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All'Expo di Parigi vengono presentati gli embrioni dei primi film colorati e sonori
A Barcellona il Parco Guell segna il trionfo dell'architettura di Gaudì
Gli artisti della Secessione Viennese creano il poster

 

Embryonic color and sound films shown at Paris Exposition
Guell Park was a triumph of Gaudi's archiecture in Barcelona
Artists of Vienna Secession group create posters

Frank Lloyd Wright pubblica 'The Art and Craft of the Machine'
'Mediterranean' di A. Maillol esprime il classicismo in scultura


Frank Lloyd Wright publishes 'The Art and Craft of the Machine'
Maillol's 'Mediterranean' expresses classicism in sculpture

Viaggio sulla luna' di Meliès
A Los Angeles apre l'electric Theatre di Tally
Alfred Stieglitz fonda il gruppo Photo-Secession
La mostra di arti decorative a Torino conclude la fase floreale dell'Art Nouveau

 

Melies's 'Voyage to the Moon' film
Tally's Electric Theatre opens in Los Angeles
Alfred Steiglitz founds the Photo-Secession Group
Exhibition of Decorative Arts in Turin ends floral phase of Art Nouveau

Morris Benton disegna il carattere Franklin Gothic
Picasso si trasferisce a Parigi da Barcellona
Charles Mackintosh termina la Willow Tea Rooms (sala da the) il massimo raggiungimento dell'eleganza of Art Nouveau
il fotografo Walker Evans nasce a St. Louis
Muore Paul Gauguin
L'architetto Otto Wagner disegna la Post Office Savings Bank aVienna
Richard Steiff disegna il primo orsetto teddy, come President Roosevent

 


Morris Benton designs Franklin Gothic types
Picasso establishes his studio in Paris
Charles Mackintosh completes Willow Tea Rooms at height of Art Nouveau elegance
Photographer Walker Evans born in St. Louis
Paul Gauguin dies
Architect Otto Wagner designs Post Office Savings Bank in Vienna
Richard Steiff designs first teddy bears, after President Roosevent

Charles Dana Gibson crea illustrazioni nello stile Art Nouveau
Nasce la litografia offset
Salvador Dali nasce
Muore Eadweard Muybridge
Nasce Russel Wright a Lebanon, Ohio
Il fotografo di moda Cecil Beaton Nasce a Londra
Lo scultore Isamu Noguchi nasce a Los Angeles
Ernst A. Batchelder pubblica il libro "I principi del design"
Frederick Goudy pubblica Arts & Crafts, "Dissertation Upon a Roast Pig"

 

Charles Dana Gibson illustrates in Art Nouveau style
Offset lithography invented
Salvador Dali born
Eadweard Muybridge dies
Russel Wright born in Lebanon, Ohio
Fashion photographer Cecil Beaton born in London
Sculptor Isamu Noguchi born in Los Angeles
Ernst A. Batchelder publishes text book "The Principles of Design"
Frederick Goudy publishes Arts & Crafts book, "Dissertation Upon a Roast Pig"

Steiglitzgestisce la Gallery 291 a New York
Lucian Bernhard disegna il poster per gli incontri di pugilato di Priester a Berlino
Brodovitch va a Mosca con la famiglia
Ernest Elmo Calkins dichiara "professione" il mestiere del pubblicitario
Cezanne termina il dipinto i "Bagnanti"
Nasce il gruppo espressionista tedesco 'Die Bruke'
Al salone di Parigi i Fauves mostrano la loro violenza di colore
La rivista pubblicitaria "La Publicité" inizia le pubblicazioni
Frank Lloyd Wright disegna lo Unity Temple in Oak Park, Illinois

 

Steiglitz operates Gallery 291 in NY
Lucian Bernhard designs poster for Priester matches in Berlin
Brodovitch moves to Moscow with his family
Ernest Elmo Calkins declares advertising "a profession"
Cezanne completes last 'Bathers' painting
German expressionists group 'Die Bruke' founded
Fauves exhibit of violently colored art at Paris Salon
French advertising magazine La Publicite begins publishing
Frank Lloyd Wright designs Unity Temple in Oak Park, Illinois

L'art nouveau ungherese viene mostrata per la prima volta alla Esposizione di Milano
Gyorgy Kepes nasce a Selyp, ungheria
Klimt dipinge il ritratto di 'Frau Fritza Riedler'
Lo Unity Temple in Oak Park di Frank Lloyd Wright's viene completato
Henri Matisse termina il dipinto "La Joi de Vivre"
Muore Paul Cezanne
Amedeo Modigliani si trasferisce a Parigi
Matisse viaggia in Africa

 

 

Hungarian art nouveau shown at Milan Exhibition
Gyorgy Kepes born in Selyp, Hungary
Klimt paints portrait of 'Frau Fritza Riedler'
Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple in Oak Park IL constructed
Henri Matisse completes La Joi de Vivre painting
Paul Cezanne dies
Amedeo Modigliani moves to Paris
Matisse visits Africa

