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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’