1962 Fletcher, Forbes & Gill founded
1962 Cuban missile crisis
1962 Andy Warhol exhibits his Campbell’s Soup Cans
1962 Berg joins CBS Records
1962 Venturi, Grand’s Restaurant supergraphics
1962 Cuban missile crisis
1962 Andy Warhol exhibits his Campbell’s Soup Cans
1962 Berg joins CBS Records
1962 Venturi, Grand’s Restaurant supergraphics
1963 Kennedy assassinated
1963 Tanaka design studio opens; Total Design opens in Amsterdam
1963 Tanaka design studio opens; Total Design opens in Amsterdam
1965 U.S. troops sent to Vietnam
1967 Wilson & Moscoso, psychedelic posters
1968 – Ulm School of Design closes; Stankowski, Berlin design program;
1968 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated
1969 Compuserve, 1st commercial online service
1969 Spencer, Pioneers of Modern Typography
1969 Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin land on the Moon
1968 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated
1969 Compuserve, 1st commercial online service
1969 Spencer, Pioneers of Modern Typography
1969 Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin land on the Moon
1970s:The Vietnam War was still a major event in the beginning of the 1970s. There were other tragic events this decade as well, including the deadliest earthquake of the century, the Jonestown massacre, the Munich Olympics massacre, and the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island. Culturally, disco became extremely popular and Star Wars hit theaters.
1970s Richards, Pirtle & others, Texas becomes a major design center
1970s Postmodernism designates design breaking with modernism
1970 António Salazar dies
1970 Igarashi, Sato open studios
1970 Kent State shootings
1970 Computer floppy disk is introduced
1970 – International Typeface Corporation begins
1970s – International Typographic Style becomes dominant throughout the world
1970s Postmodernism designates design breaking with modernism
1970 António Salazar dies
1970 Igarashi, Sato open studios
1970 Kent State shootings
1970 Computer floppy disk is introduced
1970 – International Typeface Corporation begins
1970s – International Typographic Style becomes dominant throughout the world
1971 Katherine and Michael McCoy cochair Michigan’s Cranbook Academy of Art design department
1973 U.S. pulls most troops out of Vietnam
1974 Nixon resigns as president
1975 Microsoft founded
c 1975 Igarashi, isometric alphabets
1976 Oxenaar, PTT Aesthetic Advisor
1974 Nixon resigns as president
1975 Microsoft founded
c 1975 Igarashi, isometric alphabets
1976 Oxenaar, PTT Aesthetic Advisor
1977 Studio Dumbar opens; Wild Plakken forms
1979 Iranian revolution
1980s: Mikhail Gorbachev's policies of glasnost and perestroika began the end of the Cold War. This was soon followed by the surprising fall of the Berlin Wall. There were also some disasters this decade, including the eruption of Mt. St. Helens, the oil spill of the Exxon Valdez, the Ethiopian Famine, a huge poison gas leak in Bhopal, and the discovery of AIDS. Culturally, the 1980s saw the introduction of the mesmerizing Rubik's Cube toy, Pac-Man video game, and Michael Jackson's Thriller video.
1981 MTV launched
1981 AIDS epidemic recognized
1984 Apple’s first generation Macintosh computer
1981 AIDS epidemic recognized
1984 Apple’s first generation Macintosh computer
1985 Aldus introduced PageMaker software for the Macintosh computer
1985 Apple laser printer
1985 The first version of Microsoft Windows is released
1986 U.S. space shuttle Challenger explodes during launch
1985 Apple laser printer
1985 The first version of Microsoft Windows is released
1986 U.S. space shuttle Challenger explodes during launch
1987 Altmann, Ellis & Greenhalgh cofound Why Not Associates
1989 Estrada opens own graphic design studio
1989 Charles S. Anderson Design Co. formed
1989 Berlin Wall comes down
1989 Abbott Miller and Ellen Lupton form Design/Writing/Research
1990 Hubble Telescope launched into space
1990 Macintosh II color computer; Bernes-Lee, HTML programming language
1989 Charles S. Anderson Design Co. formed
1989 Berlin Wall comes down
1989 Abbott Miller and Ellen Lupton form Design/Writing/Research
1990 Hubble Telescope launched into space
1990 Macintosh II color computer; Bernes-Lee, HTML programming language
1990s: The Cold War ends, Nelson Mandela is released from prison, the Internet becomes popular - in many ways the 1990s seemed a decade of both hope and relief. Unfortunately, the decade also saw its fair share of tragedy, including the Oklahoma City bombing, Columbine High School massacre, and the Rwandan genocide.
