A BRIEFHISTORYOF GRAPHIC

COMMUNICATION

PAST PRESENT FUTURE

GRAPHIC COMMUNICATIONS ISSHAPED BY…

The Beginning…

The earliest known cave painting dates back to 40,800 B.C.

Next Significant Sight of Graphic Communication…

With the development of Protolanguage, the Sumerians developed the first “true” language known as Cuneiform written on stone tablets around 3,500 B.C..

3,000 B.C. – 500 A.D.

• Ancient Egyptians utilize stone and “paper” papyrus to record hieroglyphics

Woodblock Printing• Developed as early as 220 B.C.~ in China

during the Han Dynasty. Printing on silks, cloth and primitive paper.

400-500 A.D.• The Codex and the Illuminated Manuscript

created by monks, Age of Enlightenment

1440 A.D. - Gutenberg Press

• Johannes Gutenberg – Germany• The device applies pressure to a print

medium that rests on an inked surface made of movable type, thereby transferring the ink. Typically used for texts, the invention and spread of the printing press are widely regarded as among the most influential events in human history,

revolutionizing the way people conceive and describe the world they live in, and ushering in the period of modernity.

Lithography 1796 A.D• German, Alois Senefelder• Today, most types of high-volume books and

magazines, especially when illustrated in colour, are printed with offset lithography, which has become the most common form of printing technology since the 1960s

Screen Printing – 1910 A.D.• Screen printing appeared as form of stenciling

that first appeared in a recognizable form in China during the Song Dynasty (960–1279 AD)

• However, Guy Maccoy (1933) is the father of the Serigraphic Process that is more commonly used today.

Did you know that Disney’s 101 Dalmatians would not have been possibly without the Xerox machine.

Or “electrophotography” (1938) – Invented by: Chester Carlton

Invention of the Pixel

• Inventor of the Square Pixel, Russell A. Kirsch in 1957, when he and a team developed the first digital image scanner

Inkjet Printer• The technology was first extensively

developed in the early 1950s and starting in the late 1970s commercially available inkjet printers that could reproduce digital images generated by computers were developed, mainly by Epson, Hewlett-Packard (HP), and Canon

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Summary of Printing

Present/Future

• 3D Printing – Being able to translate a digital image into a three-dimensional form.