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William Addison Dwiggins
William Addison Dwiggins coins the term "Graphic Design" in an article written in the Boston Evening Transcript. Dwiggins used the term to describe the wide range of design skills he practiced such as type design, book design, and calligraphy. -
Otto Neurath
Pictograms were developed by Neurath in the 1930's originally as an alternative means of communicating. Today there are universal pictograms used in many contries around the world to identify places, things, and actions. (Dates approximate) -
Paul Rand
Rand gets a job doing an Apparel Arts magazine anniversary issue which resulted in landing him a full time position and the beginning of his industry leading design. (Dates approximite) -
Red means stop
Red octogon stop signs are introduced and become the requirement for stop signs in the U.S. Today the red octogon stop sign is globally recognized even in different languages. (Date Approximate) -
Saul Bass
Bass becomes famous after designer the title sequence for a film called The Man with the Golden Arm. He forever changed the standard in which film credits appeared. -
The IBM Logo
Paul Rand creates the iconic 13 bar IBM logo. The contrast of white and black bars broke up the traditional solid typeface and created a lighter effect. (Date Approximate) -
The D&AD is Founded
David Bailey, Terence Donovan, Alan Fletcher and Colin Forbes founded the Design and Art Direction to celebrate excellence in design and advertising. (Dates Approximate) -
Milton Glaser
Glasser creates the iconic I Love New York logo in the back of a taxi cab highlighting simplicity and white space in logo design. (Dates Approximate) -
The Internet
A team of researchers begins to create a "network of networks" which would eventually become the internet as we know it. In 1990, Tim Berners-Lee, a computer scientist, created the world wide web allowing people to communicate virtually and use websites. -
The first Macintosh Computer is introduced
Apple forever changed the world with the introduction of the Macintosh computer. The Graphic user interface and the mouse allowed people to be able to create art in ways they never imagined. -
Thomas and John Knoll
The Knoll brothers developed and leased Photoshop to Adobe forever changing the capabilities of Graphic Design. (Date Approximate) -
Photoshop 1.0
Licensed to Adobe by the Knoll Brothers, the first verson on Photoshop is released for Apple Macintosh Computers. -
My Fonts changes the game
My fonts is launched online changing the way designers can sell and buy fonts. -
London 2012
The controversial logo for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London is unveiled. It was designed to do something no other games logo had done before; to draw in the attention of a younger audience. It was produced in bright colors and even animated for use online. -
The iPad makes it debut
Steve Jobs introduces the Apple iPad to the world setting the standard of mobile tablet computers.
