Final Timeline

  • Industrial revolution

    machines replace men work and they bring new technologies. 18th-19th century
  • 1796

    Michel Thonet and William morris are born
    Poor quality of design and art reform
    William Pickering and the importance of the separation of graphic design from printing production.
  • New techniques

    the use of Gutta-percha, papier mache and cast iron increase in this year
  • henry cole

    Henry Cole was born ( GE)
  • Michael Thonet & Arts and Crafts

    Michael Thonet creates his most iconic chair when he founds out wood can be bent
    Arts and Crafts Movement from 1830-1900
  • Parliamentary Committee

    The moral state of the nation. Morality and the ethical condition of a nation are reflected on its arts
  • Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce

    Henry Cole creates a Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce
  • Journal of Design and Manufacture

    Henry Cole did the journal of design and manufacture.
    First print ever about design
  • 1850

    Christopher Dresser
    Michael Thonet chair number 4
    Arts & Crafts movement started as a result of a reaction from the industrial revolution in England
  • GREAT EXHIBITION

  • Victoria and Albert Museum, National Museum of Art and Design.

    Henry Cole created the museum
  • Thonet Brothers

    Michael Thonet created Thonet Brothers
  • chair number 14 Michael Thonet

  • Aesthetic Movemen

    Aesthetic Movement, William Morris and Dante Gabriel Rossetti explored new ways of living against the standards of the age
  • Morris & Co.

    William Morris creates the Morris, Marshall & Faulkner
  • Adam Boari is Born

  • Toulouse-Lautrec

    Toulouse-Lautrec is born.
    He was a famous painter and poster artist
    influenced by japanese style and Edgar Degas (impressionist).
  • Hoffman

    hoffman is born
    founded the Wiener Werkstätte
    designs based on simple and clear proportions and employed rich, high-quality materials.
  • Antonio Gaudi

    nature-based organic style.
    most career based on the construction of the Expiatory Temple of the Holy Family
  • Walter D Teague is born

    Redesigns of two cameras Kodak in 1927
    Designed Marmon 16 in 1930
    Exhibits in New York and San Francisco
    Designed interiors and furnishings for the Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs in 1950
  • Gio Ponti is born

    1891-1979
  • Norman Bel Geddes Born in Michigan

  • The Scream

    expressionism
  • Clara Porset is bor

  • Art Nouveau

    Formally named
  • Harold Van Doren was born

  • Dorwin Teague studied "arts" in Arts Students League

  • Palacio de bellas artes

    by Adamo Boari and Federico Mariscal
    1904-1934
  • Henry dreyfuss was born

  • Expressionism

  • Viktor Schreckensost is born

  • The Term "Expressionism" coined

  • Eva Zeisel was born in Hungary

  • Seating Machine

    Josef Hoffmann designed the Seating Machine. Which demonstrate a rational simplification of forms.
  • George nelson is born

  • Geddes streamline: smooth flow of air

  • Gustav Klimt

    Expressionism
  • Futurism

    by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. 1909- late 20's
  • Eero Saarinen

    Eero Saarinen is born in Finland
  • Kubus Chair

    Josef Hoffmann designed the Kubus Chair, a trend mark of the 19th Century and demonstrates the unique representation of geometric lines and cubes.
  • The City Rises painting

  • Denounce of Venice

    Marinetti, Boccioni, Carrà, and Russolo issue “Against Passéist Venice,” which, along with various public pronouncements that year, denounces Venice, Rome, and Florence for their dependence on the tourist trade to the exclusion of modern industry.
  • Futurist paintings were exhibited in Milan at the Mostra d'arte libera

  • Manifesto of Futurist Musicians”

    Futurism
  • The Futurists hold their most extensive show to date at the Galerie Bernheim-Jeune in Paris

  • Unique Forms of Continuity in Space

  • Relif constructions

    Vladimir Yevgrafovich Tatlin. 1913-1917
  • Luigi Russolo wrote the manifiesto "the art of noises"

  • movement began to break apart as its members developed their own personal positions

    Futurism
  • Constructivism

    started in Russia
  • “Austrian Pavilions"

    Josef Hoffmann designed the “Austrian Pavilions” for the Deutscher Werkbund exhibition in Cologne.
  • Geddes Los Angeles little theather

  • Period of training and development in the Netherlands. Neoplasticism

    1916-1921
  • Van Doren Williams Collage

  • Neoplasticism

  • White Circle

  • Geddes Metropolitan Opera

  • Anton Giulio Bragaglia founds the Casa d’Arte Bragaglia in Rome

    it exhibited futurist artists
  • The Cow

  • Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge

    constructivism
  • Foundation of the Bauhaus Weimar

    till 1925. foundation by Walter Gropius
  • Eva Zeisel starts learning at a guild of potters till 1926

  • Walter Gropius Director of the Bauhaus

    1919-1927
  • Art Deco began in the 20's

  • Space-Force Construction

    constructivism
  • Neo. Period of fullness and international expansion.

    1921-1925
  • Constructivist Manifesto

    by Alexei Gan
  • Russische Ausstellung

    Constructivist works
  • Theory of Productivism

    Osip Brik. around 1922
  • Van Doren Design office

  • Eero Saarinen moves to USA

  • Bauhaus Dessau

    till 1932
  • Exposition des arts decoratifs

  • Neo. Period of transformation and disintegration.

