Timeline: Design Timeline | Timetoast

Period: May 4, 1760 to May 4, 2014

Industrial Revolution begins.
Period: May 4, 1850 to May 4, 1914

Arts and craft movement
May 5, 1867

South African diamonds discovered
May 5, 1869

Suez Canal opens
Period: May 4, 1870 to May 4, 1900

Aesthetic Movemont
Period: May 4, 1880 to May 4, 1910

Art Nouveau
Period: May 4, 1897 to May 4, 1905

Vienna Secession
Period: May 4, 1900 to May 4, 1930

Pioneer Modernism
May 5, 1900

Russo – Japenese War
Period: May 5, 1900 to May 5, 1945

Machine Age
May 5, 1901

Patent for first electric vacuum cleaner is lodged
May 5, 1902

Enrico Caruso’s first gramophone recording
May 5, 1903

First Flight by Orville Wright
Period: May 4, 1905 to May 4, 1950

Fauvsim
Period: May 4, 1905 to May 5, 2014

Expressionism
May 5, 1905

Albert Einstein submits theory E=MC2
Period: May 4, 1907 to May 4, 1935

Deutscher Werkbund
May 5, 1907

Second Hague Peace Conference of 46 nations, adopts 10 conventions on rules of war.
May 5, 1908

Converse Rubber Shoe Company is established
Period: May 4, 1909 to May 4, 1930

Futurism
Period: May 4, 1910 to May 4, 1920

Cubism
May 5, 1911

First use of aircraft as offensive weapon in Turkish-Italian War.
May 5, 1912

Balkan War
May 5, 1913

First Model –T Ford produced
May 5, 1913

Oskar Barnack produces prototype of the Leica I 35mm film
May 5, 1913

Suffragists demonstrate in London. Garment workers strike in New York and Boston
May 5, 1914

World War I begins
May 5, 1915

Patent for the neon tube is granted
Period: May 4, 1916 to May 4, 1923

Dada
May 5, 1916

Light switch invented
Period: May 4, 1917 to May 4, 1935

Constructivism
Period: May 4, 1917 to May 4, 1931

De Stijl
Period: May 4, 1917 to May 4, 1932

Destijl
Period: May 4, 1919 to May 4, 1933

Bauhaus
Period: May 4, 1920 to May 4, 1980

International Style
Period: May 4, 1920 to May 4, 1939

Art Deco
Period: May 4, 1920 to May 4, 1930

Surrealism
Period: May 4, 1920 to May 4, 1945

Modernism
May 5, 1920

First radio ‘wireless’ broadcasts begin
May 5, 1928

Alexander Fleming Discovers Penicillin
May 5, 1929

The Great Depression
Period: May 4, 1930 to May 4, 1960

Streamline
Period: May 4, 1930 to May 4, 1960

Organic Design and Biomorphism
May 5, 1930

Industrial design profession begins

Raymond Loewy begins styling products
Bauhaus moves to Dessau
Leica I 35mm camera released
May 5, 1939

World War II begins
May 5, 1940

Bauhaus moves to Berlin
May 5, 1940

PVC, polystyrene, Perspex and polythene developed
May 5, 1950

CAD developed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Period: May 4, 1958 to May 4, 1970

Pop
May 5, 1959

Vietnam war
Period: May 4, 1960 to May 4, 1970

New Realism
May 5, 1960

Space age begins with launch of sputnik

Helvetica designed by Max Miedinger
Communist China and Soviet Union split in conflict over Communist ideology. Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria, Madagascar and Zaire(Belgian Congo) gain independence.
Period: May 4, 1965 to May 4, 2014

Postmodern Design
Period: May 4, 1965 to May 4, 1975

Minimal Art
Period: May 4, 1967 to May 4, 2014

Conceptual Art / Symbolism
Period: May 4, 1968 to May 4, 1978

Radical Design and Anti Design
Period: May 4, 1970 to May 4, 2014

Eco Design
Period: May 4, 1970 to May 7, 1985

Punk
May 5, 1970

Woodstock Music and Art Festival
May 5, 1979

Nuclear power plant accident at Three Mile Island
May 5, 1980

Information Age begins
Period: May 4, 1981 to May 4, 1988

Memphis
Period: May 4, 1984 to May 4, 2014

Digital Design
May 5, 1990

World Wide Web becomes global network