1. A History/Scope of Graphic Design
By Atif Akhtar
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2. Acknowledgement
• Graphic Design’s class first lecture.
• After this students will able to know meaning of
graphic design, a short history, & uses.
• It will help to build students interest in Graphic
design
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3. Graphic design is every where
Simply , we live in the age of graphic design
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4. • A creative process most often involving a client and a
designer, undertaken in order to convey a specific
message to a targeted audience.
• Focuses on visual communication and presentation
• Also known as Visual Communication and
Communication Design
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5. • Goal: create and
combine words,
symbols, and images to
create a visual
representation of ideas
and messages

6. First Signs of Graphic Design
• Graphic Design activities first began in the caves of
Lascaux, Trajan’s Column in Rome, and Illuminated
manuscripts of the Middle Ages
• The term “Graphic Design” first coined by William
Addison Dwiggins in 1922
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8. Chauvet, France
c.35000 B.C – c.30000 B.C.
Crude drawing, limited colour
Lascaux, France
c.17000 B.C
More realistic drawing,
vivid colour

9. Invention of
Writing
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10. The Papyrus of Ani, c.1420 B.C.
Notice the surrounding border and the framing of the illustrations and
related text.
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11. • One main part of Graphic
First Signs of design is printing
• Printing was first invented
Graphic Design in the 6th and 7th centuries
when blocks were cut to
print textiles on and
reproduce Buddhist texts.
• 1450: Johann Gutenberg
invented the printing Press
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12. First Signs of Graphic Design
Beginning of Typography
Johannes Gutenberg 1398 – 1468
Started The "Printing Revolution”
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14. First Signs of Graphic Design
Gutenberg Bible
c.1450 – 1455
Also referred to as the ’forty-two-line Bible’:
• first nine pages – 40 lines
• tenth page – 41 lines
• remainder – 42 lines
210 copies – 180 paper, 30 vellum
When Fust (Gutenberg’s partner) took the
Bibles to France to sell, he was suspected of
witchcraft because of the number and
uniformity of the volumes and had to reveal the
method of production.
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15. Start of Graphic Design Industry
• 1849: Henry Cole • Morris showed that
informed people the there was a market for
importance of graphic graphic design
Design in Great Britain
in his “Journal of Design • His work along with the
and Manufactures” rest of the Private Press
movement directly
• 1891-1896: William influenced the
Morris published “Arts development of graphic
and Crafts Movement” design in the twentieth
and created the first century.
books of stylistic nature
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16. Twentieth Century
• Graphic Designed started
to be used for utilitarian • World War two created a
purposes like buildings, boom for graphic design
theatre sets, posters, for advertising and
fabrics, clothing, packaging
furniture, and logos. • Since these first signs
• 1928: The book “New graphic design has
Typography” by Jan continued to grow into an
Tschichold showed incredibly large money –
readers new types of making industry,
typography
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17. Graphic design is every where
Simply , we live in the age of graphic design
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18.  From Driving a car to flying a Aeroplane.
 Writing a letter Or Solving a Mathmatical
equation.
 Eating a burger Or take a cup of tea.
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19. All the alphabets are consist of different
lines and there crossings.
In a designer’s view it is a zig zag line
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21. • In computing:
– 1950s first GUI computer
– 1970s Alto by Xerox Paulo Alto Research Centre,
not developed further
– 1983 Lisa, by Apple. First personal computer with a GUI.
Replaced by the Macintosh in 1984
– 1985 Windows 1.0
– 1987 Windows 2.0 – a ‘proper’ GUI
– 1990s increased interest within the computer community
in better graphical design of documents
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22. Summary
• Graphical design has been evolving for thousands of
years.
• The Graphic Design profession is young.
• Computer documents and applications use graphical
design principles heavily.
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23. Students will visit Lahore fort & museum.
Every student will make some sketches on their sketch books.
Students will must concern with college liabrary books.
Fundamentals of Graphic Design.
Graphic Design on the Desktop
Other Various books.
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24. From Where Graphic Design activities first began?
Who invent the term “Graphic Design” ?
When Printing was first invented?
Who invented the printing Press?
Explain what role play world war two for graphic design industry?
When first computer invented?
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