Video Game art history Final! Yay!

Video Game Timeline Final by Deshaun Pearson and Christiana Broughton

Chapter 1 Megg's History of graphic design

Stele bearing the code of Hammurabi, which was developed between 1792 and 1750 BCE



Ivory tablet of King Zet, Final dynasty



Cuniform tablet from Umma, c. 2050 BCE.



Cave painting from Lascaux. c. 15,000-10,000 BCE.

-Early human markings found in Africa are over two hundred thousand years old. From the early Paleolithic to the neolithic period (35000 to 40000) early Africans and europeans lefts painting in caves, including lascaux caves in southern France and Altemira spain

-Throughout the world, from africa to North America prehistoric people left numerous petroglyphs, which are carved or scratched signs or simple figures on rock

-Over time picture symbols began to represent the sounds of the objects depicted instead of the objects themselves, these symbols evolved into Cuneiform. Cuniform was later mixed with relief images

-Writing allowed society to stabalize itself under the rule of law, such as the code of Hammurabi

-Egyptians for a long time retained their picture writing system called hieroglyphs .

Final Project Draft: History of Video game art

The draft of the final Shaun Pearson and I are working on, focusing on the development of the art aspects of videogames, we are dividing every ten years by the theme of popular video games that came out around that time. The picture above is the early years of video game history after this section we will start to introduce color coded categories to explain the different influences on video game art.

Chapter 12 Megg's History of Graphic Design

The London Underground, revised by Edward Johnston, 1918



Poster for the Glasgow Institute of the fine arts, 1895



Frank Llyod Wright, First Chapter opening spread for the house beautiful, 1896-97



Gustav Klimt, Poster for the first Vienna Secession exhibition, 1898

-The work of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright was becoming known to European artists and designers and in 1893 wright started his independent practice



-The studio had a strong influence on a group of Scottish artists Charles Rennie Mackintosh, J. Herbert Mcnair, Margret and Frances Macdonald. They were called the four.

-The designs by the four are distinguished by symbolic imagery and stylized form.

-The vienna Secession, with it’s Sezessionstil came into being on 3 April 1897, when the members of the Kunstlerhaus resigned in protest led by Gustav Klimt.

-Artist, Architect, and designer peter behrens change design in the first decade of the new century, he sought typographic reform, was an early advocate for sans-serifs.

-In 1890 the world’s first electric railway system opened In london

Chapter 10 Megg's History of Graphic design

Title page for wren's City churches, Arthur H. Mackmurdo, 1883



The Essex House Press emblem, Charles R. Ashbee, 1902



Title Page from Publius Terentius Afer, William Pickering, 1822



Title page to the Century guild Hobby Horse, Selwyn image, 1884

-The quality of book designs and production declined during the ninteenth century except for works by William Pickering

-William Morris was the leader of the arts and crafts movement, and John Ruskin writer and artist inspired the philosophy of the movement

-Arthur H. Mackmurdo became inspired by Morris’s ideas and accomplishments. Mackmurdo led a group of designers to establish the Century guild.

-The Century guild Hobby Horse began publication in 1884 as the first printed magazine devoted to the visual arts

-Morris named his first typeface Golden based on the venetion faces designed by Nicholas Jenson 1470

-Morris named his enterprise Kelmscott press, it’s first production was the story of the Glittering plain.

-Architect, designer, jewler, and silversmith Charles R. Ashbee founded the guild of Handicraft

Chapter 9 Megg's History of Graphic Design

Joseph Niepce, Photo etching of an engraving of Cardinal Georges D' Amboise, 1827.



The first steam-powered cylinder press, Friedrich Koenig, 1814



Title page from A specimen of Printing Types, William Caslon and William Caslon 2, 1764



Sarah Bernhardt,F.T Nadar, 1859

-William Caslon was said to be the grandfather of the new typeface revolution

-Darius wells experiemnted with hand carved wooden types, in 1827 invented a lateral router that enabled economical mass manufacture of wood types for displaying prints

-Charles Stanhope produced a printing press that was completely out of cast iron

-John walter 2 commisioned Fedrich Koenig to build a double cylinder steampowered press, capable of printing 1,100 impressions an hour

-The rapid development of the linotype replaced thousands of highly skilled hand-type setters while also creating new jobs

-Joseph Niepce the first frenchman who first produced a photographic image, Louis Jacques Daguerre perfeccted the process.

-John Calvin Moss creaded a feasible photoengraving method

-As the victorian era progressed, the ornate and elaborate was a major influence on typography, Chromolithology was a major inspiration.

Typography Graphic

My Typography timeline, I did two different versions of it because I couldn't decide on an overall look I think both of them need to be tweeked in some way so I will edit them later on in the near future.