final timeline

By Roger40
  • 1750

    Industrial revolution (Men work replaced by machines, new technologies and change in lifestyle) lasted from 18th century to 19th century.
  • 1796

    William Pickering english publisher (importance in the separation of graphic design from printing production. -Poor quality of design and art reform. -Michael Thonet was born.
  • 1800

    New techniques, Gutta-percha, papier mache and cast iron use were increased.
  • 1808

    Henry Cole (Creator of the Journal of design)
  • 1819

    Michael Thonet first wood working shop
  • 1828

    First railroad
  • 1830

    Michael Thonet discovers wood can be bent, and creates his most iconic chair Arts and crafts from 1830-1900
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    Arts and Crafts movement

  • 1833

    Children work conditions began to improve.
  • 1836

    Parliamentary Committee (The moral state of the nation. Morality and the ethical condition of a nation are reflected on its arts.)
  • 1837

    Royal College of art began
    Government schools of design were founded
  • 1840

    End of industrial revolution
  • 1841

    thonet patents the first method for curving solid beech
  • 1845

    henry Cole created a Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce
  • 1847

    Henry cole founded “Summerlyns Art Manufactures”
  • 1849

    Henry Cole did the journal of design and manufacture (first print ever about design in 1849)
  • 1850

    Christopher Dresser- From the late 1850's he designed functional, yet beautiful objects across a whole range of domestic items, including wallpaper, ceramics, metalwork, textiles, carpets, glass and furniture. Silla no 4 de Michael Thonet Arts & Crafts movement started as a result of a reaction from the industrial revolution in England. William morris wanted to create objects that were inspired by nature John Ruskin inspired the movement and wanted to unify art and labor.
  • 1851

    Great Exhibition
  • 1852

    Henry Cole created the Victoria and Albert Museum, National Museum of Art and Design.
  • 1853

    Michael thonet founded Thonet brothers.
  • 1857

    South kensington Museum was opened
  • 1859

    Silla no. 14 de Michael Thonet
  • 1860

    Aesthetic Movement, William Morris and Dante Gabriel Rossetti explored new ways of living against the standards of the age.
  • 1861

    William Morris created the Morris, Marshall & Faulkner (decorative arts firm)
  • 1862

    Dresser wrote “The art of decorative design”
  • 1863

    Adamo Boari (Italian Civil Engeneer, Designed: “El palacio de Bellas Artes” and “El palacio Postal”) was born. Died in 1928
  • 1864

    Toulouse-Lautrec is born. He was a famous painter and poster artist influenced by japanese style and Edgar Degas (impressionist). ● At the Moulin Rouge ● The Streetwalker
  • 1870

    Josef Hoffmann was born in December 15th in Prinitz Czech Republic. Hoffmann founded the Wiener Werkstä tte. The collaboration of artists, designer architects and artisans enabled the realisation of the ‘total artwork’. Hoffmann’s designs were based on simple and clear proportions and employed rich, high-quality materials.
  • 1871

    The arts and crafts movement was created by Ruskin and Morris because of the industrial revolution
  • 1875

    morris and co
  • 1883

    Antonio Gaudi (1852-1926) nature-based organic style. Much of his career was occupied with the construction of the Expiatory Temple of the Holy Family (Sagrada Família) which was from 1883-1926.
    Walter D Teague born
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    Walter D teague

  • 1887

    Marcello Nizzoli born
  • 1891

    Gio-Ponti
  • 1893

    Raymond Loewy & Norman Bel Geddes born
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    Norman Bel Geddes

  • 1895

    Art nouveau was named after Samuel Bing’s shop
    Art Nouveau was named formally after a shop opened in 1895 by Samuel Bing in Paris
    Harold Van Doren born
    Clara porset was born
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    Harold Van Doren

  • 1898

    Alvar alto was born
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    Art Deco

  • 1903

    Walter D Teague studies arts in Art Students League
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    Eva Zeisel

  • 1904

    Henry Dreyfuss born
  • 1905

    Expressionism
    Carlo Mollino
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    Expressionism