Picasso e Braque inventano il Cubism
Prima mostra cubista a Parigi
Steiglitz apre Little Galleries della Photo-Secession nella 291 Fifth Avenue
Herman Multhesius fonda a Monaco di Baviera la Deutcher Werkbund
Viene esposto il dipinto'Blue Mountain' Wassily Kandinsky si avvia all'astrattismo
Nasce Ray Eames
Picasso dipinge Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Herbert Matter nasce in Svizzera
Nasce Charles Eames

 

Picasso and Braque invent Cubism
First Cubist exhibition in Paris
Steiglitz opens Little Galleries of Photo-Secession at 291 Fifth Avenue
Deutcher Werkbund founded in Munich by Herman Multhesius
Painting 'Blue Mountain' shows Wassily Kandinsky on way to pure abstraction
Ray Eames born Les Demoiselles d'Avignon by Picasso signals beginning of Cubism
Herbert Matter born in Switzerland
Luibov Popopa studies with Impressionist painter Stanlslav Zhukovski
Charles Eames born

Peter Behrens designs trademark for AEG
George Guisti born
Futurism begins in Italy
Frank Lloyd Wright designs famous prairie-style Robie House in Chicago
Steiglitz gives Matisse his first exhibition in America at "291"
Ludwig Hohlwein designs Confection Kehl
Will Burtin born in Cologne, Germany
Ashcan School of realistic painters formed in New York City
Erik Nitsche born
F.T. Marinetti's "Futurist Manifesto" published in Paris newspaper
Frank Lloyd Wright designs the Robie House
Peter Behrens office includes Miies van der Rohe, Gropius, and later Le Corbusier
Howard Pyle illustrates The Book of Pirates
Cubism first appears with Picasso's 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'
Diaghilev presents the Ballets Russe in Paris
Matisse paints The Dance
Magazine publisher Conde Nast acquires 'Vogue'
L. and J.G. Stickley market mantel clock as part of Mission Oak Collection
Plakatstil artist Ludwig Hohlwein "Marco Polo Tee" poster
Will Bradley restyles Century magazine
Leo Lionni born in Amsterdam, Netherlands of Dutch parents
Sonia and Robert Delaunay married in Paris
English critic Roger Fry coins term 'Post-Impressionism'
Emil Nolde paints 'Dance Around the Golden Calf'
N.W. Ayer advertising agency first uses art directors
Gestalt psychologists formulate principles of perceptual organization in Germany
Arthur Dove makes first abstract paintings
Scupltor Constantin Brancusi begins his 'Sleeping Muse' series
First commercial neon sign in Paris
Steiglitz first shows abstract paintings by Americans at "291"
Wassily Kandinsky paints first abstract painting
Great Islamic exhibit impresses Matisse
French Art Deco
Birth of Kasimir Malevitch's Suprematism
Publisher Cyrus Curtis invents modern "market research"
Exhibit of German design at Newark Museum, NJ
Braque invents collage
Futurist artist Umberto Boccioni paints 'The City Rises'
George Braque's painting 'Man with a Guitar', exemplary example of analytical cubism
Bradbury Thompson born
William Golden born
Egon Schiele paints "The Self Seers"
German expresionist painter Franz Marc paints 'Blue Horses'
Cipe Pineles born
Munich expressionist artists form Der Blaue Reiter
Wertheimer publishes Gestalt Perceptual theory in Frankfurt
Vladimir Mayakovsky "christened" a poet by David Burliuk
Liubov Popova studies in Paris and travels extensively in Europe
Picasso creates "Still-Life with Caning," one of the first collages
24 sheet billboard poster becomes a standard
Marcel Duchamp's painting 'Nude Descending A Staircase' causes uproar in Paris
Jan Tschichold born
Cass Gilbert designs Woolworth Building in New York City
Futurist opera "Victory over the Sun" produced in St. Petersburg
America introduced to modern art at Armory Show in NY
Giovanni Papini's 'Lacerba' introduces free typography in Italy
Tatlin, Malevich and Lissitzky produce Constructivist work in Russia
Vorticist movement founded in England by Wyndham Lewis
Marcel Duchamp's sculpture 'Bicycle Wheel' leads to Dada and Surrealism
American Institute of Graphic Arts founded in New York
Francis Thibaudeau invents the asymmetric 'Typographie de groupes'
Brodovitch runs away from home to join Russian army
French Army uses Braque's cubist principles for camouflage
Henry Bacon designs the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC
Vorticism named by Ezra Pound
Painter Raymond Duchamp-Villon produces Cubist sculpture 'With his Horse'
F.H.K. Henrion born in Nuremburg, Germany
Alexander Rodchenko meets Vavaro Stepanova
Kandinsky's painting 'Autumn' foreshadows Abstract Expressionism 30 years later
London Transport symbol designed
Kandinsky publishes "Concerning the Spiritual in Art"
Paul Rand born
