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1. Liam Heeley

2. 15,000 – 10,000 BC
 The very first known visual
communication with pictographs and
symbols. This was in the lascaux caves
in southern France

3. 1276
 Printing arrived in Europe with a paper
mill in Fabriano, which is in Italy

4. 1460
 Albrecht Pfister was the first to use
movable type by adding illustrations to a
printed book

5. 1530
 Claude Garamond opened the first type
foundry, which sold and developed fonts
to printers

6. 1760
 The industrial revolution started, which
set the stage for advances in graphics
design

7. 1880
 The development of half tone screens
which allowed the first photo to be
printed with a full range of tones

8. 1910
 The beginning of corporate images, by
AEG (German general electric)

9. 1969
 Douglas Engelbart developed the first
computer mouse, this therefore set the
stage for graphics design

10. 1984
 Apple released the first Macintosh
computer which featured bitmap graphics
 The computer had a nine-inch screen and
$2,500 price tag!

11. 1990
 The very first version of photoshop is released
 Adobe bought the license to distribute the
program in September 1988

12. Liam Heeley

13. Paul Rand
 1914 – 1996
 Paul was best known for his corporate
logo designs, these logos included ABC,
morningstar and UPS

14. David Carson
 Born 1954
 David is best known for his innovative
magazine design, he is also known for
his experimental typography

15. Stefan Sagmeister
 Born 1962
 Stefan co-founded the design firm called
Sagmeister

16. Paula Scher
 Born 1948
 Paula was the first female principal at
Pentagram, in which she joined in 1991

17. Milton Glaser
 Born 1929
 Glaser is a very well known and
appreciated graphics designer, he has
designed the I ❤ NY logo and the
psychedelic Bob Dylan poster

18. Saul Bass
 1920 – 1996
 Saul was best known for his motion-
picture title sequences from many
successful films

19. Neville Brody
 Born 1957
 Brody is well known for his work on the
Face magazine and the Arena magazine

20. Alan Fletcher
 1931 – 2006
 Fletcher was so well known he was
descirbed by The Daily Telegraph as
“the most highly regarded graphic
designer of his generation”

21. Michael Bierut
 Born 1957
 Michael was the vice president of
graphic design at Vignelli Associates

22. Chip Kidd
 Born 1964
 Chip was best known for his innovative
book covers, for example ‘the cheese
monkeys’ and ‘Batman: death by design’