BASIC GRAPHIC

TASK 1

a ) HISTORY OF GRAPHIC DESIGN

Graphic from Greek are the production of visual statements on some surface , such as a wall , canvas , pottery , computer screen , paper , stone or landscape . It includes everything that relates to creation of signs , charts , logo , graphs , drawing , line art , symbols , geometric and so on . Graphic design is the art of combining text , pictures and ideas .


15, 000 - 10, 000 BC  

The first known visual communication , with pictographs , and symbol in the Lascaux caves in southern France .


3600 BC
 

The Blau Monument the oldest artifact known to combine words and pictures


150 AD

Chinese goverment official Ts'ai Lun credited with inventing paper


1045 AD

Pi Sheng invents movable types , allowing for characters to be individually placed for printing


1276

Printings arrives in Europe with a paper mill in Fabriano Italy


1450

Johann Gensfleisch zum Gutenberg credited with perfecting the system for printing type in books


1460

Albrecht Pfister the first to add illustrations to a printed book


1470

Nicolas Jenson considered one of history greatest typeface designers , sets new standards for Roman type


1530

 

Claude Garamond opens first type foundry , developing and selling fonts to printers


1722
 

First Caslon Old Style font developed , later used for the printing of the Declaration of Independence


1760

 

Industrial Revolutions begins , setting the stage of advances in graphic design production


1796

  

Author Aloys Senefelder develops lithography