c 15,000\u201310,0050 BCE Cave paintings at Lascaux CE
\nc 3600 BCE Blau Monument combines images and early writing
\nc 3500 BCE Sumerians settle in Mesopotamia c 3200 BCE Menes, first pharaoh, unites Egypt
\nc 3100 BCE Early Sumerian pictographic scripts on clay tablets
\nc 3100 BCE King Zet\u2019s ivory tablet, earliest Egyptian pictographic writing
\nc 2900 BCE Early cylinder seals
\nc 2750 BCE Formal land-sale contracts written in cuneiform
\nc 2600 BCE Early surviving papyrus manuscripts
\nc 2500 BCE Wedge-shaped cuneiform
\nc 2345 BCE Pyramid texts in tomb of Unas
\nc 1930\u20131880 BCE Law Code of Hammurabi
\nc 1739 BCE Scarab of Ikhnaton and Nefertiti
\nc 1500 BCE Hieratic scripts
\nc 1420 BCE Papyrus of Ani
\nc 1300 BCE Early Book of the Dead papyrus scrolls
\nc 1100 BCE Iron widely used for weapons and tools
\nc 600 BCE Nebuchadnezzar builds the Tower of Babel
\nc 400 BCE Demotic script
\nc 197 BCE Rosetta Stone
\n332\u2013330 BCE Alexander the Great conquers Egypt<\/p>\n\n\n\n
c 2000 BCE Earl2y Creta0n pict0ograph0s,PhaistosBDisk CE
\nc 1500 BCE Ras Shamra script
\nc 1000 BCE Early Greek alphabet
\nc 850 BCE Aramaic alphabet
\n516 BCE Israelites return from Babylonian exile
\n447\u2013432 BCE Parthenon built in Athens
\n429 BCE Sophocles\u2019 tragedy Oedipus Rex
\n323 BCE Alexander the Great dies in Babylon
\n300 BCE Euclid\u2019s geometry
\nc 190 BCE Parchment used for manuscripts
\n44 BCE Julius Caesar assassinated 29 BCE Vergil\u2019s Georgics
\nc 100 CE Pompeiian wall writing
\nc 114 CE Trajan\u2019s Column
\nc 250 CE Greek uncials
\nc 200\u2013500 CE Roman square capitals and rustic capitals
\nc 500 CE Early Arabic alphabet
\nc 1000 CE Naskhi becomes dominant Arabic alphabet
\n1446 CE Hangul, Korean alphabet<\/p>\n\n\n\n
c 1800 BCE Legendary Ts\u2019ang Chieh invents writing
\nc 1500 BCE Oracle bone writing
\n551 BCE Confucius is born
\nc 528 BCE Siddhartha Gautama becomes the supreme Buddha
\nc 221 BCE Shih Huang-ti unites China: the Great Wall underway
\nc 250 BCE Small-seal calligraphy 105 CE Ts\u2019ai Lun invents paper
\nc 165 CE Confucian classics carved in stone
\nc 200 CE Regular-style calligraphy
\nc 300 CE Chops are used as identifying seals;
\nchops used in Han dynasty
\nc 770 CE Early datable Chinese relief printing; printed Buddhist charms
\n868 CE Diamond Sutra
\nc 1000 CE Chinese calligraphy printed with perfection
\nc 1000 CE Gunpowder in use in China
\nc 1040 CE Pi Sheng invents movable type in China
\n1200 CE c 1150 CE Compass is invented<\/p>\n\n\n\n
330 CE Constantine moves Roman capital to Constantinople
\n425 CE Vatican Vergil
\nc 500 CE Uncial lettering flourishes
\n570 CE Birth of Muhammad
\nc 600 CE Insular script
\nc 680 CE Book of Durrow
\nc 698 CE Lindisfarne Gospels
\n751 CE Arabs learn papermaking from Chinese prisoners
\n781 CE Alcuin establishes school at Aachen;
\nCaroline minuscules are developed
\nc 800 CE Book of Kells, Coronation Gospels
\n800 CE Charlemagne crowned emperor
\n1095\u201399 CE First Crusade
\n1163 CE Notre Dame Cathedral begun in Paris
\n1209 CE Cambridge University founded c 1265 CE Douce Apocalypse
