40 important dates in the history of graphic design

Today we celebrate one of the most important dates: The international day of graphic design. What better way to celebrate than by taking a look at the steps we've taken throughout the history of graphic design? From the origins of this discipline until today it has rained a lot and it has been a path full of so many geniuses as geniuses that in the form of legacy leave us a wealth of knowledge and endless tools and that allow us to develop great works at a technical, artistic and conceptual level with greater precision and ease. Design has grown and made the world grow at an abysmal speed, enriching the imagery and perception of millions of people.

Here is a selection of forty dates (which have subsequently become milestones) y that have marked a before and after in the way of understanding and practicing design. Have a good day creative community

• 10.000 BC First communicative representations in cave paintings. Paleolithic pictograms.

• 3.200 - 3.000 BC Development of hieroglyphs in Egypt as ideographic representations.

• 3.000 BC The first writings are attributed to the Sumerian people, in Mesopotamia. They used a reed with a point at one end to draw symbols on wet clay tablets.

• 114 BC Trajan's Column, a commemorative monument ordered by Emperor Trajan, was a public manifestation of a government.

• 79 BC In Pompeii "posters" were made announcing circus fights, renting a tavern, or detailing the services of prostitutes. They are the first signs of publicity.

• 105 d. C. In China, paper is invented.

• End of the XNUMXth century Pekin the Kaiyuan Zabac is printed in woodcut.

• 800 d. C. Book of Kells, an illustrated manuscript by Celtic monks, is considered by many to be one of the first works of conscious design and of great quality.

• 1.300 d. C. In Turkestan printers the first movable wooden characters are used.

• 1.409 d. C. First known book, printed in Korea with metal characters.

• 1438-1440 d. C. Gutenberg makes the first impressions with movable characters in Strasbourg. Invention of the printing press.

• 1482 d. C. The first poster is printed. «The great pardon of our lady of Reims».

• 1.485 d. C. During the wars in Italy the first current "flyers" appeared.

• 1.536-1.539 d. C. The printing press arrives in America (Mexico).

• 1.796 AD Aloys Senefelder develops lithography as a printing system.

• 1.822 d. C. Joseph N. Niepce obtains the first permanent photograph.

• 1.829 d. C. Stereotypes in advertising designs are more present as publication editions also increase.

• 1.837 d. C. Godefroy Engelmann develops the chromalithography from the German color lithographic headers.

• 1.850 d. C. Photographs are beginning to be used to advertise commercial products.

• End of S. XIX In the United Kingdom the Arts and Crafts movement begins

• 1880 d. C. Screen gravure is used in magazines, illustrated, which helps to improve print quality.

• 1880-1900 d. C. Second generation of Arts and Crafts.

• At the end of the First World War Dadaism arises as an artistic movement.

• 1.904 d. C. The first publicity film is made for Moet-et Chanplon, made by the Lumière brothers.

• 1.907 d. C. A new aesthetic is imposed, cubism, which abstracts the figures and shapes to geometric planes.

• 1.909 d. C. Filippo Marinetti founds Futurism, considered a "typographic revolution."

• S. XX d. C. Radio, cinema and television acquire a very important role for advertising.

• 1.922 d. C. In the United States, radio becomes the main advertising platform.

• 1.925 d. C. Herbert Bayer runs the typography and advertising workshop, a watershed for design as a profession.

• 1.928 d. C. Principles of modern typography, New Typography, by Jan Tsehichold.

• 1.936 d. C. The first 35mm SLR appears.

• 1,938 d. C. Diohte applies motivation studies to advertising.

• 1.950 d. C. Current pictograms are developed in the United States for national parks.

• 1.956 d. C. Design is proliferating in the Ulm school as a profession with scientific methodology.

• 1.964 d. C. "The ad must be a visual scandal": Raymond Savignac uses this philosophy of giving strength to the image in a publicity work for ASPRO.

• 1.985 d. C. With the introduction of software for design, desktop publishing begins, computers become extremely important for design.