History of Design

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  • 15,000 BCE

    Lascaux Caves

    Contains very prehistoric displays of art. The caves were discovered on September 12, 1940.
  • 105

    Ts’ai Lun

    Ts’ai Lun
    Was an inventor that invented the paper that we use to draw on today.
  • 1450

    Johannes Gutenberg

    Johannes Gutenberg
    He was an inventor the created the printing press.
  • Victorian

    Victorian
    Influenced the making of furniture and fabrics and is sometimes used when designing interior of homes.
  • Chromolithography

    Chromolithography
    Artworks that are made on stone tablets using water and oils.
  • Arts & Crafts

    Arts & Crafts
    Making unique objects of art with creativity.
  • Art Nouveau

    Art Nouveau
    Inspired by arts & crafts and influenced the creation of stained glass.
  • Futurism

    Futurism
    Italian movement to capture energy of Art, inspired by Filipino M. Involves no patterns.
  • Vienna Workshop

    Artists' creating everyday objects with an emphasis on quality design.
  • Early Modern Art

    Early Modern Art
    A tendency away from the narrative, which was characteristic for the traditional arts, toward abstraction is characteristic of much modern art.
  • Heroic Realism

    Heroic Realism
    People look realistic in the art, bright color, used to alter attitudes (motivate).
  • Bauhaus

    Inspired architecture, arts & crafts and is abstract.
  • Constructivism

    a style or movement that became popular in the 1920s in which assorted mechanical objects are combined into abstract mobile structural forms.
  • Art Deco

    Art Deco
    Originated in France, represented modernism turned into fashion, sharp edges, Roaring 20s, geometric ornaments like parallel straight lines, used with building or skyscrapers.
  • Swiss

    Swiss
    Asymmetrical layouts, mathematical grid, impacted architecture, known as international style.
  • Jackson Pollock

    Jackson Pollock
    1912-1956, born in Wyoming, moved to California when he was young, enrolled in Manual Art High School in Los Angeles, helped form new art movement, absence of a brush, most expensive painting sold for $140,000,000, died in a car accident at 44 yrs old.
  • Late Modern

    Had affect on agriculture, inspired by European avant-garde immigrants.
  • Paul Rand

    Paul Rand
    1914-1996, born in Brooklyn, New York, was an art director, made logos for famous companies nowadays.
  • Pop Art

    Pop Art
    Emerged in the 1950s in America and Britain, Richard Hamilton (father of pop art)
  • Leroy Winbush

    Leroy Winbush
    Born in Tennessee in 1915, designs included signs, worked with album cover of music artists, worked with astronaut exhibits
  • Psychedelic

    Psychedelic
    Overwhelmed to the human eye, freedom, rich in detail, shows that you are free in art, lack of structure.
  • Post Modern

    Skepticism, subjectivism, pop art was big in this, civil rights movement.
  • Grunge

    Grunge
    Looks damaged or unfinished, started by a group called Nirvana, well known as posters,way of making a picture look dirty or torn.
  • Flat

    Flat
    Bright colors, contrast, seen in websites and ads, only 3 people specialized in flat design.
  • Cinemagraph

    Commonly known as a GIF, seems like a video, used in advertising, adds satisfaction to the advertisement.