\nc 1265 CE Marco Polo travels to China
\n1215 CE King John signs Magna Carta
\nc. 1300 CE Ormesby Psalter
\nc 1320 CE Firearms used in Europe
\nc 1387 CE Chaucer begins The Canterbury Tales
\n1413\u201316 CE Les tres riches heures du duc de Berry
\nc 1450 CE Printing with movable type in Germany
\nc 1478 CE Washington Haggadah<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1276 Paper mill established in Fabriano1, Italy 270
\nc 1300 Relief printing on textiles in Europe
\nc 1306 Giotto completes the Arena Chapel frescoes 1321 Dante completes The Divine Comedy
\n1348 Black Death decimates Florence, Italy
\n1423 Saint Christopher, early dated woodblock print
\nc 1450 Gutenberg perfects typographic printing; the Master
\nof the Playing Cards perfects copperplate engraving c 1455 Gutenberg and Fust complete 42-line Bible
\n1457 Fust and Schoeffer, Psalter in Latin with two-color
\n1468 Gutenberg dies
\nprinted initials
\nc 1460 Block books in use in the Netherlands<\/p>\n\n\n\n
c1460Pfister,1stprintedbookwithillu1stratio4ns 60
\n1462 Mainz, Germany, sacked by Adolf of Nassau
\n1465 Sweynheym and Pannartz, 1st Italian printing press;
\n1st printed music
\n1470 Freiburger, Gering, and Kranz,
\n1st printing press in France
\n1475 Caxton, 1st English-language typographic book
\n1484 Botticelli, Birth of Venus
\n1486 Reuwich illustrates trip to Holy Land
\n1493 Koberger publishes the Nuremburg Chronicle
\n1498 Du\u0308rer, The Apocalypse
\n1514\u201317 de Brocar, Polyglot Bible
\n1528 Albrecht Du\u0308rer dies
\n1534 Luther\u2019s first German-language Bible
\n1538 1st printing press in Mexico<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1469 de Spira, 1st printing press in Ven1460
\n1470 Jenson\u2019s roman typeface
\n1476 Ratdolt, Calendarium has 1st complete title page
\n1492 Columbus sails to America
\n1494 Manutius establishes the Aldine Press in Venice
\n1494 France invades Italy
\n1495 Griffo designs & cuts Bembo type for Manutius
\n1501 Griffo designs & cuts 1st italic type for Manutius\u2019s pocket book
\n1503 Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa
\n1505 Geoffroy Tory returns to France from Italy
\n1509 Henry VIII becomes king of England
\n1512 Michaelangelo completes Sistine Chapel ceiling
\n1517 Luther launches the Reformation
\n1522 Magellan\u2019s expedition circumnavigates the globe
\n1522 Arrighi\u2019s writing manual
\n1525 Tory, 1st Book of Hours
\n1527 French army sacks Rome
\n1529 Tory, Champ Fleury
\nc 1530 Garamond establishes an independent type foundry
\n1555 Plantin establishes his press at Antwerp
\nc 1557 Granjon, Civilit type 1561 Kerver, French version of Poliphili
\n1569\u201372 Plantin, Polygot Bible 1569 Mercator, modern cartography
\n1594 Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
\n1605 Cervantes, Don Quixote; Shakespeare, Macbeth
\n1621 Weekly Newes, 1st English newspaper 1640 Daye, Whole Booke of Psalmes
\n1667 Schipper, Calvin\u2019s Commentary
\n1721 Bach, Brandenburg Concertos<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1692 Louis XIV commissions the Romain du Roi
