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Historians trace the origins of graphic design to early cave paintings from about 38,000 BCE. These early forms of cave paintings were how people communicated from one generation to another.
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The Sumerians are credited for the invention of writing c. 3300 to 3000 BC. These early forms of writing were pictographs, symbols that represented objects.
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As early as the 6th century CE, China used woodblock, or relief, printing to stamp designs on silk clothes and eventually on paper. In 1040, Bi Sheng invented the world’s first technique for printing with movable type. A man named Johannes Gutenburg brought a moveable version to Europe in 1439
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The industrial revolution, a period from 1760 to 1840, introduces new technologies for increasing the efficiency and production of manufacturing processes such as lithography which helped them vastly
