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During the Middle Ages, typography started to take off as humanity started to expand its aesthetic horizons into letters and words.
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The printing press gave way to "corantos" which were the precursors to newspaper. These corantos featured the first printed ads.
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The Weiner Werkstätte is the first Agency to make contributions to design style and business alike.
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The term "Graphic Design" first appeared on an essay by William Addison Dwiggins called “New Kind of Printing Calls for New Design.”
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Postmodernism emerged as an evolution from and rebellion against modernist ideas. Postmodernism doesn't subscribe to a certain set of ideals but they often questioned authority, and flipped ideas on their heads.
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Digital tools started to appear around the late 20th century which provided new ways to create and distributing graphic designs. Adobe Photoshop and Microsoft Art were made around this time.
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Graphic Design is being used in many things today like soda cans and posters. Mostly everyone has used graphic design on a computer. The future will most likely have graphic design as well!