Edna Woolman Chase becomes editor of 'Vogue' magazine
Eugenia Errazuriz shocks Paris with minimal aesthetic of interior design
Roycrifters Press publishes "Philistine Journal" with strong Arts & Crafts message
Duchamp makes first Dada paintings
Brodovitch joins cavalry and fights in Romania
Giorgio de Chirico paints metaphysical 'The Duo'
Japanese designer Yusaku Kamekura born
Alvin Lustig born
Nihilistic, absurdist movement Dada founded in Zurich
Norman Rockwell illustrates his first cover for Saturday Evening Post magazine
Liubov Popova develops non-objective painting style in Russia
John Hearfield and George Grosz develop photomontage
Dada Manifesto read in Zurich by Tristan Tzara
Jean Arp paints 'Squares Arranged according to the Laws of Chance'
Frank Lloyd Wright designs Imperial Hotel in Tokyo
Malik Verlag printing company begins in Germany
Edward Johnson designs geometric typeface for London Underground
DeStijl begun in Holland by Theo van Doesburg
Van Doesburg designs DeStijl Alphabet
DeStijl Manifesto published
Vilmos Huszar designs masthead for "De Stijl"
Picasso begins designing sets for Diaghilev
L. and J.G. Stickley market Stickley Spindle Arm chair
Marcel Duchamp exhibits common urinal "Fountain," as Art in New York
James Montgomery Flagg designs Uncle Sam "I Want You" poster
Malik Verlag founded by John Heartfield
Hans Arp designs biomorphic abstract relief sculpture
Tristan Tzara begins editing of DADA
Fernand Leger and L'Espirit Moderne
Color theorist Albert Munsell dies
Brodovitch meets wife Nina in Odessa
De Stijl designer Gerrit Rietveld makes famous red and blue armchair
Oswald B. Cooper completes design of typeface 'Cooper'
American artist Grant Wood assigned to develop army camouflage
E. McKnight Kauffer designs Daily Herald poster
Bauhaus founded in Weimar, Germany with Walter Gropius as Director
L'Espirit Nouveau magazine began by Le Corbusier, Ozenfant.
El Lissitzky creates first proun painting
Felix the Cat first appears in silent film 'Feline Follies'
Renoir dies
Amedeo Modigliani paints sensual 'Reclining nude'
Surrealism term coined by Guillaume Appollinaire
Baurat Adolf Meyer lectures with Gropius at the Bauhaus
Kurt Schwitters publishes first "Merz" collages
American Lyonel Feininger does woodcut 'Cathedral' at Bauhaus
Earnest Elmo Calkins calls advertising art a "new art-form"
New York Art Directors Club is founded
Otto Messmer creates cartoon caracter Felix the Cat
Jay Hambidge publishes 'Elements of Dynamic Symmetry'
Expressionism in Germany
Amedeo Modigliani dies
Armin Hofmann born in Winterthur, Switzerland
Inkhuk, the Institute of Artistic Culture, founded by Kandinsky, Popova et al
Opening of Wiene's expressionist film 'The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari'
Tatlin's Monument to Third International unveiled
Kohler, Gestalt Psychologist, describes Isomorphosism
Constructivism founded in Russia by Naum Gabo, Antoine Peusner and Vladimir Tatlin
Liubov Popova paints space-force constructions in Russia
M.F. Agha meets publisher Conde Nast in Berlin
Lalique founds his own glass factory
Brodovitch moves to Paris and designs stage sets for Diaghilev
The Vkhutemas(Higher Technical art Studios) begun in Petrograd
Saul Bass born
Johannes Itten establishes basic course at the Bauhaus
Expressionist typography at the Bauhaus influenced by Itten
At age 31 Albers enters Bauhaus as student
Marcel Breuer joins Bauhaus from Hungary
Herbert Bayer joins studio of architect Margold and learns of Bauhaus
Klee and Kandinsky join Bauhaus faculty
Theo Van Doesburg invited by Walter Gropius to visit the Bauhaus
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy named 'Master of Form' at Bauhaus
Herbert Bayer arrives at Bauhaus as student
Simon Rodia begins work on 'Watts Towers' in Los Angeles
Rodchenko becomes chairman of Inkhuk
Dadaist Man Ray moves to Paris to do photography
El Lissitzky moves to Berlin
Mendelsohn's visionary Einstein Tower built in Potsdam
Alvin Eisenman born
Theo van Doesburg prints line grid for ad in De Stijl magazine
Inkhuk calls for rejection of easel painting in favor of utilitarian design
School of the Art Institute of Chicago begins Department of Printing Arts
Hans Richter produces first abstract film
Surrealist movement begins
W.A. Dwiggins coins term 'graphic design'
Typographer Aaron Burns born
Ladislav Sutnar designs products in glass, porcelain and metal
In Paris Man Ray conducts experimental art using light effects
Moholy-Nagy does first experimental photographs
First advertisement on radio
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper ends publication
Kandinsky joins Bauhaus
