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History of Graphic Design

  • Jan 1, 1045

    Movable Type

    Movable Type
    a system of printing and typography. It was made in 1045 in China. It was also one of the first typing systems ever made.
  • Jan 1, 1530

    First Type Foundary

    First Type Foundary
    A type foundry is a company that designs and distributes typefaces. Type foundries sold metal and wood typefaces. Linotype and Monotype machines are designed to be printed on letterpress printers.
  • Industrial Revolution

    Industrial Revolution
    Textiles were the dominant industry of the Industrial Revolution. Textiles were also the first to use modern production methods.
  • Lithography

    Lithography
    Printing is from a stone (lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a smooth surface.
  • First Sans-Serif Font

    First Sans-Serif Font
    In print, sans-serif fonts are used for headlines instead of body text.
  • Halftone

    Halftone
    technique that makes tone imagery through the use of dots, Where tone imagery contains a range of colors or grey only one color of ink, in dots of differing size.
  • Computor Mouse

    Computor Mouse
    Douglas Carl Engelbart was the inventor of the computer mouse. Also an early computer and Internet pioneer.
  • First Machintosh

    First Machintosh
    The Macintosh 128K, released as the "Apple Macintosh". Its beige case was a 9 in 23 cm monitor and came with a keyboard and mouse.
  • Photoshop & the Internet

    Photoshop & the Internet
    Photoshop editing software, image editing. Now you can create photo mashups, and access your photos wherever you are.
  • Blau Monument

    Blau Monument
    The Blau Monuments are a pair of stone objects from Mesopotamia now in the British Museum. They are a form of anccient art (3600 BC)