1991 Kuhr, color-xeroxed prototype for Wired magazine
1991 Soviet Union collapses
1991 van Toorn becomes director of the Jan van Eyck Academy
1991 – Jacqueline S. Casey dies
1991 Soviet Union collapses
1991 van Toorn becomes director of the Jan van Eyck Academy
1991 – Jacqueline S. Casey dies
1992 Adobe released its first multiple-master typefaces
1994 33 percent of US households have computers
1994 Hard Werken becomes Inízio
1994 33 percent of US households have computers
1994 Hard Werken becomes Inízio
1995 Oklahoma City bombing
1995 Dan Friedman dies
1995 – Bradbury Thompson dies
1996 – Paul Rand dies
1996 – Muller-Brockmann dies
1995 Dan Friedman dies
1995 – Bradbury Thompson dies
1996 – Paul Rand dies
1996 – Muller-Brockmann dies
1996 HIV infects 27.9 million people
1997 Stolk, Briners & van den Dungen form Experimental Jetset
1999 The number of Internet users worldwide reaches 150 million worldwide
1997 Stolk, Briners & van den Dungen form Experimental Jetset
1999 The number of Internet users worldwide reaches 150 million worldwide
21st Century
The first years of the 21st century have been marked by the rise of a global economy and Third World consumerism, mistrust in government, deepening global concern over terrorism and an increase in the power of private enterprise. The Arab Spring of the early 2010s led to mixed outcomes in the Arab world. The Digital Revolution, which began around the 1980s, also continues into the present. The world population began the century at 6.1 billion and grew to about 7 billion within a decade. The completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003 marks the continual rise of Life Sciences, which makes mankind's long-held dreams such as curing cancer more realistic. While digital technology, in its early stages of mainstream use in the 1980s and 1990s, became widely accepted by most of the world, though concerns about stress from the overuse of mobile phones, the Internet and related technologies remains controversial.[ix]
The first years of the 21st century have been marked by the rise of a global economy and Third World consumerism, mistrust in government, deepening global concern over terrorism and an increase in the power of private enterprise. The Arab Spring of the early 2010s led to mixed outcomes in the Arab world. The Digital Revolution, which began around the 1980s, also continues into the present. The world population began the century at 6.1 billion and grew to about 7 billion within a decade. The completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003 marks the continual rise of Life Sciences, which makes mankind's long-held dreams such as curing cancer more realistic. While digital technology, in its early stages of mainstream use in the 1980s and 1990s, became widely accepted by most of the world, though concerns about stress from the overuse of mobile phones, the Internet and related technologies remains controversial.[ix]
2001 September 11th terrorist attacks on the United States
2001 Apple releases iPod MP3 music player
2001 Apple releases iPod MP3 music player
2003 First Iranian Typography Exhibition
2003 The US space shuttle Columbiaexplodes, killing 7 astronauts
2003 The US space shuttle Columbiaexplodes, killing 7 astronauts
2004 The Summer Olympics are held in Athens
2005 More than 800 million internet users globally, 200 million in the US
2007 Ingmar Bergman dies
2007 Apple introduces the iPhone
2007 Erik Spiekermann appointed to board of directors at Microsoft
2005 More than 800 million internet users globally, 200 million in the US
2007 Ingmar Bergman dies
2007 Apple introduces the iPhone
2007 Erik Spiekermann appointed to board of directors at Microsoft
2008 Fidel Castro resigns from the Cuban Presidency
2008 The Summer Olympics are held in Beijing
2008 The world stock exchanges crash, triggering a global recession
2009 Barack Obama inaugurated president of the United States
2010 Apple introduces the iPad
2008 The Summer Olympics are held in Beijing
2008 The world stock exchanges crash, triggering a global recession
2009 Barack Obama inaugurated president of the United States
2010 Apple introduces the iPad
Endnotes
[i] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_antiquity
[ii] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road
[iii] http://www2.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/markport/lit/introlit/medieval.htm
[iv] http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/497731/Renaissance
[v] http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Age_of_Enlightenment.html
[vi] http://www.history.com/topics/industrial-revolution
[vii] http://www.victoriaspast.com/FrontPorch/victorianera.htm
[viii] http://history1900s.about.com/od/timelines/tp/timeline.htm
[ix] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21st_century
[i] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_antiquity
[ii] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road
[iii] http://www2.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/markport/lit/introlit/medieval.htm
[iv] http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/497731/Renaissance
[v] http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Age_of_Enlightenment.html
[vi] http://www.history.com/topics/industrial-revolution
[vii] http://www.victoriaspast.com/FrontPorch/victorianera.htm
[viii] http://history1900s.about.com/od/timelines/tp/timeline.htm
[ix] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21st_century