Herbert Bayer joins Kandinsky's wall painting workshop at Bauhaus
"New Functional Design" begins in Europe
Aleksei Gan publishes "Constructivist Manifesto" in Russia
Walter Dexel designs first illuminated exterior advertising in Germany
Bauhaus moves to a 'Constructivist' aesthetic
Herbert Bayer meets El Lissitzky and Kurt Schwitters who are visiting the Bauhaus
George Grosz publishes Ecce Homo
A.M. Cassandre posters first appear in Paris
Oskar Schlemmer heads Bauhaus Theatre workshop
El Lissitzky's calls for "the electro-library" over traditional book formats
Frederick Kiesler invited to join De Stijl group as youngest member
First Bauhaus Exhibit draws 15,000 viewers in Weimar
Cranbrook Academy of Art begun in Michigan
Rodchenko starts magazine Novyi lef, using photomontage
First use of neon on signs in United States
LeCorbusier declares "A house is a machine for living"
Piet Zwart begins work with typography
Zwart designs first advertisements for Dutch Cable Works
Hendrik N. Werkman designs first issue of "The Next Call"
Louis Danziger born
Ladislav Sutnar is Professor at Prague's State School of Graphic Arts
Kandinsky's questionnaire on universal correspondence at the Bauhaus
Johannes Itten resigns from Bauhaus faculty under pressure from Gropius
Lazlo Moholy-Nagy becomes director of the Basic Course at the Bauhaus
De Stijl and Constructivism influence Bauhaus typography
Herbert Bayer does sketches on walking trips to Italy and wall murals at Bauhaus
Moholy-Nagy designs Bauhaus prospectus
35mm Leica camera first produced
Surrealism begins in Paris with manifesto by Andre Breton
Gerrit Rietveld builds the Schroeder House in Utrecht
Frederick Kiesler designs stage sets for O'Neill's 'Emperor Jones'
Francis Thibaudeau sets typography classification system in Paris
Erte, French illustrator, designs covers for Harper's Bazaar
Lissitzky and Schwitters produce MERZ
Weimar Bauhaus forced to dissolve
Lissizky and Arp edit THE ISMS OF ART
Piet Zwart begins designing for Nederlandsche Kabelfabriek in Delft
"My Life In Art" written by Constantin Stanislavsky
Felix the Cat changes his shape to circular design
Brodovitch wins Bal Banal poster prize in Paris
Alfred Knopf publishes book of trademarks
Frederick Kiesler designs poster for International Theater Techniques in Vienna
Luibov Popova dies
Albert Kahn designs Glass Plant for Ford Motor Company
Kurt Schwitters founds 'Merz-Werbezentrale'
Herbert Bayer returns to Bauhaus
Leger makes film, 'Ballet Mecanique'
Herbert Bayer Designs Universal Typeface at Bauhaus
AIZ magazine begins publication and reaches circulation of 450,000
Bauhaus opens new premises in Dessau
Peter Behrens completes offices of I.G. Farben Paint Company
J.J.P. Oud designs Cafe de Unie in Rotterdam
Russian "Futurist" Vladimir Mayakovsky visits America
Radio stations take first advertising
Losing government support, Bauhaus moves to Dessau, near Berlin
Walter Gropius designs new headquarters building for the Bauhaus in Dessau
At the Bauhaus Josef Albers designs alphabet based on 3 primary shapes
Former students, H. Bayer and J. Schmidt join faculty at Bauhaus
Bauhaus institutes new course in 'Typography and Advertising Art'
Monet completes two huge mural cycles of water lilies at Giverny
Art Deco shown at Exposition des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Moderne in Paris
Hunter and August invent photographic type composing machine in London
Citroen lights up its name on the Eiffel Tower in Paris
General Motors employs visual stylist Harley Earl
Burma Shave signs introduced on roads in United States
Brodovitch wins five medals at Paris Exposition
Lazlo Moholy-Nagy introduces word 'Typophoto'
Robert Michel joins group 'Das Neue Frankfurt'
Exhibits from Paris Exposition shown in New York department stores
Soviet filmmaker Eisenstein makes 'Battleship Potemkin'
Silversmith Jean Puiforcat forms group "Five Modern Artists" in Paris
El Lissitzky champions the book as "the most monumental work of art"
Claude Monet dies
Ralph Walker's Barclay Vesey Telephone Building in New York
"Cahiers d'Art' magazine begins
Le Corbusier builds 40 austere, modern houses at Pessac, near Bordeaux
Abstract Surrealist painter Joan Miro creates 'Dog barking at the moon'
Bauhaus poster for Kandinsky exhibit designed by Herbert Bayer
Frederick Kiesler arrives in USA
Willi Baumeister's article "Neue Typographie" appears in Die Form
Herbert Bayer writes articles on basic design for Bauhaus magazine
Society of Typographic Arts founded in Chicago
Brodovitch decorates Prunier restaurant in Paris
Frederick Kiesler calls for 'telemuseum' in New York
