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The Chinese invent paper which then spread across the knwon world at the time.
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Pi Sheng invents movable type, allowing for characters to be individually placed for printing.
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Europeans begin producing paper at a slow pace becasue of the papers low quality which proved unsuitable for any graphical designs for religious manuuscripts.
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Johann Gensfleisch zum Gutenburg credited with perfecting the system for printing type in books.
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Albrecht Pfister the first to add illustrations to a printed book.
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Lord Stanhope invents first printing press made of all cast-iron parts, requiring 1/10 the manual labor and doubling the possible paper size.
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Art Nouveau movement begins and changes design, making its way into all types of commercial design and utilizing all types of arts.
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Cave painting discovered in France date back to 23000 B.C.
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The term graphic designer first coined by American designer William Addison Dwiggens in 1922 and is today universally acknowledged as the title for the occupation of an artist engaged in communication or advertising design.
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In the early 9th century Archbishop Ebo of Rheims, at Hautvillers (near Rheims), assembled artists and transformed Carolingian art to something which evoked a revival of Roman classicism.
