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Welcome to the first article on Graphic Design Basics. We hope to help the beginner, novice, and some professionals, in the area of Graphic Design. Before we can start, we need to review a brief timeline of graphic arts, and how we got to where we are now.

Overview

This article, and the following articles, will deal with Graphic Arts/Design for the beginner, novice and some professionals. It is broken up into the following categories: Timeline of Graphics, A Brief Technical History of Graphics, Graphics Today, and Details on Desktop Publishing.

Timeline of Graphics

15,000 ? 10,000 BC

First known visual communications (pictographs and symbols) in the Lascaux, France

105 AD

Chinese invent paper

1450

Johannes Gutenberg perfects the system for moveable type

1460

Albrecht Pfister is the first to add illustrations in a printed book

1530

Claude Garamond opens the first type foundry; develops and sells fonts to printers

1919

The German school Bauhaus is founded, paving the way for modern graphic design

1957

Max Miedinger designs Helvetica font

1969

American, Douglas Engelbart invents first computer mouse

1984

Apple releases first Macintosh computer with bitmap graphics

1985

Desktop Publishing begins with development of Aldus PageMaker software and Apple?s LaserWriter desktop printer using postscript language

1990

Version 1.0 of Photoshop released by Adobe

1990

Tim Berners-Lee develops World Wide Web, HTML, and concept of website addresses

2009

Today, you can publish, post, blog, tweet, email, spam, scan, cast, link, join, brand, print, transfer, cut, copy, paste, chat, game, and view virtually everything from your own home.

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