2.+Graphic+Design+History


 * GRAPHIC DESIGN HISTORY**


 * 15,000 - 10,000 BC ** The first known visual communication, with pictographs and symbols in 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 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 news standard for Roman type.


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


 * 1722 ** First Caslon Old Style font developed, later used for the printing of the Declaration of Independence.


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


 * 1861 ** Williams 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.