Graphic design: a concise history

From Graphic Art to Design 1890 to 1914

1. Art Poster

2. Beginnings of Design in Europe

3. War and Propaganda 1914 to the 1920s

Avant-Garde and the Origins of Modernism 1914 to 1940

4. Futurism and Italy

5. Soviet Russia

6. Germany

7. Netherlands

National Tendencies until 1940

8. Switzerland

9. France

10. Britain

Designer and the Art Director

11. United States in the 1930s

12. War and Propaganda 1920s to 1945

13. United States 1945 to the 1960s

Variants of Modernism in Europe

14. Switzerland and Neue Graphik

15. Italy and the Milanese Style

16. France

17. Northern Europe

Psychedelia, Protest and New Techniques

18. Late 1960s

New Waves: Electronic Technology

19. 1970s and 1980s

20. From 1990 to the New Millennium.