This document provides a brief history of graphic design from cave art through the modern era. It mentions the development of writing systems including cuneiform, hieroglyphs, and alphabets. In the 14th century most people were illiterate. Moveable type printing was invented in China in 1040 AD. During the Renaissance, humanist ideas spread along with printed materials. Graphic design styles evolved through periods including Art Nouveau, posters, lithography, airbrushing, photomontage, and digital media.

1. A Brief History of
Graphic Design

4. Cave Art

7. Cuneiform

9. http://www.penn.museum/cgi/cuneiform.cgi

10. Egyptians

11. Text

12. http://penn.museum/cgi/hieroglyphsreal.php

13. Other Cultures

14. Jiahu- 6600 BC
China

15. mayan script

16. Brahmi Script

17. Arabic Script

18. Greek Alphabet

19. Latin Alphabet

21. 8th century, AD

22. Carolingian minuscule.
Carolingian minuscule.
Carolingian Miniscule

23. Life in the 14th
century• Illiterate Population
• No Books
• Oral Culture
• Priests Make Announcements
• Roaming storytellers
• No Schools
• Society controlled by church and
aristocracy

25. Moveable Type

26. The world's first known
movable type system for
printing was created in China
around 1040 A.D. by Bi Sheng
(990–1051) during the
Northern Song Dynasty (960–
1127)

31. Demo

32. Italian Renaissance
The Rise of The Humanists
mid-15th century

33. Aldus Minutius

36. 16th century France

48. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki6rcXvUWP0

49. Poster Design

51. Lithography

52. Toulouse-Lautrec

53. Video

54. Art Nouveau

68. airbrush

71. vintage ad browser

72. photomontage

96. 1920s

97. 1930s

98. 1940s

99. 1950s

100. 1960s

101. 1970s

102. 1980s

103. 1990s

104. 2000s

121. video