  • 1906

    Eva Zeisel born
  • 1907

    Desutscher Werkbund by Peter Behrens. It was an important organization formed by arquitects, designers and artists, which helped the development of modern arquitecture and modern industrial design
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    Deutscher Werkbund

  • 1908

    Josef Hoffmann designed the Seating Machine. Which demonstrate a rational simplification of forms.
    George Nelson is born
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    Deutscher Werkbund expanded from 491 to 1972 memberto

  • 1909

    Futurism manifesto by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti.
    Deutscher Werkbund The monumental turbine factory constructed for AEG
    Bel Geddes Streamline: describe smooth flow of air.
    Expressionism Egon Schiele is introduces to the works of Edvard Munch and Vinvent Van Gogh
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    Futurism

  • 1910

    Josef Hoffmann designed the Kubus Chair, a trend mark of the 19th Century and demonstrates the unique representation of geometric lines and cubes. Marcello Nizzoli attends the Scuola die Belle Arti in Parma. Expressionism Wassily Kandinsky´s The Last Judgment (painting) rejection from an art exhibition in Munich. The term "Expressionism" coined by Antonin Matejcek.
    Eero Saarinen is born
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    Futurism Antonio Sant'Elia La Città Nuova (The New City)

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    Expressionism Egon Schiele worked and exhibited until his death in Austria by influenza

  • 1913

    Expressionism Kirchner´s Street, Berlin.
    Deutscher Werkbund "Art in Industry and Trade"
  • 1914

    Josef Hoffmann designed the “Austrian Pavilions” for the Deutscher Werkbund exhibition in Cologne. Clara porset From1914 to 1918 studies at Manhatanville Academy, Nueva York.
    Expressionism World War I kills Franz Marc and Auguste Macke
    Deutscher Werkbund "Transport".
    First Werkbund Exhibition in Cologne
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    Art Deco is posponed due to World War I

  • 1915

    Constructivism
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    Constructivism

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    Deutscher Werkbund expanded from 1972 to 3000 members

  • 1916

    Bel Geddes Los Angeles Little Theater
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    Marco sanuzo

    He was one of the leading interpreters of the Modern Movement.He was awarded the Medaglia d'oro and the Gran Premio on a number of occasions, and won five Compassi d’Oro between 1956 and 1985. Zanuso was one of the first designers in Italy to take an interest in the problems of product industrialisation, going beyond aesthetic issues to incorporate technological, industrial, distribution and communication variables.“Through my projects I want to give form to what I call complexity” Marco Zanuso.
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    Neoplasticism training and development in the Netherlands

  • 1917

    Neoplasticism starts.
    Van Doren joins Williams College
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    De Stijl (Neoplasticism)

  • 1918

    Norman Bel Geddes designs for the metropolitan opera.
    Composition VIII (The Cow)
    1918 Marcello Nizzoli opened a studio in Milan and designed silk scarves featuring patterns in the Art déco style, which he showed at the Monza Biennale in 1923 and in Paris in 1925.
  • 1919

    Constructivism Malevich and Tatlin came toghether at "The Last Futurist exhibition of painting"
    Bauhaus school founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar, Germany
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    Zeisel starts learning at a guild of potters

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    Bauhaus building in Dessau, Germany by Walter Gropius

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    Deutscher Werkbund Exhibitions and Standardization of Design/Materials

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    BAUHAUS

  • 1920

    Art Deco It was a movement started in france before the World War I.
    Marcello Nizzoli designed posters for Campari, Maga, and OM as a graphic designer in the 1920s.
    Futurism vanished from Germany marked as degenerate art by fascists
    Constructivism Tatlin exhibits "Monument for the Third International" and the movement is born
    Bauhaus Itten leaves and is replaced by Moholy-Nagy
  • 1921

    Exhibition of Designs
    The first working group of constructivists is established (Varvara Stepanova, Alexander Rodchenko, etc.)
    Alvar Aalto opens architecture office at Jyvaskyla
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    Neoplasticism fullness and international expansion