    1925-1931
  • Walter D Teague formed his exclusive office design

  • Walter D. T. worked with KODAK

  • Norman Bel Geddes Opens Industrial design studio

  • Hannes Meyer director of the bauhaus

    1927-1930
  • Clara Porset Studies

    From 1928 to 1931 studies architecture in Paris at Henri Rapin’s atellier takes several course of Art History and aesthetics in several institutions.
  • henry dreyfuss 250 stage sets for theater

  • Chrysler Building construction

    1928-1930
  • Dreyfuss won Phone of the future

  • Eero Sarinen sculputure

    Studied sculpture in the Academie de la Grande Chaumière
  • Geddes airliner number 4

  • Henry D opens first ind design office

  • Henry D starts working with Bell laboratories

  • Mies van der Rohe Director of the Bauhaus

    1930-1933
  • Eero satinen Studied architecture in Yale

    1931-1934
  • Florence Santa Maria Novella

  • Geddes Horizons book

  • Bauhaus moved into a warehouse

  • Bauhaus Berlin

    till the closure in 1933
  • first cab-over-engine truck for White Truck.

    Schreckengost teamed up with engineer Ray Spiller to design the first cab-over-engine truck for White Truck.
  • end of expressionism

  • Henry D Flat top refrigerator

  • Harold Van Doren air King

  • Closing of the Bauhaus

  • Trento railway station

  • Van Doren Gasoline Pump

  • Eero Sarinen Worked with architect Jarl Eklund Finland

    1934-1935
  • Henry D Model 150 Vacuum Cleaner

  • Harold Van Doren Fortune magazine

  • Van Doren American National Company

    bicycles, scotters...
  • opens New Bauhaus in Chicago

  • Geddes new york world's fair: futurama

  • Dreyfuss Big Ben Westlock's

  • Eva Zeisel lands on NY with her husbands hands

  • Harold Van Doren wastil wacher

  • Dorwin Teague did an exposition in the GG

  • WWII began

  • Geddes book: Magic Motorways

  • Van Doren Industrial Design: a practical guide

  • Organic Design for Home Furnishings contest

    Klaus Grabe, Morley Webb & Michael Van Beuren win the international section of the Organic Design for Home Furnishings contest
  • Clara Porset

    contest Organic Design for Home Furnishing
  • marshall plan

    Stimulate industrial production
    Restoration of consumer confidence
    Economic recovery
  • WWII ended

  • storage wall concept revealed

  • George N Design Director at Herman Miller

  • "Grasshopper” armchair

  • Zeisel gains national notice with her porcelain table

  • Walter D.T. wrote "Land of Plenty a summary of 1947 possibilities"

  • “Womb” collection

  • Dorwin Teague designed interiors for the Air Force Academy

    Boeing 707 jet airline
  • Sheet Ball Clock

  • Action office desk

  • Pop design emerged in the 50s

  • Independent Group (Institute of Contemporary Art)

    Richard Hamilton
    Edouardo Paolozzi
    Peter Blake
    John McHale
    Lawrence Alloway
    Peter Reyner Banham
    Richard Smith
    Jon Thompson
  • 1952

    Talleres de Artesanos Carlos Lazo del Pino de la Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Obras Públicas Clara Porset organises the exhibition, El Arte en la vida diaria.
  • Dorwin Teague wrote " Flour for man's bread. A history of milling"

  • Jasper Johns – 3 flags, 1958

  • pop art Precursor

    The Independent Group (IG), founded in London in 1952, is regarded as the precursor to the pop art movement
  • Dreyfus Round thermostate

  • Dreyfuss Josephine and Joe

  • “Pedestal” collection

  • Marshmallow Sofa

  • Henry D Wall Mounted Telephone

  • Dreyfus push button telephone

  • Norman Bel Geddes death

  • Escuela de Diseño Industrial UIA (bachillerato técnico)

  • Dreyfuss princess telephone

  • Walter D Teague died

  • Dreyfuss The measure of man

  • Eva Zeisel took a break from designing till 1980

  • Eero Saarinen dies Sept. 1

  • Escuela de Diseño Industrial UIA (Licenciatura)

  • Andy Warhol – Marilyn Dyptych, 1962

  • 1962

    Trans World Airlines (TWA) terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York City
  • Cursos de diseño industrial para graduados e investigadores (Escuela Nacional de Arquitectura UNAM)

  • Henry D president of the IDSA

  • Olympic Games Mexico

  • Dreyfuss Standars for the sings and Symbols

  • Henry Dreyfuss death

  • Henry D Symbol Source book

  • CODIGRAM, apertura del Centro de Diseño del IMCE en Guadalajara

  • Sesión de trabajo de Kenji Ekuan y William Walsh en las oficinas del IMCE en Guadalajara

  • 1976

    Cierre del Centro de Diseño del IMCE
    Fundación de la Facultad de Diseño de la Universidad de Guadalajara
    Seminario de Victor Papanek en la Casa de la Cultura Jalisciense
  • Zeisel resumed her work until her death at 105 years old

  • 1er Encuentro de Estudiantes de Diseño Industrial, ENEDI, en la Universidad de Guadalajara

  • George Nelson Died

  • 1er Interdesign celebrado en México. Cuernavaca.

  • 1er Interdesign celebrado simultaneamente en tres paises: México, Australia, Sudáfrica

  • Eva Zeisel passed away