BMA 242 (Time Line Project)

BMA242

Timeline Project.

Timeline Information:

618 to 906: T’ang Dynasty used carved wooden blocks and ink make multiple transfers to paper.

868: the Diamond Sutra is printed the earliest dated printed book.

1045: Pi Sheng invents movable type, allowing for characters to be individually placed for printing.

1241: Koreans printed books using moveable type.

1300: China’s first use of wooden type.­

1392: Korea opens foundries that can make bronze type.

1423: Block printing used in Europe to print books

1450: Johann Gensfleisch zum Gutenburg credited with perfecting the system for printing type in books.

1452: Metal plates first used in Europe. Gutenberg Starts printing the Bible.

1456: Gutenberg Finishes printing the Bible.

1457: Fust and Schoeffer make the first colour print.

1460: Albrecht Pfister the first to add illustrations to a printed book.

1465: Germans invent Drypoint engravings.

1470: Nicolas Jenson, considered one of history’s greatest typeface designers, sets news standard for Roman type.

1476: William Caxton begins using a Gutenberg printing press in England

1477: Intaglio is first used for book illustration for a Flemish book called Il Monte Sancto di Dio.

1501: Italic type first used.

1530: Claude Garamond opens first type foundry, developing and selling fonts to printers.

1611: King James Bible published.

1702: Multi-colored engraving invented by German Jakob Le Blon. The first English language daily newspaper is published called the Daily Courant.

1800: Iron printing presses invented.

1819: Rotary printing press invented by Napier.

1829: Embossed printing invented by Louis Braille.

1841: Type-composing machine invented.

1846: Cylinder press invented by Richard Hoe. Cylinder press can print 8,000 sheets an hour.

1863: Rotary web-fed letterpress invented by William Bullock.

1865: Web offset press can print on both sides of paper at once.

1886: Linotype composing machine invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler.

1870: Paper is now mass-manufactured from wood pulp.

1878: Photogravure printing invented by Karl Klic.

1891: Printing presses can now print and fold 90,000 4-page papers an hour. Diazotype invented (print photographs on fabric).

1892: 4-color rotary press invented.

1904: Offset lithography becomes common. The first comic book is published.

1907: Commercial silk screening invented.

1947: Phototypesetting made practical

1645: Post-och Inrikes Tidningar is published in Sweden and is still being published today, making it the world's oldest newspaper.

1704: Considered the world’s first journalist, Daniel Defoe publishs the Review.

1722: First Caslon Old Style font developed, later used for the printing of the Declaration of Independence.

1760: Industrial Revolution begins, setting the stage for advances in graphic design production.

1800: Lord Stanhope invents first printing press made of all cast-iron parts, requiring 1/10 the manual labor and doubling the possible paper size.

1816: First sans-serif font makes a subtle entrance as one line of a book.

1879: The benday process improves newspapers. The first whole page newspaper ad placed by an American department store (John Wanamaker) is run.

1880: First halftone photograph (Shantytown) published in a newspaper. Development of halftone screen allows for first photo printed with a full range of tones.

1890: Art Nouveau movement begins and changes design, making its way into all types of commercial design and utilizing all types of arts.

1917: James Montgomery Flagg designs famous “I Want YOU for the U.S. Army” poster. The poster, a self-portrait, was actually an American version of a British poster by Alfred Leete.

1919: The Bauhaus, a German school, is founded, eventually providing the framework for modern design.

1932: Stanley Morison oversees design of Times New Roman font, commissioned by the Times of London.

1933: A war breaks out between the newspaper and radio industries. American newspapers try to force the Associated Press to terminate news service to radio stations. .

1957: Max Miedinger designs Neue Haas Grotesk font, later renamed Helvetica.

1967: Newspapers use digital production processes and began using computers for operations. .

1969: Douglas Engelbart develops first computer mouse, setting the stage for the future tool of graphic design.

1984: Apple releases first Macintosh computer, featuring bitmap graphics.

1990: Photoshop version one released, and physicist Tim Berners-Lee develops the World Wide Web, along with HTML and the concept of website addresses.

2009: This was the worst year in decades as far as advertising revenues for newspapers. However, newspapers are moving into online internet versions

Information sourced from:

http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/printing_3.htm

http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/printing_4.htm

http://graphicdesign.about.com/od/history/a/timeline1.htm

http://graphicdesign.about.com/od/history/a/timeline2.htm