  • 1922

    Aalto collaborates with Bjerke for the design of the Congress Hall.
    Art Deco The Firebird by René Lalique.
    A manifesto claims art as "A tool of progress" and Constructivism is turned into the symbol of the modern era.
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    Van Doren Art Student League in New York

  • 1924

    Deutscher Werkbund "Form ohne Ornament" (Form without Ornaments) in Berlin
  • 1925

    Clara Porset art studies at Columbia University, Nueva York.
    Art Deco Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann emerged as the foremost furniture designer.
    Bauhaus moves to Dessau, Germany.
    Art Deco is offcially launched with the Paris exhibition
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    Neoplasticism transformation and disintegration

  • 1926

    Walter D. Teague formed his exclusive office of design.
    Art Deco A smaller version of the French fair travelled many US states featuring Art Deco.
  • 1927

    Norman Bel Geddes opens his industrial design office.
    Walter D Teague worked with Kodak.
    Major Werkbund exhibition "Die Wohnung" (The Apartment) by Mies van der Rohe in Stuttgart
  • 1928

    Clara Porset From 1928 to 1931 studies architecture in Paris at Henri Rapin’s atellier takes several course of Art History and aesthetics in several institutions.
    Art Deco Victoire by Rene Lalique.
    Bauhaus director Gropius is replaced by Hannes Meyer
  • 1929

    Henry Dreyfuss opens the 1st industrial design office.
    Deutscher Werkbund "Wohnung und Werkraum" (Home and Workplace), in Breslau.
    Bel Geddes Airliner number 4.
    Henry Dreyfuss won the phone of the future award.
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    Union des artistes modernes

  • 1930

    Walter D Teague Designed the marmon 16
    Thonet’s company was the world’s largest producer of steel.
    Marcello Nizzoli also worked for Olivetti as a graphic designer from the 1930s.
    Carlo Mollino started his career as an architect designing a house in Forte dei Marmi and receiving the G. Pistono prize for architecture.
    Henry Dreyfuss starts working for Bell Laboratories.
    Bauhaus Meyer is dismissed as director due to his Marxism.
    Alto starts production with bent birch wood.
  • 1930

    Deutscher Werkbund "Das vorbildliche Serienerzeugnis" (The Ideal Series Product) in Hanover.
    L'Art moderne cadre de la vie contemporaine, was held at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris
  • 1931

    Van Doren design office with John Gordon Rideout (Toledo Scale Company)
    Deutscher Werkbund "Der billige Gebrauchsgegenstand" (The Inexpensive Object of Utility) in Berlin
  • 1932

    Norman Bel Geddes writes his book Horizon.
    Bauhaus moves to Berlin under the direction of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
    Bauhaus in Dessau is closed after Nazis come to power locally.
    George Nelson wins the Prix de Rome in architecture.
    Futurism Florence Santa Maria Novella by Gruppo Toscano.
    Deutscher Werkbund "Wohnbedarf" (Living Neccessities) in Stuttgart
  • 1933

    Henry Dreyfuss designs the Flat-top Refrigerator.
    Bauhaus is finally closed when Nazis come to power in Berlin.
    Aalto did the Yirong Municipal Library.
    Art Deco American World Fair in Chicago features Art Deco.
    Van Doren Air King Products (radio).
    Rideout and Van Doren’s studio designed a green plastic skyscraper style radio (Air King Products)./ Alvar Aalto founded Artek (Architectural firm). Deutscher Werkbund is disbanded by the Nazis
  • 1934

    Norma Bel Geddes New York World Fav Futurama
    Union des artisted modernes manifesto entitled "For modern art, framework of the contemporary life" edited by Jean Carlu.
    Van Doren gasoline pump and fortune magazine.
    Henry Dreyfuss Model 150 Vacuum cleaner.
    Futurism Trento railway station by Angiolo Mazzoni.
  • 1935

    Rideout left the studio which became Harold Van Doren and Associates.
    American National Company (Bicycles)
  • 1936

