1. Graphic Design History [a short]

2. What is it? Where does it come from?

3. Cave paintings at Lascaux France 15,000 – 10,000 B.C. Painted using mineral pigments during the Paleolithic times.

4. Egyptian Hieroglyphics 3300 B.C. Symbolic pictures Fully deciphered 1820’s

5. Book of Kells 8 th and 9 th centuries Created by Celtic Monks Hand lettering, silver and gold accents, elaborate illustrations

6. Guttenberg Bible 1450’s The first major work of literature to be printed on movable-type printing press Named for inventor Johannes Guttenberg

7. Garamond Font 1530 Claude Garamond Opened the first type foundry, a workshop that sold fonts to printers

8. The American Flag 1777 Betsy Ross design became the basis for the modern American flag.

9. Logo for Coca-Cola 1886 Rumored to be by John S. Pemberton, company founder Coupon from 1900

10. Poster by Alphones Mucha 1890 Art Nouveau Movement Letters often painted into art

11. Poster by Alexander Rodchenko 1919 Russian Constructivism movement Bold, new graphic language used for advancing social and political causes

12. Poster for the Bauhaus School of Design 1919 School in Weinmar, Germany known for embracing all of design disciplines, including crafts, architecture, painting, and typography A new era of simplicity

13. Book design for the Time Machine W.A. Dwigging 1922 Coined the term, graphic design

14. Helvetica1957 Max Meidiger Designed the Neue Haas Grotesk font Renamed Helvetica One of the most used type faces

15. Colorfoms Logo – 1959 Paul Rand The simplicity of the Bauhaus ideals brought to a mass audience of kids

16. Bob Dylan Poster – 1967 Milton Glazer Glazer and Push Pins Studios created a number of poster and magazine designs. psychedelic

17. New York City Subway map 1972 Massimo Vignelli Designed to be easily understood Simplification labeling system

18. The first apple computer 1984 Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniac User friendly design for consumers who were not computer-savvy

19. Adobe Photoshop version 1 1989 A way to manipulate photographic images that had never been used

20. The World Wide Web 1990 Tim Berners-Lee Developed with HTML, HTTP, and website addresses

21. Barack Obama “O” logo 2007 Designed by Chicago-based firm Sender LLC Negative space logo symbolizing the president’s political campaign

22. This presentation is for educational purposes only. To view its source material, please purchase “Go, A Kidd’s Guide to Graphic Design” by Chip Kidd