\n1700 Sewall, The Selling of Joseph, 1st American pamphlet protesting slavery
\n1702 1st book printed with the Romain du Roi
\n1722 Caslon, 1st Caslon Old Style font
\n1726 Swift, Gulliver\u2019s Travels 1737 Fournier le Jeune standardized type sizes; John Pine, Opera Horatii
\n1742 Fournier le Jeune, Mode\u0300les des characte\u0300res de l\u2019imprimerie
\n1757 Baskerville, Vergil
\n1760 George III becomes king of England
\n1764 Fournier le Jeune, Manuel Typographique
\n1769 Watt patents steam engine
\n1770 Boston Massacre
\n1771 Luce, Essai d\u2019une nouvelle typographique
\n1774 Louis XVI becomes king of France
\n1776 American Declaration of Independence
\n1784 Didot, true modern style type
\n1789 Washington becomes 1st U.S. president
\n1789 Blake, Songs of Innocence
\n1789 French Revolution begins, Bastille stormed
\nc 1790 Bodoni, typefaces bearing his name
\n1790 Bewick, General History of Quadrupeds
\n1793 Louis XVI beheaded
\n1799 Napoleon rules France
\n1680 – 1689 Peter the Great becomes czar of Rus
\n1818 Bodoni, Manuale tipograpfico<\/p>\n\n\n\n
c 1765 Cotterell, 12-line pica type
\n1796 Senefelder invents lithography
\n1800 Lord Stanhope, cast-iron press
\n1803 Thorne, 1st fat-face type; 1st production paper machine
\n1804 Napoleon crowned emperor
\n1808 Beethoven, Fifth Symphony
\n1814 Koenig, steam-powered press
\n1815 Figgins, 1st Egyptian type
\n1816 Caslon, 1st sans-serif type
\n1821 Champollion deciphers hieroglyphics
\n1823 Monroe Doctrine
\n1826 Nie\u0301pce, 1st photograph from nature
\n1828 Democratic Party formed
\n1831 Henry, 1st electric motor
\n1833 Figgins, 2-line Pearl, Outline
\n1834 Berthold, Akzidenz Grotesk
\n1834 Braille, writing system for blind
\n1835 Talbot, 1st photographic negative
\n1839 Daguerre announces the daguerreotype process
\n1843 Buford, Boston lithography firm
\nc 1843\u201345 Hill & Adamson, early portrait photography
\n1844 Morse, telegraph 1846 Hoe, rotary lithographic press
\n1847 Pickering, The Elements of Euclid
\n1848 Marx, The Communist Manifesto
\n1850s\u20131860s Woodtype posters dominate the hoardings
\n1851 Melville, Moby Dick
\n1852 Paxton, Crystal Palace
\n1856 Prang opens Boston lithography firm
\n1859 Darwin, The Origin of Species
\n1861 U.S. Civil War begins
\n1862 Nast joins Harper\u2019s Weekly
\n1865 Crane, his 1st children\u2019s book
\n1865 Lincoln assassinated
\n1867\u201369 O\u2019Sullivan geological expedition
\n1870s Woodtype posters begin to decline as lithography becomes dominant
\n1874 Prang, 1st American Christmas card
\nc 1877 Muybridge, sequence photography
\n1879 Greenaway, Under the Window
\n1880 Horgan, experimental halftone screen
\n1880s Dry plates replace wet plates
\n1884 Twain, Huckleberry Finn
\n1885 Ives, halftone screen
\n1886 Mergenthaler, Linotype machine
\n1887 Lanston, Monotype machine
\n1888 Eastman Kodak camera makes photography \u201cevery person\u2019s art form\u201d
\n1893 Ford\u2019s 1st gasoline engine 1901 Queen Victoria dies<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1861 Morris opens art-decorating firm