Weissenhof Siedlung built in Stuttgart
AM Cassandre designs 'l'Etoile du Nord' poster in Paris
Dymaxion house designed by Buckminster Fuller
Film Napoleon by Abel Gance opens
Bauhaus in Dessau opens
Herbert Bayer designs cover for January issue of Bauhaus magazeine
Le Corbusier publishes Vers une Architecture
Karl Teige writes essay 'Modern Type' which sets tenets of the New Typography
'International Style' born at Deutscher Werkbund exposition
Will Burtin studies at Kolner Werkschule
Robert Mallet-Stevens designs white cubist houses in Paris
Schwitters founds radical typographic group the 'ring neuer werbegestalter'
Tschichold writes 'Die Neue Typographie'
Le Corbusier designs Villa Savoye
Frederick Kiesler designs Film Guild Cinema poster
First use of electric billboard at Times Square in New York
Paul Renner designs typeface Futura
Brodovitch works for Atelia, design studio of Aux Trois Quartiers
Piet Zwart designs poster for international film festival
Conde Nast invites Dr. M.F. Agha to become Art Director of Vogue
Morris Benton designs typeface Broadway
'Harpist' by Jacques Lipchitz is early Cubist sculpture
Hannes Mayer becomes director
At Bauhaus Josef Albers becomes head of the Basic Course
Bauhaus magazine cover by Herbert Bayer utilizes photomontage
Joost Schmidt heads the Printing Workshop at the Bauhaus
Gropius, Moholy-Nagy, and Breuer leave faculty at the Bauhaus
Walter Peterhans directs new photography department at Bauhaus
International Exhibition of Printing in Cologne, Germany
Pierre Chareau designs neoplastic 'House of Glass' in Paris
Domus magazine begins
Expressionist painter Otto Dix completes tryptich 'The City'
A.M. Cassandre designs billboards for French weekly VU
AUDAC, first industrial design organization, founded
Herbert Bayer leaves Bauhaus to pursue independent career at Dorland Agency
Dali and Bunuel create Surrealist film 'Un Chien Andalou'
Morris Fuller Benton designs 'Parisian' typeface
Dane Carl Dreyer creates early art film 'The Passion of Joan of Arc'
Marcel Breuer designs tubular chair
S.H.DeRoos designs typeface 'Nobel'
Dr. M.F. Agha arrives in USA
Douglas McMurtrie publishes Modern Typography and Layout in Chicago
Mies van der Rohe designs German Pavilion at Barcelona World's Fair
Hugh Ferris publishes The Metropolis of Tomorrow
Frederick Kiesler designs Film Guild Cinema in New York
Bolsheviks denounce Alexander Rodchenko
Museum of Modern Art opens in New York
Gebrauchsgraphik magazine begins publishing
Marshall Fields shows R.Buckminster Fuller's "Dymaxion House"
A.M. Cassandre designs typeface Bifur
Richard Neutra designs Lovell Health House in California
Raymond Loewy designs Gestetner duplicator
L. Sutnar begins as Art Editor for Prague publisher Druzstevni Prace
M.F. Agha immigrates to U.S. at Art Director of Conde Nast Publications
Cahiers d'Art magazine begins in Paris, edited by Christian Zervos
Werner Graff publishes 'Es kommt der neue Fotograf!' in Germany
Bernhard designs 'Bernhard Fashion' typeface
Grant Wood paints American Gothic
Chrysler Building by William Van Alan is triumph of Art Deco
Frederick Kiesler receives certification as architect in New York
Vladimir Mayakovsky commits suicide
Mies van der Rohe becomes director of the Bauhaus
Horst P. Horst arrives in Paris to work for Le Corbusier
Epstein©ˆs sculpture 'Genesis' creates controversy in Britain
Brodovitch teaches at Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Design
First working phototypesetter installed by Waterlow & Sons in England
Horst begins fashion photography for Vogue in France and America
Heinz and Bodo Rasch publish 'Gefesselter Blick' on 20's design
Constantin Brancusi creates sculpture 'Fish'
Massimo Vignelli born in Milan, Italy
Herbert Bayer publishes diagrams suggesting new exhibit techniques
Gropius, Breuer, Moholy-Nagy and Bayer collaborate on Werkbund exhibit
Brodovitch receives first commission from N.W. Ayer agency
Moholy Nagy designs set for Madam Butterfly
Theo Van Doesburg dies and De Stijl movement loses driving force
'The Persistence of Memory' painted by Surrealist Salvador Dali
Matisse draws 'The Dance'
Paul Klee leaves the faculty of the Bauhaus
Nazis view Bauhaus as anti-German and physically destroy it
Museum of Modern Art holds International Style Exhibit
Times New Roman typeface designed by Stanley Morison
Max Bill and The'o Ballmer develop purist, mathematical design approach
Leo Lionni invited by Marineti to join Futurists
Cesar Domela organized exhibit 'Photomontage' in Berlin
'Machine age' style dominates industrial design