    1936
    Marcello Nizzoli became head product-design consultant for Olivetti.
    1936 and 1939, Mollino designs, in collaboration with Vittorio Baudi di Selve, the Società Ippica Torinese building in Turin, considered his masterpiece. Clara porset In 1936 moves to México to work at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México to substitute Carlos Pellicer giving his Art History class.
    J.M. Little joined the Harold Van Doren and Associates.
    Saarinen worked in his father's architectural practice.
  • 1937

    manifesto entitled "For modern art, framework of the contemporary life" edited by Jean Carlu.
    Donald Dailey joined Harold Van Doren and Associates.
    Art Deco The Atlas by Lee Lawrie
  • 1938

    Clara porset marries painter Xavier Guerrero develops her appreciation of popular arts and mexican culture, which would serve as a source of inspiration for future works.
    Alavr Aalto Created “Villa Mairea”
    Zeisel lands in New York with her husband Hands
  • 1938

    Giogetto Giugaro is born
  • 1939

    Art Deco The American World Fair in New York features Art Deco.
    Walter D Teague does an exposition in the Golden Gate.
    Harold Van Doren and Associates designs de Master Washer (Maytag).
    Henry Dreyfuss Big Ben Westclocks.
    Bel Geddes New York world fair "Futurama".
    Van Doren Master Washer
  • 1940

    1940
    Marcello Nizzoli Summa.
    Saarinen and Eames took part in the "Organic design in Home Furnishings" competition mounted by the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
    Bel Geddes book: Magic Motorways.
    Van Doren published “Industrial Design: A Practical Guide.
  • 1941

    Klaus Grabe, Morley Webb & Michael Van Beuren win the international section of the Organic Design for Home Furnishings contest Michael Van Beuren, former Bauhaus student founds his furniture company Domus in the mid1930’s
  • 1944

    Bel Geddes Mark I Computer
  • 1945

    1945
    1945-1965 Birth of Bel design Italiano
    Laboratorios Nacionales de Fomento Industrial (LANFI).
    George Nelson designed the Storage Wall Shelves
  • 1946

    Eva Zeisel gains national notice with porcelanite table service´s first show devoted soldy to a female designer.
    Nelson became the Design Director at Herman Miller.
    George Nelson made his own firm.
    Zeisel gains national notice with the porcelain table service´s first show devoted solely to a female designer.
  • 1947

    1947
    Divisumma 14 by Nizzoli
    Eero Saarinen did the Grasshopper chair
  • 1948

    Marcello Nizzoli also worked for Olivetti as an architect, designing living quarters for employees from 1948 and, in the 1960s
    Eero Saarinen did the Womb Collection
  • 1948

    Marshall plan begins
  • 1949

    1949
    Henry Dreyfuss model 500 desktop.
    Deutscher Werkbund is revived after World War II
  • 1950

    Walter D Teague designed interiors for the air force academy Boeing 707 jet airline.
    Saarinen took over his father’s practice, running it as Saarinen & Associates
  • 1951

    Eero Sarinen designed the "Saarinen Collection" for Knoll, consisting of several office chairs, one of the first lines in designer office furniture.
  • 1952

    1952
    Mollino designed the RAI Auditorium in Turin
  • 1952

    Talleres de Artesanos Carlos Lazo del Pino de la Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Obras Públicas
    Walter D Teague wrote Flour for Man´s Bread
  • 1952

    Giugaro moved to Turin to enroll in Golia design school
  • 1953

    Franco Albini Cicognino.
    Henry Dreyfuss round thermostate
  • 1954

    1954
    Elettrosumma Duplex
  • 1955

    1955
    Henry Dreyfuss Designing for people Josephine & Joe, Raymond Loewy introduced the first king size slenderized coca-cola bottle
    POP Design was born.
    Audit 202
  • 1956

    1956
    Tetraktys by Nizzoli
  • 1956

    1956
    Henry Dreyfuss wall mounted telephone
  • 1956

    1956
    Nelson designed the Marshmallow Sofa.
  • 1957

    1957
    Marcello Nizzoli designed handsome-looking, functional sewing machines, including the "Mirella" (1957) and the "Supernova Julia" (1961).
  • 1958