\n1869 Suez Canal opens
\n1877 Morris makes his 1st public lectures on design
\n1882 Century Guild is formed
\n1883 Mackmurdo, Wren\u2019s City Churches title page
\n1883 Stevenson, Treasure Island
\n1884 Art Worker\u2019s Guild formed
\n1884 Hobby Horse published
\n1886 Statue of Liberty
\n1888 Morris designs Golden type
\n1891 Edison, kinetoscopic camera
\n1893 Morris, Chaucer type
\n1894 Morris & Crane, The Story of the Glittering Plain
\n1894 Nicolas II becomes Russian czar
\n1895 Goudy\u2019s Camelot, his 1st typeface
\n1896 Morris, Kelmscott Chaucer; Pissarro founds Eragny Press; Rogers joins Riverside Press; Hornby starts Ashendene Press; Morris dies
\n1902 Ashbee, Essex House Psalter
\n1903 Doves Press Bible
\n1918 Koch forms workshop community1
\n1940 Goudy, Typologia<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1682 Moronobu, Young Man with Two C1ourtes6ans
\n1740 Masanobu, linear perspective in ukiyo-e prints
\n1765 Harunobu, multicolor ukiyo-e prints
\nLate 1700s Utamaro, portraits of courtesans
\n1830\u201332 Hokusai, Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji
\nc 1856\u201359 Hiroshige, Evening Squall at Great Bridge near Atake
\n1866 Che\u0301ret, La biche au bois poster
\n1874 Tiffany opens glassworks
\n1876 Bell, telephone
\n1879 Edison, electric lamp
\n1881 Barnum & Bailey, circus
\n1883 Grasset, Histoire des quatre fils Aymon
\n1886 Grasset, 1st poster
\n1889 Van Gogh, Starry Night
\n1890 Che\u0301ret, Legion of Honor
\n1891 Toulouse-Lautrec, Moulin Rouge poster
\n1893 Beardsley, Mort D\u2019Arthur; Wright opens architectural office
\n1894 Toorop, Delft salad oil poster; Mucha, Gismonda poster; Rhead returns to America; Bradley, Inland Printer covers
\n1895 Bing, l\u2019Art Nouveau gallery opens
\n1896 Jugend, 1st issue; Steinlen, La Rue poster; Ricketts begins Vale Press
\n1898 Behrens, The Kiss
\n1901 Dudorvich, Bitter Campari poster<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1895 McNair and Macdonalds, Glasgow
\n1897 Vienna Secession formed
\n1898 Ver Sacrum begins publication; Berthold Foundry, Akzidenz Grotesk
\n1898 Curie discovers radium
\n1899 Moser, 5th Vienna Secession poster
\n1900 Behrens, sans-serif running text; Klingspor issues Eckmannschrift
\n1901 Klingspor issues Behrensschrift
\n1902 Moser, 13th Vienna Secession poster; Wright, 1st prairie-style house
\n1904 Lauweriks teaches geometric grid composition in Germany
\n1903 Hoffmann & Moser, Vienna Workshops are established
\n1907 Deutscher Werkbund formed; Loeffler designs Fledermaus
\n1910 Behrens, AEG lamp poster fine a
\n1896 Wright designs The House Beautiful
\n1909 Behrens and Bernhard, AEG turbine hall<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1897 Mallarm\u00e9, Un coup de d\u00e9s
\n1901 Queen Victoria dies
\n1903 The Wright brothers, 1st airplane flight
\n1905 Einstein, theory of relativity
\n1905 The Bridge expressionist group
\nc 1909?1912 Analytical cubism
\n1906?1907 Picasso, influenced by C\u00e9zanne and African art
\n1908 Model T Ford
\n1909 Marinetti, Manifesto of Futurism; Braque, Pitcher and Violin