"Design for the Machine" Exhibit
Herbert Matter designs Swiss Tourism posters
Publication of The International Style by Hitchcock and Johnson
Dessau government dissolves Bauhaus
Mies van der Rohe transfers Bauhaus to Berlin
Faculty members Albers and Kandinsky remain at Bauhaus until end
Stanley Morison restyles London Times, introducing type Times New Roman
Russel Wright designs modern table radio for Wurlitzer
Aalto designs biomorphic plywood curved chair
Gerhard Maria Hoptop designs Surrealist ad for insurance company
Donald Deskey designs interior of Radio City Music Hall in Art Deco
Man Ray applies Surrealism to poster for London Underground
AM Cassandre designs Dubonnet poster
Norman Bel Geddes writes Horizons
Term 'International Style' coined for architecture exhibit at Museum of Modern Art
Gustav B. Jensen designs Golden Blossom Honey Jar
Alexander Liberman works for Lucien Vogel on Vu magazine in Paris
Schwitters lecture heralds beginning of corporate identity design
In Russia Stalin disbands Constructivist movement as "dangerously subversive"
Paul Schuitema designs postage stamps for the Dutch PTT
Hans Richter goes to Russia
American Art Deco defined by Donald Deskey
Picasso designs cover for first Surrealist periodical Minotaure
Kandinsky moves to Paris
Brodovitch holds first "Design Laboratory" for students in Philadelphia
Charles Coiner designs Blue Eagle symbol for National Recovery Act
Albers arrives in USA to teach at Black Mountain College
Hans Hoffman opens school in New York
Deutscher Werkbund ends in Germany
First issue of 'Minotaure' has Surrealist cover by Picasso
Louis Comfort Tiffany dies
Kurt Schwitters declared a 'degenerate artist' by Nazis
Jan Tschichold flees from Nazis to Switzerland
New Deal Arts programs begun by U.S. Government
Max Burchartz dismissed by the Nazis
F.H.K. Henrion trained as textile designer in Paris
Black Mountain College opens in North Carolina
Berlin Bauhaus closes
Rudolph Arnheim publishes 'Film as Art'
Brodovitch becomes Art Director at Harper's Bazaar
Kem Weber designs 'Airline' armchair
Walter Paepcke hires Egbert Jacobson as Art Director at CCA
First modern graphics used in CCA advertising
Xanti Shawinsky designs Surrealist poster for Coty cosmetics
Chrysler Airflow car
Kem Weber designs 'Zephyr' digital clock
Op artist Victor Vasarely begins his series 'Zebras'
Frederick Kiesler designs facade for Jay's Shoes in Buffalo
Richard Neutra designs Ayn Rand house in California
P.M. magazine begun by Dr. Robert Leslie
Machine Art Exhibit at Museum of Modern Art in New York
F.H.K. Henrion trained as poster designer at Atelier Colin in Paris
Brodovitch is Art Director at Harper's Bazaar magazine
Gertrude Stein returns to USA for lecture tour after 31 year absence
Pioneering fine art photographer Gertrude Kasebier dies
'Typographische Gestaltung' by Tschichold
Russel Wright designs 'Modern Living' line of furniture
Ben Nicholson and wife Barbara Hepworth innovate abstract sculpture in Britain
Spartan Company introduces "Bluebird" art deco radio
Ansel Adams wins acclaim with his book 'Making a Photograph'
Raymond Loewy©ˆs 'Coldspot' refridgerator first sold
Government©ˆs Treasury Art Project (TAP) includes Pollack and de Kooning
Herbert Bayer designs Surrealist ad for Adrianol Emulsion
Kasimir Malevich dies
Herbert Matter designs posters for Swiss resorts and travel
Edward Johnston designs for London Underground
Bauhaus graduate Xanti Schwawinsky designs poster for Olivetti in Italy
Posters shown at MoMA's 'Posters by Cassandre' exhibit
Frederick Kiesler receives US citizenship
Aalto designs biomorphic "rippled glass" vase
Vanity Fair magazine ends publication
Life magazine begins new era for photographers
Frank Lloyd Wright designs Kaufmann house 'Fallingwater' at Bear Run PA
Herbert Matter emigrates to United States
Alexander Korda's production of HG Wells "Things to Come"
Alfred Barr publishes Cubism and Abstract Art
Penguin Books founded by Allen Lane
Meret Oppenheim creates Surrealist 'Object' (fur lined cup and saucer)
Ben Shahn designs posters with strong political and social themes
Edward Ronthaler establishes photographic typesetting firm
Olivetti hires Giovanni Pintori to design products and corporate identity
Walter Dorwin Teague designs the "A" filling station for Texaco
Salvador Dali creates his 'Lobster Telephone'
Egbert Jacobson hired as design director at Container Corp. of America
John Heartfield produces anti-Nazi issues of "AIZ"
Herbert Bayer writes "A Contribution to Book Typography"
Robert Hunter Middleton designs Bodoni-inspired 'Modern 735' typeface
