Design Timeline

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    Industrial Revolution begins.

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    Arts and craft movement

  • South African diamonds discovered

    South African diamonds discovered

  • Suez Canal opens

    Suez Canal opens

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    Aesthetic Movemont

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    Art Nouveau

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    Vienna Secession

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    Pioneer Modernism

  • Russo – Japenese War

    Russo – Japenese War

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    Machine Age

  • Patent for first electric vacuum cleaner is lodged

    Patent for first electric vacuum cleaner is lodged

  • Enrico Caruso’s first gramophone recording

    Enrico Caruso’s first gramophone recording

  • First Flight by Orville Wright

    First Flight by Orville Wright

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    Fauvsim

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    Expressionism

  • Albert Einstein submits theory E=MC2

    Albert Einstein submits theory E=MC2

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    Deutscher Werkbund

  • Second Hague Peace Conference of 46 nations, adopts 10 conventions on rules of war.

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

  • Converse Rubber Shoe Company is established

    Converse Rubber Shoe Company is established

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    Futurism

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    Cubism

  • First use of aircraft as offensive weapon in Turkish-Italian War.

    First use of aircraft as offensive weapon in Turkish-Italian War.

  • Balkan War

    Balkan War

  • First Model –T Ford produced

    First Model –T Ford produced

  • Oskar Barnack produces prototype of the Leica I 35mm film

    Oskar Barnack produces prototype of the Leica I 35mm film

  • Suffragists demonstrate in London. Garment workers strike in New York and Boston

    Suffragists demonstrate in London. Garment workers strike in New York and Boston

  • World War I begins

    World War I begins

  • Patent for the neon tube is granted

    Patent for the neon tube is granted

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    Dada

  • Light switch invented

    Light switch invented

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    Constructivism

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    De Stijl

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    Destijl

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    Bauhaus

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    International Style

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    Art Deco

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    Surrealism

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    Modernism

  • First radio ‘wireless’ broadcasts begin

    First radio ‘wireless’ broadcasts begin

  • Alexander Fleming Discovers Penicillin

    Alexander Fleming Discovers Penicillin

  • The Great Depression

    The Great Depression

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    Streamline

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    Organic Design and Biomorphism

  • Industrial design profession begins

    Industrial design profession begins

    Raymond Loewy begins styling products
    Bauhaus moves to Dessau
    Leica I 35mm camera released
  • World War II begins

    World War II begins

  • Bauhaus moves to Berlin

    Bauhaus moves to Berlin

  • PVC, polystyrene, Perspex and polythene developed

    PVC, polystyrene, Perspex and polythene developed

  • CAD developed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    CAD developed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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    Pop

  • Vietnam war

    Vietnam war

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    New Realism

  • Space age begins with launch of sputnik

    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.
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    Postmodern Design

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    Minimal Art

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    Conceptual Art / Symbolism

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    Radical Design and Anti Design

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    Eco Design

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    Punk

  • Woodstock Music and Art Festival

    Woodstock Music and Art Festival

  • Nuclear power plant accident at Three Mile Island

    Nuclear power plant accident at Three Mile Island

  • Information Age begins

    Information Age begins

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    Memphis

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    Digital Design

  • World Wide Web becomes global network

    World Wide Web becomes global network

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