\n1909 NAACP formed
\nc 1911 Kandinsky, nonobjective paintings
\n1911 The Blue Rider expressionist group
\n1910 Kandinsky, Concerning the Spiritual in Art
\nc 1913?1914 Synthetic cubism
\n1913 New York Armory Show
\n1914 de Chirico, Departure of the Poet
\n1914 Kafka, The Trial
\n1915 Marinetti, \u201cMountains + Valleys + Streets x Joffre\u201d
\n1916 Dada founded; Arp, \u201cchance\u201d in art
\n1917 Ball, Dada sound poems; Coburn, Vortographs
\n1918 Apollinaire, Calligrammes
\n1918 Hausmann & H\u00f6ch, photomontages
\n1918 Czar Nicolas II executed
\n1919 Schwitters, Merz exhibition; Heartfield, Grosz & others found Berlin Dada; L\u00e9ger, La Fin du Monde\u2026
\n1922 USSR formed
\n1923 Hitler, Mein Kampf
\n1924 Breton, Manifesto of Surrealism
\n1924 Mussolini and Fascists consolidate power in Italy
\n1927 Depero, Dinamo Azari
\n1929 Man Ray, \u201cSleeping Woman\u201d
\n1934 Heartfield, \u201cYuletide\u201d poster
\n1930 Gandhi leads protest against salt tax
\n1933 Nazis raid Heartfield\u2019s apartment<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1894 Beggarstaffs agency founded
\n1890 1905 Bernhard, Priester matches poster
\n1908 Hohlwein, PKZ poster
\n1911 Erdt, Opel poster
\n1914 World War I begins
\n1915 Leete, Kitchener \u201cwants you\u201d poster
\n1917 Klinger, 8th war loan campaign poster; Flagg \u201cUncle Sam\u201d
\nposter
\n1918 Kauffer, Daily Herald poster
\n1918 World War I ends
\n1920 U.S. women gain the vote
\n1925 Cassandre, L\u2019Intransigeant poster
\n1925 Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
\n1923 Binder, Vienna Music and Theater posters
\n1927 Cassandre, Etoile du Nord poster
\n1927 Lindbergh, first solo flight across the Atlantic; Stalin rules Russia
\n1929 Stock market crash
\n1931 Empire State Building
\n1932 Cassandre, Dubonnet poster
\nc 1936-1943 Hohlwein, designs for Nazis
\n1936 Roosevelt reelected Late
\n1930s Binder, Carlu, Cassandre & Kauffer to the U.S.
\n1940s Games, World War II posters<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1910 Mondrian learns of cubism
\n1912 Wright, Coonley house with geometric stained glass windows
\nc 1913 Malevich, 1st suprematist paintings
\n1916 Van der Leck, Batavier Line poster
\n1917 De Stijl movement & journal begins
\n1917 Russian Revolution begins
\n1918 Wendingen magazine founded
\n1918 Van Doesburg, Composition XI
\n1919 Lissitzky, \u201cBeat the Whites with the Red Wedge\u201d poster
\n1920s Vladimir Lebedev becomes father of the 20th-century Russian picture book
\n1922 Berlewi, mechano-faktura theory
\n1923 Mayakovsky & Lissitzky, For the Voice
\n1924 Lissitzky, The Isms of Art
\n1924 Rodchenko, serial covers, Mess Mend
\n1924 Rietveld, Schroeder house
\n1928 Warner Brothers, 1st sound motion picture
\n1929 Lissitzky, Russische Ausstellung poster
\n1930 Gustav Klutis extols Soviet accomplishments in photomontage posters
\n1931 Van Doesburg dies; De Stijl journal ends
\n1932 Low point of Depression; Roosevelt elected president
\n1934 Mao Tse-tung leads Long March
\n1936 Roosevelt re-elected 1939 Sutnar emigrates to U.S.
