Graphic Design Timeline

By vr091425
  • Feb 15, 1401

    Invention of Movable Type

  • WW2 Starts

  • Paul Rand

    Paul Rand was born

  • opening of the Bauhaus School

    Walter Gropius opened Bauhaus. Bauhautook a modernist approach to unification of arts and craft.

  • Saul Bass

    Saul Bass was born

  • Dadaism

    The art movement started as a reaction to the first world war.

  • Term Graphic Design invented

    William Addison Dwiggins came up witth the term "graphic design" to describe his process of desingning books.

  • Serial Art

    Serial art was invented.

  • Closing of Bauhaus

    Bauhaus closes abruptly due to intense pressure from the Nazi party

  • WW2 Starts

  • Wolfgang Weingart

    Wolfgang Weingart was born.

  • Peter Saville

    Peter Saville was born

  • Serial Art debut

    Serial Art makes its way into the public eye with the talents being showed from artists like Karl Gerstner andSol Lewitt.

  • Swiss Style

    The term Swiss Style invented to describe the new approach to graphic design that came from Switzerland.

  • Stefan Sagmeister

    Stefan Sagmeister was born

  • Chip Kidd

    Chip Kidd was born