Franklin Institute in Pittsburgh exhibits outdoor advertising posters
AM Cassandre designs the Ford billboard in New York
New Bauhaus begun in Chicago by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Exhibition of "Degenerate Art" held by Nazi Party in Munich
Picasso paints 'Guernica' in response to Spanish Civil War tragedy
Loewy restyles cream separator
La Grande Illusion directed by Jean Renoir
Architects Costo and Niemeyer design first 'modern' building in South America
Frederick Kiesler works on his 'vision machine' investigation
Look magazine begins publication
E. McKnight Kauffer designs posters for London Underground Railways
AM Cassandre designs Peignot typeface
Container Corporation begins ad campaign by using A.M. Cassandre
Walter Gropius emigrates to the United States
Gropius and Breuer teach at Harvard
Herbert Bayer visits United States
Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques held in Paris
Sutnar designs Czech pavilion at Paris Exhibition
Typeface Bell Gothic introduced by Mergenthaler Linotype for telephone books
Posters by E. McKnight Kauffer exhibited at Museum of Modern Art
Russel Wright designs "American Modern" tableware
Ladislav Sutnar designs pavilion for Czechoslovakia at NY World's Fair
New York World's Fair
Typeface Caledonia designed by William Addison Dwiggins
John Heartfield flees Czechoslovakia to London
Brodovitch wins third prize in MOMA's Knockdown Furniture competition
AIZ (Arbeiter-Illustriert-Zeitung) magazine ceases publication
Badio-Vilato designs Surrealist poster about Spanish Civil War
Film 'Andalusian Dog' shown at International Surrealist Exhibition in Paris
Mies van der Rohe assumes directorship of Armour Institute in Chicago
Raymond Loewy begins working with Studebaker Company
'Picture Post' begins
Three Brancusi abstract sculptures installed in Tirgu Jui Park, Romania
AM Cassandre designs poster for Dole Pineapple Juice
Museum of Modern Art mounts exhibit 'Bauhaus 1919-1928'
"Bauhaus 1919-1928" exhibit brings avant-garde ideas to United States public
Herbert Bayer emigrates to the United States
Serge Eisenstein makes film 'Alexander Nevsky'
Joseph Binder designs poster for New York World's Fair
Georg Trump designs typeface 'Schadow'
In Chicago Gyorgy Kepes designs cover for "More Business" magazine
Bradbury Thompson designs first Westvaco Inspiration magazine
Charles Coiner designs citizens defense symbol system
Horst P. Horst photographs controversial 'The Mainbocher Corset' for Conde Nast
Leo Lionni emigrates to United States, works for N.W. Ayer & Son
"Bauhaus: 1918-1928" exhibit at Museum of Modern Art
Joseph Binder designs poster for New York World's Fair
Rene Magritte paints illusionistic 'Time Transfixed'
Lazlo Moholy-Nagy begins the School of Design in Chicago
Nazi aggression in Czechoslovakia ends Devetsil group activities
Issue of P.M. magazine devoted to three Herbert Bayer articles on design
Illustrator Ludwig Bemelmans creates children's book 'Madeline'
Gyorgy Kepes designs booklet for Container Corporation of America
Museum of Non-Objective Painting opens in New York
Alvin Lustig designs New Directions book jackets
At New York World's Fair, Jean Carlu paints mural at French Pavillion
Eames and Saarinen molded plywood furniture first shown at MOMA exhibit
'Jugend' magazine ends publication
Fred Hauck designs format for Newsday
Konrad Bauer writes "Adventur and Kunst"
Paul Klee paints Death and Fire
Australian painter Sidney Nolan creates controversy with painting Boy and the Moon'
F.H.K. Henrion designs posters for UK Ministry of Information
Herbert Bayer teaches design course in New York sponsored by Advertising Guild
500th Anniversary of Gutenberg's invention of movable type
Alex Steinweiss designs covers for Modern Packaging magazine
Egbert Jacobson works on Color Harmony Manual at Container Corp. of America
Jean Carlu's poster "America's Answer: Production" is distributed
Smoking Camel cigarette sign introduced on Times Square in New York
Alexander Liberman arrives in New York and works at Vogue magazine
Royal Dadmun designs International Harvester mark at Raymond Loewy
DU magazine begins
Siegfried Giedion publishes book 'Space ,Time and Architecture'
Painter Paul Nash completes 'Totes Meer' (Dead Sea)
Lucky Strike cigarette package designed by Loewy
George Krikorian designs series of ads for New York Times
Will Burtin designs issue of AD magazine with insert of 10 years of his work
Kepes teaches camouflage course at New Bauhaus in Chicago
Frederick Kiesler designs installation for Surrealist Gallery 'Art of This Century'
Graphis magazine begun by Walter Herdeg