    George Nelson Did Knoll international.
    Henry Dreyfuss push button telephone.
    Norman Bel Geddes dies
  • 1959

    Escuela de Diseño Industrial UIA (bachillerato técnico). Implementación del Plan de los once Años. Crecimiento de educación en artes y humanidades, descentralización de la educación superior
    Henry Dreyfuss princess telephone
  • 1959

    Giugiaro submitted a trial proposal to the legendary design house of Bertone
  • 1960

    Henry Dreyfuss The Measure of Men.
    Walter D Teague dies
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    Zeisel takes a break from designing

  • 1961

    Escuela de Diseño Industrial UIA (Licenciatura) Talleres de Artesanos Carlos Lazo del Pino se transforma en Escuela de Diseño y Artesanía del INBA.
    Eero Saarinen dies
  • 1962

    Raymond Loewy redesigned Air Force One Aircraft
  • 1964

    Cursos de diseño industrial para graduados e investigadores (Escuela Nacional de Arquitectura UNAM)
  • 1965

    Henry Dreyfuss became president of the IDSA
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    1965 and 1973

    Carlo Mollino designed the two buildings that made him famous: the Camera di Commercio building and the Teatro Regio Torino (Regio Theater), both in Turin
  • 1966

    Giugaro is booted out of Bertone in favor of Marcello Gandini.
    Giugiaro headed to rival design house Ghia on a single-year contract
  • 1967

    The De Tomaso Mangusta design became the basis for Giugiaro’s own Italdesign studio in 1967.
  • 1968

    Celebración de los Juegos Olímpicos de México
    Arq. Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, presidente Comité Organizador
    Eduardo Terrazas, colaborador de Lance Wyman
    Diseñador Lance Wyman, NY: sistema de información e imagen
  • 1969

    Licenciatura en Diseño Industrial UNAM dependiente de la Facultad de Arquitectura
    Herencia del Plan de los Once Años, crecimiento en la oferta educativa técnica, presiones demográficas en la educación media
  • 1970

    Exposición de artesanía finlandesa en la Casa de la Artesanía Jalisciense con obras de:
    Timo Sarpaneva
    Tapio Wirkkala
  • 1971

    Instituto Mexicano de Comercio Exterior: Centro de Diseño
    Inicio de cursos de licenciatura en diseño industrial Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara
  • 1971

    Henry Dreyfuss standards for signs and symbols
  • 1972

    Henry Dreyfuss Symbol Source Book
    Henry Dreyfuss dies.
  • 1973

    Tapio Wirkkala dicta conferencias en la UNAM y en la UAG
  • 1974

    Escuela de Diseño Industrial, Universidad de Monterrey, Universidad del Nuevo Mundo, UAM
  • 1975

    CODIGRAM, apertura del Centro de Diseño del IMCE en Guadalajara
    Sesión de trabajo de Kenji Ekuan y William Walsh en las oficinas del IMCE en Guadalajara
  • 1976

    Cierre del centro de diseño del IMCE, Seminario de Victor Papanek en la casa de la cultura jaliciense, febrero. Fundación de la Facultad de Diseño de la Universidad de Guadalajara: 20 de agosto de 1976.
    Alvar Aalto dies
  • 1979

    XI Congreso Mundial del ICSID, en la Ciudad de México
  • 1980

    Fundación de ALADI, Asociación Latinoamericana de Diseño Industrial
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    Zeisel resumes her work

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    1981-1983

    Vehículos Automotores Mexicanos fabrica el Lerma. 1er Encuentro de Estudiantes de Diseño Industrial, ENEDI, en la Universidad de Guadalajara
  • 1986

    George Nelson Dies
  • 1996

    1er Interdesign celebrado en México. Cuernavaca.
  • 1999

    1er Interdesign celebrado simultaneamente en tres paises: México, Australia, Sudáfrica
  • 2003

    Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
  • 2008

    Deutscher Werkbund 100th anniversary commemorated in Berlin
  • 2011

    Eva Zeisel dies at age 105