuscripts
 -Highly decorated
 - Initial decorating
 - borders
 - miniature illustrations.

1400 – Gutenberg
 - Printing invention in Europe
 - Block Printing
 - Faster book producing process
 - Mass production in books

1500 – Printing All Over
 - Just by 100 years after Gutenberg’s famous book printing, printing was being practised over 150 towns

1400 – 1600 – Renaissance
 - Progress in type design
 - Ornaments
 - connecting Illustration and type
 - serif and Roman type

1700 – 1850 – Graphic Design & The Industrial Revolution

1800 – 1950 – Arts & Crafts Movement
 - Book design renaissance began
 - Commercial Production
 - William Morris; Leader of arts and crafts movement

1808 – 1901 – Art Nouveau
 - Trade between Asia and Europe
 - Culture Collision
 - Change in art & graphic design

1896 – 1972 – Beginning of 20th Century design
 - Neo-Classical revival
 - Greek and Roman forms

1900 – 1930 – The Influence Of Modern Art
 - Europe countries form monarchy replaced by democracy, socialism and communism
 - Advance in technology and science
 -  1885; first car, 1896; motion picture, 1895; radio transition, 1903; first airplane

1900 – 1925 – Pictorial Modernism
 - Communication of 1890 posters
 - Cubism and constructivism influence

1910 – 1930 – New Language of Form (Post War)
 - Holland and Russia formal typographic approach to graphic design

1920 – 1933 – Bauhaus and The New Typography
 - Communicative potential
 - letterforms and typographic layouts
 - sans-serif fonts
 - Grid use

1936 – 1955 – International typographic style
 - cleanliness,
 - readability
 - asymmetric layouts
 -
use of a grid
 - 
sans-serif typefaces
 - flush left, ragged right text.

1945 – 1970 – The New York School
 - symbolic and expressive as a visual-communication
 -
Simplicity
 - direct presentation of information
 - expression of ideas

1975 – 1985 – Post Modern Design
 - collages
 -  experimental photography
 - dramatic design
 - boldness
 - block colouring
 - experimental with type
 -There isn't a specific grid system

1990 – 2015 – The Digital Revolution
 - replaced (reduced) manufacturing

 - information design
 - data-driven digital revolution 
 - Digital media




Graphic Design History Timeline. 2015. Graphic Design History Timeline. [ONLINE] Available at: http://gdh.2rsolutions.cz/. [Accessed 24 January 2015].
. 2015. . [ONLINE] Available at:https://m1.behance.net/rendition/modules/42862805/disp/6ad4f8d66e3ed9350afe402d1dbb01d0.jpg. [Accessed 46 January 2015].

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