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1850-1890
Willliam Morris sets up an art-decorating firm

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1870-1885
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1880-1920

1884 The Linotype Machine was invented

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1910-1945
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1915-1920
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1919 The Bauhaus is founded in Germany

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1920-1940

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1926 Herbert Bayer designed the Bauhaus Poster

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1930-1950

1940 First issue of the Print Magazine is printed

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1940 First issue of the Print Magazine is printed

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1955-1970
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Refers not as much to the art itself as to the attitudes that led to it. Employs aspects of mass culture such as mundane cultural objects The use of words as the central artistic element. Recycling of past styles in modern day context

1932 Stanley Morrison overseas design of Times New Roman font

1940-1950

1957 Max Miedinger designs the Helvetica font

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1980-Now
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Willliam Morris sets up an art-decorating firm.

1956 Paul Rand Designs the IBM logo

1970-1995

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Cutting edge, new, fresh, and original. Favouring sans-serif lettering

German School influencing art, typography & graphic design. Focussed on simplified forms, rationality and function

Linotype machine was invented. Development of the halftone screens allowing printing of the first photo.

1890-1910
Founded in resistance to arts & crafts movement and the work of Willliam Morris Aesthetic design and decoration. Influenced by Ruskins social criticism.

1910-1920
Analyses objects, breaks them up & reassembles them in an abstracted form.

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Rich colours, bold geometric shapes, ornamented. Stood for luxury, glamour and exuberance

Founded by writer Filipo Tommaso Marinetti expressing a distaste for everything old. Focused on speed, technology and youth. Anti-art that embraced chaos and irrationality, fighting capuitalism and the bourgeois 1984 Apple releases Mac Computer featuring the bitmap graphics

1910-1945
Avant-garde stle beginning before WWI, distorted reality to provoke emotion and thought

1920-1965
focussed on fine art, literature, film & music. Having elements of unexpected juxtaposition

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1915-1930
Advocated pure abstraction & universality by reducing essential of form & colour using only black, white & primary colours

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Referred to as Swiss Style. Attention to detail, precision, craft simplicity and minimalistic style, with grid system

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1990 Photoshop is released. The world wide web begins