GRAPHICS HISTORY

Liam Heeley

15,000 – 10,000 BC The very first known visual

communication with pictographs and symbols. This was in the lascaux caves in southern France

1276 Printing arrived in Europe with a paper

mill in Fabriano, which is in Italy

1460 Albrecht Pfister was the first to use movable

type by adding illustrations to a printed book

1530 Claude Garamond opened the first type

foundry, which sold and developed fonts to printers

1760 The industrial revolution started, which

set the stage for advances in graphics design

1880 The development of half tone screens

which allowed the first photo to be printed with a full range of tones

1910 The beginning of corporate images, by

AEG (German general electric)

1969 Douglas Engelbart developed the first

computer mouse, this therefore set the stage for graphics design

1984 Apple released the first Macintosh computer which

featured bitmap graphics The computer had a nine-inch screen and $2,500

price tag!

1990 The very first version of photoshop is released Adobe bought the license to distribute the program in

September 1988

GRAPHIC DESGINERS

Liam Heeley

Paul Rand 1914 – 1996 Paul was best known for his corporate

logo designs, these logos included ABC, morningstar and UPS

David Carson Born 1954 David is best known for his innovative

magazine design, he is also known for his experimental typography

Stefan Sagmeister Born 1962 Stefan co-founded the design firm called

Sagmeister

Paula Scher Born 1948 Paula was the first female principal at

Pentagram, in which she joined in 1991

Milton Glaser Born 1929 Glaser is a very well known and

appreciated graphics designer, he has designed the I NY logo and the ❤psychedelic Bob Dylan poster

Saul Bass 1920 – 1996 Saul was best known for his motion-

picture title sequences from many successful films

Neville Brody Born 1957 Brody is well known for his work on the

Face magazine and the Arena magazine

Alan Fletcher 1931 – 2006 Fletcher was so well known he was

descirbed by The Daily Telegraph as “the most highly regarded graphic designer of his generation”

Michael Bierut Born 1957 Michael was the vice president of

graphic design at Vignelli Associates

Chip Kidd Born 1964 Chip was best known for his innovative

book covers, for example ‘the cheese monkeys’ and ‘Batman: death by design’