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Broadsides - Lithography Print
Invented by Alois Senefelder, this was the first execution of the copying and printing of scripts, images, and other types of design. This was the first breakthrough of mass advertisement through graphic art. -
Broadsides - Wooden Print
Advertising is advancing and clients needed large print to be seen from afar. Darius Wells invented large type for broadsides on wood. Mass production was made through a high end wood drill. Well's published the first wood type catalog. -
Broadsides - Cheret's Breakthrough
A Lithographer, Jules Cheret, prints the first colored poster in France. He used a minimum of three stones with lithography print style to create colored posters for advertisement. -
The Object Poster Movement
Also known as the Sachplakat Movement, the start of the typography evolution begins. The inventor of this movement, Lucian Bernhard, enters into a poster competition sponsored by Germany's leading advertising agencies. He creates an advertisement poster for Priester Matches Company. -
Advertisement Gets Introduced to War - Early Propaganda
Uncle Sam, created by James Montgomery Flagg, becomes America's first propaganda poster advertisement in support of the American Prepardness Effort and World War I. -
Digital Revolution - The Turing Machine
A general purpose computer invented by Alan Turing, a mathematician, to calculate algorithms and computation. -
Another War; Another Prop Becomes Famous
Rosie the Riveter was introduced in the 1940s because of the decrease in the workforce. The increase in the enlisting of the Armed Services, influenced more women to keep America up and functioning, taking over jobs. -
Computer Graphics
William Fetter was a graphic designer for Boeing Aircraft Company. He designed cockpits by placing plotted points on a mathematical field. -
Sketchpad
Ivan Sutherland submitted the thesis for the first software enabled GUI to allow the user to draw on a screen. -
First Course in Graphic Design History
Louis Danziger teaches the first course in Graphic Design History at CalArts. -
Adobe Photoshop Changes Design As We Known It
Thomas Knoll created and released Adobe Photoshop 1.0, exclusively on Mac. This changed the design world forever because this program includes photo manipulation and creation.