\n1941 Lissitzky dies 1944 Mondrian dies<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1916 Johnston, Railway Type
\n1919 Gropius founds Weimar Bauhaus & publishes manifesto
\n1920 Klee joins Bauhaus
\n1922 Kandinsky joins Bauhaus
\n1923 Moholy-Nagy replaces Itten at Bauhaus; Bauhaus
\nexhibition, Tschichold attends; Werkman, 1st Next Call
\n1925 Bauhaus moves to Dessau; Bayer, universal alphabet; Tschichold, Elementare typographie
\n1927 Renner, Futura
\n1928 Gropius, Moholy-Nagy & Bayer leave Bauhaus; Tschichold, Die Neue Typographie; Zwart, NKF catalogue; Koch, Kabel
\n1930 Mies van der Rohe moves Bauhaus to Berlin
\n1931 Gill, Essay on Typography 1932 Morison, Times New Roman
\n1933 Nazis close Bauhaus, arrest Tschichold
\n1933 Beck, London Underground map
\n1933 Hitler becomes German chancellor
\n1935 Matter, Pontresina poster
\n1947 Marshall Plan
\n1947 Tschichold joins Penguin books
\n1949 Mao Tse-tung\u2019s communist forces seize power in China
\n1956 Sandberg, Experimenta typographica<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1924 Ert\u00e9, 1st Harper\u2019s Bazaar covers
\n1920 1928 Agha becomes art director of Vogue
\n1934 Brodovitch art directs Harper\u2019s Bazaar
\n1935 WPA hires artists for design projects 1935 Rural Electric Administration
\n1937 Beall, REA posters
\n1936 Jacobson, design director for CCA
\n1937 Picasso, Guernica Late 1930s Bauhaus masters Albers, Bayer, Breuer, Gropius, Mies van der Rohe & Moholy-Nagy emigrate to U.S. 1939 Binder, New York World\u2019s Fair poster; Moholy-Nagy, School of Design
\n1939 Germany invades Poland; World War II begins
\n1939 New York World\u2019s Fair
\n1940 Kauffer, Greek resistance poster
\n1940 Churchill, \u201cBlood, toil, tears, and sweat\u201d speech
\n1941 Carlu, \u201cAmerica\u2019s answer! Production\u201d poster
\n1943 Alexander Liberman becomes art director of Vogue
\n1943 Mass production of penicillin
\n1944 Sutnar, Catalog Design
\n1945 World War II ends
\n1945 United Nations formed
\n1945 CCA Allied Nations advertisements
\n1946 Nuremberg war trials
\n1948 Matter, Knoll chair ads
\n1950 CCA \u201cGreat Ideas\u201d ads begin<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1930s Bill, Stankowski & others, constructivist graphic design
\n1942 Bill, Moderne Schweizer Architektur
\n1944 Herdeg, Graphis 1st issue
\n1947 Ruder & Hofmann join Basel School of Design faculty
\n1948 Huber, \u201cGran premio dell\u2019 Autodrome\u201d poster
\n1950 Ulm School of Design planned; Odermatt opens studio; Zapf designs Palatino
\n1950 Korean War begins 1950 First Xerox machine produced
\n1952 de Harak opens New York studio
\n1952 Polio vaccine developed 1953 Stankowski, Standard Elektrik Lorenz AG logo 1954 Frutiger, Univers fonts 1954 Brown vs Board of Education ends school segregation in the U.S. 1954 Henri Matisse dies 1955 Casey joins MIT 1955 Albert Einstein dies 1956 DNA molecule first photographed 1957 Miedinger, Haas Grotesque (later named Helvetica by Stempel foundry)
\n1958 European Economic Community becomes effective
\n1959 Neue Grafik Design begins publication; Hofmann, Giselle poster
\n1960 Mu\u0308ller-Brockmann, der Film poster 1967 Ruder, Typography: A Manual of Design 1968 Ulm School of Design closes; Stankowski, Berlin design
\nprogram; Zapf, Manuale Typographicum 1970s International Typographic Style becomes dominant
\nthroughout the world 1980 Mu\u0308ller-Brockmann, concert poster series
\n1991 Jacqueline S. Casey dies 1996 Mu\u0308ller-Brockmann<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1939 Thompson, 1st Westvaco Inspirati1ons
\n1940 Print magazine, 1st issue
\n1940s Rand, Directions covers
