The History of Graphic Design

Prasanya Giri

1800

1800’S

1800- Lord Stanhope invents the first printing press made of all cast iron parts, requiring 1/10 the manual labor and doubling

the possible paper size.

1860

1860Arts and Crafts

Movement – John Ruskin, William Morris, Gustav

Stickley.

William Morris became a highly

influential figure in design history, sets up

art decorating firm. 1890

1890Art Nouveau

movement begins and changes design,

making its way into all types of commercial

design and utilizing all types of arts.

1901

1901Frank Lloyd Wright- The

Art and Craft of the Machine; basic principles

of modern industrial design; future designers

create prototypes for machine production.

1916

1916Dada Movement

George Grosz, Hannah Hoch, Kurt Schwitters,

Marx, Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, Andre

Breton, Hans Arp.

1919

1919The Bauhaus, a German

school, is founded, eventually providing the framework for modern

design.

Constructivism movement organised in Russia.

1960

1960POP ART- Pentagram

Design: Colin Forbes, Theo Crosby; Scandinavian Designer: Alvar Aalto.

Italian Designer: Ettore Scottsass, Memphis group

Movement.

1990

1990Drag picture to placeholder or click icon to add

1990- Photoshop version one released, and physicist Tim Berners Lee develops the

world wide web, along with HTML and the concept of

website addresses.

1991

1991Tim Berners lee

develops the world wide web, along with

HTML and the concept of website

addresses.

2000

EARLY 2000’S

The bird logo for the 2000 summer

Olympics featured a stylized image of the Sydney Opera House