Milestones- Which do you consider to be the 10 key developments in the production the technology for Graphic design?

With there being so many important milestones, which have played such significant role in the development of Graphic, design between 3500 BC and 2011, it is difficult to only choose 10. The following milestones in which I have chosen I feel give a broad insight of how the development rapidly changed and adapted throughout the eras.

In 3500 BC, one of the earliest forms of the written language was developed, where Sumerians used cuneiform alphabet on clay tablets, and so created a platform for future of the written language, where cuneiform was soon replaced by the Phoenician alphabet.

In 868, the first printed book was produced, in which was produced in china and was called the diamond sutra.

The art of type soon became more sophisticated and in 1400 Koreans printed with metal to create movable type, this led to printing becoming faster, cheaper and it allowed text to become more creative.

In 1477, William Caxton produced the first printed book in English, and set up a press in London, England in which he introduced the art of printing.

In 1837, the photographic process (the daguerreotype) was invented by Louis Daguerre, which was the first successful completion of the photographic process. It was a very slow process in which was developed by Daguerre and Niepce

 The introduction of colour separation by the use of filters was demonstrated by Clerk Maxwell and as the photographic process was being increasingly developed, soon colour photographs were produced.

Another significant milestone of the production of graphic design was the invention of email by Tommilinson, which allowed the communication of messages to be sent and received almost instantaneously and so a lot faster and cheaper than sending messages by post.

The development of the precursor to mackintosh by Lisa introduced by apple changed the industry for graphic designers.

In 1984, Fujio Masuoka invented Flash memory while working for Toshiba

Adobe in design was launched in 1999, which is another example of how technology is becoming more and more sophisticated and adapting for today’s way of living