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Cave Designs
40,000 BC - 30,000 BC The first cave paintings were made from simple dyes. These paintings were basic and mostly about hunters and prey. The early people who made this were most likely from a time period called the Aurignacian time period. This was before the Neolothic Revolution so people are still grasping basic aspects of life. -
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Greek Pottery
525 BC The Ancient Greeks invent "red figure pottery" which they drew designs on. These esigns ranged from intricate paintings of people, to simple geometric lines. Many of these vases and gourds are still intact and shown at museums. -
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Design in Europe
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Middle Ages
400-1400s Much of the art in this time was to glorify gods or kings. It was made out of calfskin, only later was it made out of paper. Monks would decorate their holy books with very intricate designs of gold and royal colors. Portraits of the kings and lords were made as well. Famous battles were portayed in paintings, but not on a great scale, usually only around 20 people at maximum would be shown fighting at once. -
Jan 1, 1100
Middle Ages Paper Introduced
Paper was imported to Europe from the east and was very expensive. Until then, people had used vellum (calfskin) to write and paint on. It became common and cheaper around the 1400s due to paper mills. -
Jan 1, 1450
Block Books
Printing in Europe in the mid 1400s consited of pressing blocks carved with entire pages covered with ink onto paper. Many of these books contained pictures as well as just text. -
Hollander Beater
The Hollander Beater was a Duth invention that made paper pulp using a windmill. The pulp was made from plant fibers. It quickly replaced the common stamp mills since it could produce so much more pulp in the amount of time. -
Alphonze Mucha
Alphonse Mucha was a Czech painter who made a theatre poster for the famous actress at that time, Sarah Bernhardt. He was well known for the mass amount of hair he would give to the person in the poster. -
First Computer
John Atansoff and Clifford Berry invent the first all-electric digital computer at Iowa State University. Even though John Maucly and Presper Eckert are usually the ones credited for making the first elctronic digital computer, when they tried to patent their design,the patent was voided because they infringed from Atansoff and Berry -
Armin Hoffman
Armin Hoffman was a Swiss graphic designer who opened a design studio in Basel. He later began teaching at the Basel School of Design and developed the "Swiss Style". Armin was very famous for his posters and some of them are still on display today. -
Sketchpad Invented
Ivan Sutherland creates the very first sketchpad. At the time this was defined as a device that someone could interactively draw and create an image onto a screen. This was one of the first major advancements in graphic design.