\n1941 Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
\n1945 Lustig, New Directions book covers
\n1945 United Nations founded
\n1947 Rand, Thoughts on Design
\n1949 Doyle Dane Bernbach founded
\n1950 Alvid Eisenman creates graphic design program at Yale University
\n1950s Brodovitch\u2019s editorial design classes inspire a generation
\n1952 Eisenhower elected president
\n1952 Korean War ends
\n1953 Wolf art directs Esquire
\n1954 Senate censures McCarthy
\n1955 Bass, Man with the Golden Arm graphics
\n1957 Brownjohn, Chermayeff & Geismar formed
\n1958 Storch redesigns McCall\u2019s
\n1959 Brodovitch retires; Wolf art directs Bazaar; Communication Arts, 1st issue
\n1960s Lois, Esquire \u201cstatement\u201d covers
\n1968\u201371 Lubalin, Avant Garde magazine
\n1970 International Typeface Corporation begins; Lubalin & Carnase, Avant Garde typeface
\n1995 Bradbury Thompson dies
\n1996 Paul Rand dies<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1940 Golden becomes art director of CBS
\n1945 Olden joins CBS
\n1946 Dorfsman joins CBS
\n1947 Pintori joins Olivetti
\n1948 Gandhi assassinated
\n1950 Korean War begins
\n1951 Golden, CBS symbol
\n1951 Color television introduced
\n1951 UNIVAC I, 1st mass produced computer
\n1954 Matter, New Haven railroad program New York and Hartford
\n1955 Disneyland opens
\n1956 Rand, IBM logo; Pintori, Olivetti Electrosumma poster
\n1957 Soviet satellite Sputnik launches the space age
\n1959 Golden dies 1959 Castro ousts Batista from Cuba
\n1960 Chermayeff & Geismar, Chase Manhattan identity; Beall, International Paper logo
\n1962 Aicher & staff, Lufthansa identity system
\n1964 Mobil identity program
\n1968 Wyman, Mexico City Olympics
\n1972 Massey, Labor Department identity; Aicher & staff, Munich Olympics
\n1977 U. S. National Parks Unigrid system
\n1984 Los Angeles Olympics
\n1985 Manhattan Design, MTV logo<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1953 Trepkowski, \u201cNie!\u201d poster
\n1954 Testa, Pirelli graphics; Push Pin Studios forms
\n1956 Trepkowski dies; Tomaszewski leads Polish movement, evolves toward a colorful collage approach
\n1958 Supreme Court orders school desegregation
\n1959 Twen magazine launched
\n1960 Kennedy elected president
\n1962 Cuban missile crisis
\n1962 Andy Warhol exhibits his Campbell\u2019s Soup Cans
\n1962 Berg joins CBS Records
\n1963 Kennedy assassinated
\n1964 Massin designs The Bald Soprano
\n1965 U.S. troops sent to Vietnam
\n1966 Kieser, \u201cAlabama Blues\u201d poster
\n1967 Wilson & Moscoso, psychedelic posters; Glaser, Dylan poster
\n1968 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated
\n1969 Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin land on the Moon
\n1970 Max, Love graphics 1970s Richards, Pirtle & others, Texas becomes a major design center
\n1974 Nixon resigns as president
\n1976 Rambow, 1st S. Fischer-Verlag poster
\n1980 Janiszewski, Solidarity logo; Rambow, Die Hamletmachine poster
\n1988 Rambow, South African Roulette poster
\n1996 Glaser, \u201cArt Is . . . Whatever\u201d poster<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1962 Venturi, Grand\u2019s Restaurant super
\n1960 1966 Solomon, Sea Ranch environmental graphics
\n1968 Weingart joins Basel School of Design faculty
\n1969 Compuserve, 1st commercial online service graphics
\n1970s Postmodernism designates design breaking with modernism
\n1970 Kent State shootings
\n1970 Computer floppy disk is introduced
\n1973 U.S. pulls most troops out of Vietnam
\n1975 Microsoft founded
\n1981 AIDS epidemic recognized
\n1981 Memphis exhibition in Milan
\n1981 MTV launched 1986 U.S. space shuttle Challenger explodes during launch
