HISTORY OF GRAPHIC DESIGN

5,000 - 10,000 BC - The first known visual communication, with pictographs and symbols in the Lascaux caves in southern France.

3600 BC - The Blau Monument, the oldest artifact known to combine words and pictures.

105 AD - Chinese government official Ts'ai Lun credited with inventing paper.

1045 AD - Pi Sheng invents movable type, allowing for characters to be individually placed for printing.

1276 - Printing arrives in Europe with a paper mill in Fabriano, Italy.

1450 - Johann Gensfleisch 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's greatest typeface designers, sets news standard 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 Revolution begins, setting the stage for advances in graphic design production.

1796 - Author Aloys Senefelder develops lithography.

1800 - Lord Stanhope invents first printing press made of all cast-iron parts, requiring 1/10 the manual labor and doubling the possible paper size.

1816 - First sans-serif font makes a subtle entrance as one line of a book.

1880 - Development of halftone screen allows for first photo printed with a full range of tones.

1890 - Art Nouveau movement begins and changes design, making its way into all types of commercial design and utilizing all types of art.

1917 - James Montgomery Flagg designs famous "I Want YOU for the U.S. Army" poster. The poster, a self-portrait, was actually an American version of a British poster by Alfred Leete.

1919 - The Bauhaus, a German school of art, is founded, eventually providing the framework for modern design.

1932 - Stanley Morison oversees design of Times New Roman font, commissioned by the Times of London.

1940 - First issue of Print Magazine printed.

1956 - Paul Rand designs IBM logo using City Medium typeface.

1957 - Max Miedinger designs Neue Haas Grotesk font, later renamed Helvetica.

1959 - First issue of Communication Arts printed.

1969 - Douglas Engelbart develops first computer mouse, setting the stage for the future tool of graphic design.

1984 - Apple releases first Macintosh computer, featuring bitmap graphics.

1985 - Aldus, formed by Paul Brainerd, develops PageMaker software. New York firm Manhattan Design creates the MTV logo.

1990 - Photoshop version one released, and physicist Tim Berners-Lee developed the world wide web, along with HTML and the concept of website addresses.  

WHAT IS GRAPHIC DESIGN ?

Graphic design is a form of visual communication that could help us to sell something or persuade someone and even to send a message without using verbal communication.

Graphic design is a part of our daily life. It's all around us. The uses of graphic design is commonly include identity, publications, print advertisements, posters, billboards, website graphics and elements, signs or icon, and product packaging.

LOGO - a graphic mark or symbol commonly used by commercial enterprises, organizations and even individuals to aid and promote instant public recognition.

BILLBOARD - a large outdoor advertising structure, typically found in high-traffic areas such as alongside busy roads; present large advertisements to passing pedestrians and drivers.

ADVERTISEMENT - a form of marketing communication used to encourage, persuade, or manipulate someone to take some action.

BROCHURE - a flyer, pamphlet or leaflet that is used to pass information about something; an advertising pieces mainly used to introduce a company and inform about products and/or services to the audience.

PRODUCT PACKAGING - the process of design, evaluation and production of packages; contains protects, preserves, transports, informs, and sells.

WEBSITE - a set of related web pages typically served from a single web domain.

GREETING CARD - an illustrated, folded card featuring an expression of sentiment; usually given on special occasions; sent to convey thanks or express other feeling.

ICON - a graphic representation of something, a person or thing that is symbolic or is a noted figure.

POSTER - a piece of printed paper designed to be attached to a wall or vertical surface; include both textual and graphic elements.

BOOK DESIGN - the art of incorporating the content, style, format, design, and sequence of the various components of a book into a coherent whole.

CORPORATE STATIONARY - known as office supplies for a company such as paper, envelopes, name card, pen, small bag and etc.

WHAT IS COLOR ?

Color is the element of art that is produced when light striking an object, is reflected back to the eye. Color plays important roles in our life. Without color, our world would be only black and white; cold, dark and empty. "Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions." - Pablo Picasso.

Colors can convey emotions, express personality and send messages. Each colors can represented our mood and personality. For example, red color shows passion, strength, love and bravery. Blue represented trust, loyalty and peace. Yellow is optimistic, cheerful and happy. Different colors, different mood.

MOVIE POSTER BASIC COMPUTER

I'm making the movie poster of an animation movie, "The Book of Life" for my basic computer assignment. I combined 40 pictures layer by layer in Photoshop before add on the title in AI.

The process of editing pictures in Photoshop.

Add on the title and details using AI. After finish add on everything, my movie poster has finally completed. The end.

NAME CARD

Making my own name card. I'm making an event organizer's name card. I used pink and also others colorful color to make my name card more pleasant and attractive to the eyes of the people. When I think about an event organizer, I thought of the Alice in the Wonderland, the "Mad Hatter". I thought of balloons and hat. These is how my name card ended up.