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Visual communication go up to cavemen time. -
The first written languages was in the form of iconography carved in the stone. -
Then later begin the calligraphy. -
Blackletter (also known as Gothic) and its variation Rotunda, gradually developed from the Carolingian hand during the 12th century. Over the next three centuries, the scribes in northern Europe used an ever more compressed and spiky form of Gothic. -
Heraldry is a discipline relating to the design, display and study of armorial bearings (known as armory) -
In Germany, around 1440, the goldsmith Johannes Gutenberg invented the movable-type printing press, which started the Printing Revolution. -
One of the earliest discovered instances of print advertising comes from Thebes in Egypt, a papyrus fragment dated around 3000BC -
Chromolithography is a term used for color lithographs characterized by saturated, high-gloss color, usually covering the entire sheet. -
Art Nouveau, also known in Italy as floral style, Liberty style or new art, was an artistic and philosophical movement that developed between the end of the 19th century and the first decade of the 1900s and which influenced the figurative arts -
The Wiener Werkstätte, established in 1903 by the graphic designer and painter Koloman Moser, the architect Josef Hoffmann and the patron Fritz Waerndorfer -
The Bauhaus whose full name was Staatliches Bauhaus, was an art and design school that operated in Germany from 1919 to 1933 -
Art Deco, deco or déco, was a phenomenon of taste that essentially affected the period between 1919 and 1930 in Europe, while in America, in particular in the United States, it lasted until 1940 -
Peretz Rosenbaum, known as Paul Rand, was an American designer. He is best known for redesigning the IBM logo and designing the Westinghouse Electric brand. -
The international typographic style, also called Swiss style, or Swiss school, is a graphic style that developed in Switzerland in the 1950s and whose cardinal points are clarity, readability and objectivity, without any hint of decorativism -
The digital revolution is the transition from analog mechanical and electronic technology to digital electronic technology which began in the industrialized countries of the world during the late 1950s. -