\n1995 Dan Friedman dies<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1959 Rodrigues \u201cVisit Portugal\u201d poster
\n1950 1962 Fletcher, Forbes & Gill founded
\n1963 Tanaka design studio opens; Total Design opens in Amsterdam 1964 Kamekura, Tokyo Olympics posters
\n1965 Oxenaar, 1st new Dutch currency
\n1969 Spencer, Pioneers of Modern Typography
\n1970 Anto\u0301nio Salazar dies
\n1970 Igarashi, Sato open studios
\nc 1975 Igarashi, isometric alphabets
\n1976 Oxenaar, PTT Aesthetic Advisor
\n1977 Studio Dumbar opens; Wild Plakken forms
\n1978 1st Hard Werken magazine
\n1979 Iranian revolution
\n1981 Tanaka, \u201cNihon Buyo\u201d poster
\n1986 Oxenaar, Dutch 250-guilder note
\n1987 Altmann, Ellis & Greenhalgh cofound Why Not Associates
\n1989 PTT privatized; visual identity by Studio Dumbar
\n1989 Estrada opens own graphic design studio
\n1989 Charles S. Anderson Design Co. formed
\n1989 Berlin Wall comes down
\n1990 Fletcher, Victoria and Albert logo
\n1990 Hubble Telescope launched into space
\n1991 Soviet Union collapses
\n1991 van Toorn becomes director of the Jan van Eyck Academy
\n1994 Hard Werken becomes Ini\u0301zio
\n1994 Momayez, cover for Blue, A Collection of Forugh Milani\u2019s Poetry
\n1995 Oklahoma City bombing
\n1995 Hans Dieter Reichert cofounds Bradbourne Publishing & begins baseline magazine
\n1996 HIV infects 27.9 million people
\n1997 Stolk, Briners & van den Dungen form Experimental Jetset
\n2002 Rodiguez, \u201cGoya Posada\u201d
\n2003 First Iranian Typography Exhibition
\n2007 Gil, Pioneers of Spanish Graphic Design<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1970 1971 Katherine and Michael McCoy Michigan\u2019s Cranbook Academy of Art design department
\n1981 IBM introduces the personal computer (PC)
\n1984 Apple\u2019s first generation Macintosh computer
\n1984 Susan Kare, first screen fonts for the Macintosh computer
\n1984 VanderLans, E\u0301migre\u0301 magazine
\n1985 Aldus introduced PageMaker software for the Macintosh computer
\n1985 Apple laser printer
\n1985 The first version of Microsoft Windows is released
\n1987 Stone, Stone type family; Greiman, bitmapped Design Quarterly
\n1989 Abbott Miller and Ellen Lupton form Design\/Writing\/Research
\n1990 Macintosh II color computer; Adobe, multiple master typefaces; Bernes-Lee, HTML programming language
\n1991 Kuhr, color-xeroxed prototype for Wired magazine
\n1992 Carson, Ray Gun magazine
\n1992 Adobe released its first multiple-master typefaces
\n1994 33 percent of US households have computers
\n1994 Wired publishes its first issue
\n1995 Kit Hinrichs and Corporate Design Foundation, @issue: The Journal of Business and Design
\n1996 Licko, Mrs Eaves typeface
\n1996 Kyle Cooper founds Imaginary Forces
\n1999 The number of Internet users worldwide reaches 150 million worldwide
\n2001 September 11th terrorist attacks on the United States
\n2001 Apple releases iPod MP3 music player
\n2003 The US space shuttle Columbia explodes, killing 7 astronauts
\n2003 Chahine, Koufiya, first dual-script font family (Latin and Arabic)
\n2004 The Summer Olympics are held in Athens 2004 Matthew Carter, the Yale typeface
\n2005 More than 800 million internet users globally, 200 million in the US
\n2007 Ingmar Bergman dies
\n2007 Apple introduces the iPhone
\n2007 Erik Spiekermann appointed to board of directors at Microsoft
\n2008 Fidel Castro resigns from the Cuban Presidency
\n2008 The Summer Olympics are held in Beijing
\n2008 The world stock exchanges crash, triggering a global recession
\n2009 Barak Obama inaugurated president of the United States
\n2010 Apple introduces the iPad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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