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One of the greates artists and printmakers of the Northern Renaissance, Albrecht Durer's career begins to flourish and lasts 20 years.
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Michelangelo completes the famous statue "David" in Florence, Italy.
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Considered one of the greatest paintings of the Renaissance, Leonardo DiVinci gives the world the Mona Lisa.
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Lasting from 1520-1600 the Mannerism period was a style of art depicting the human form in exaggeration and unrealistic settings. It connected High Renaissance and the Baroque eras.
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Claude Garamond starts up the first type foundry where he manufactures and sells fonts.
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The first European school of drawing is founded; the Accademia dell'Arte del Disegno (Academy of Art in Florence) promoting Academic Art.
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Lasting from 1600-1700 the Baroque period is famous for its grandeur, boldness, and colorfulness.
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Lasting only 70 years, the Rococo period was a whimsical and light style of art that illuminated the lifestyles of the wealthy French.
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The discovery of a formula using feldspathic rock is developed by Ehrenfried von Tschirnhaus and Johann Friedrich Bottger in Meissen, Germany and they create porcelain ceramics
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The font that was used to print the Declaration of Independence is created.
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Neoclassicism lasted from 1750-1800. It began in revolt to the Rococo Era and French frivolity. It went back to the values of classic Greek and Roman times.
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The Industrial Revolution was the book of machanics, and had a great impact on art and design.
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The Royal Academy of Arts in London was founded. Originally it was purposed as a school of fine arts.
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The Louvre Museum opened to the world. It houses some of the most famous art pieces in the world including the Mona Lisa and Venus de Milo. The Louvre is Frances national art museum as well as the most popular art museum in the world.
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Author Aloys Senefelder develops a process of printing from a flat surface that has been treated to repel ink except in the areas that are to be printed.
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The first printing press made from all cast-iron parts is invented by Lord Stanhope. This new press requires one tenth the manual labor and doubles the possible paper size.
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The era of Romanticism lasted 50 years and was inspired by the heroic ideals of the French Revolution.
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Nicholas Louis Robert invents machine made paper that is made from linen and cotton rags.
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Friedrich Overbeck and Franz Pforr form the Nazarenes movement in order to bring honesty and spiriuality back in Christian art.
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Painter John Rand invents the collapsible tine paint tube giving new freedoms to artists everywhere and boosting plein air painting.
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The progressive movement of Realism emerges in order to depict everyday social truths.
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The process of using light to create a pattern or image in order to print, was invented by Firmin Gillot.
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William Morris was a leading member of the Arts and Crafts Movement. He was also an artist, designer, printer, typographer, bookbinder, craftsmen, poet, and writer.
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The era of French Impressionism begins with the works of famed artists such as Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, and Sisley. It was a time where they focused on the light outside.
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The development of the halftone screen gives way for the first photo to be printed with a wide array of tones.
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This period was led by the greats such as Toulouse-Lautrec, and Van Gough.
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These two movements saught out to break away from the traditions mandated by the official academies and to unite all the fine arts, they stirred up a lot of controversy.
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Picasso and Braque begin the revolution of Cubism where they overturn conventional ideas of perspective and form.
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The German School of Bauhaus is founded. This was a huge development in design. They intergrated art, technology, and craftsmanship and generated a new design philosophy.
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This movement was inspired by Cubism, Dada, Freud and Communist philosophy and led by greats like Salvador Dali in order to fuse the conscious with the uncounscious.
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The first issue of a Magazine is printed.
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Greats like Andy Warhol pioneered pop art; A movement where they made ani-art. Warhol is famous for saying that he did not have a studio but an art warehouse. They focused on mass production and they focused on pointing out the dependence society had on things such as consumerism.
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Max Miedinger designs Helvetica. A revolutionary Sans Serif font that is still celebrated and used today. It is seen in everything from public signs to logo design.
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Douglas Engelbart develops the first computer mouse, paving way for the future tool of graphic designers everywhere.
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Apple releases its first Macintosh computer that has bitmap graphics.
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With the development of Aldus PageMaker software and Apple's LaserWriter desktop printer using a postscript language, desktop publishing begins
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Photoshop 1.0 is released by Adobe. This program is a standard for editing photos and is widely used by graphic designers and photographers everywhere.
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Arguably the greatest invention in history, Tim Berners-Lee develops the World Wide Web, HTML, and the concept for web addresses
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The begining of social media came about bringing in all new ways to market and connect to other people with similar interesrt.