Horst P. Horst photographs brooding Marlene Dietrich
Frederick Kiesler designs biomorphic rocker and oak chair
Eames designs Arts & Architecture covers
American artist Edward Hopper paints 'Nighthawks'
Federal Art Project employs 3500 artists
Herbert Bayer designs "Road to Victory" exhibit at MoMA
Magazine publisher Conde Nast dies
Alexander LIberman joins Conde Nast Publications
'Advance Guard of Advertising Artists' exhibit at The A-D Gallery in NY
Gyorgy Kepes designs book 'Paperboard goes to war' for Container Corporation
Mondrian paints "Broadway Boogie Woogie"
Frederick Kiesler designs Surrealist typography layout for Vogue article
Norman Bel Geddes works on camoflage project for US government
First one-man show by artist Jackson Pollock
Willem Sandberg works on "experimenta typographica"
Alexander Calder exhibits his sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art
First Irving Penn photograph appears on Vogue magazine cover
Herbert Bayer designs exhibit 'Airways to Peace' for MoMA
Filmmaker Maya Deren makes 'Meshes of the Afternoon'
Paul Rand designs ads for Dubonnet wine and Coronet brandy
Gyorgy Kepes writes 'Language of Vision'
Picasso creates 'Man with a Sheep', his most famous sculpture
Wassily Kandinsky dies
'Simplicissimus' magazine ends publication
Francis Bacon paints tryptych Figures at the Base of a Cross
Raymond Loewy begin corporate identity for International Harvester Company
School of Design merges with IIT in Chicago
Art by Georgia O'Keeffe appears on cover of "View" magazine
Noguchi designs biomorphic black chess table
Fernand Leger designs cover for "View" magazine
Herbert Bayer meets Walter Paepcke of Container Corporation of America
J. Walter Thompson Agency hires Herbert Bayer as consultant art director
'Type Talks' publication introduced by American Typographers Association
J.J. Augustin Publishers release Ballet book by Brodovitch
Earl S. Tupper's plastic ware available on market
Alvin Lustig teaches at Black Mountain College in North Carolina
"Power of the Pacific" photography exhibit at MoMA
Eva Zeisel designs biomorphic "Town and Country" dinnerware
Will Burtin becomes art director at Fortune magazine
PRINT magazine features article on Bauhaus importance to design education
Charles Eames produces shaped plywood chair
Gropius founds The Architects Collaborative (TAC)
Aalto designs biomorphic stool
Germaine Richier completes shocking sculpture 'The bat-man'
George Nelson become director of design at Herman Miller Company
First phototype composition by Intertype
Armin Hofmann begins teaching at Basel School of Arts & Crafts
Charles and Ray Eames begin association with Herman Miller Inc.
Hans and Florence Knoll founds Knoll Associates
Herbert Matter begins designing for Knoll Associates
Leo Lionni teaches design at Black Mountain College in North Carolina
Museum of Modern Art in New York shows Eames chair designs
Paul Rand writes 'Thoughts on Design'
Isamu Noguchi designs cover for "View" magazine
Herbert Bayer moves from New York to Aspen, Colorado
Alvin Lustig designs cover for Fortune magazine
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy writes 'Vision in Motion'
George Nelson designs wall clock
Frederick Kiesler designs Salles de Superstition in Paris
Malik Verlag printing company closes in Germany
Marseille Apartment Block built by Le Corbusier
'Man Pointing' sculpted by Alberto Giacometti
Noguchi designs biomorphic table for Herman Miller
Silas Rhodes founds School of Visual Arts in New York
Architect Richard Neutra completes Kauffmann Desert House in California
Pierre Bonnard dies
Henri Cartier-Bresson has one-man show at Museum of Modern Art
Jan Tschichold designs Penguin books
Armin Hofmann and Emil Ruder begin teaching at School of Design in Basel
Alex Steinweiss has exhibition 'Visual Communication Techniques' at A-D Gallery
Andrew Wyeth paints 'Christina's World'
Eduardo Paolozzi does early Pop art collages
Alvin Lustig has exhibit of his work at A.D. Gallery in New York
Charles Eames designs biomorphic chaise and fiberglass rocking chair
American Color-Field painter Barnett Newman creates 'Ornament 1'
Architect Pietro Belluschi designs the Equitable building in Portland, Oregon
Mass production of plastic goods, using new molding techniques
Kiesler designs set for Stavinsky's oratorio Oedipus Rex
Architect Eero Saarinen designs General Motors Technical Center in Michigan
Massimo Vignelli studies at Liceo Artistico di Breara in Milan, Italy
Ben Rose shows his photographs at A-D Gallery in New York
Brodovitch designs first issue of Portfolio magazine
Photon markets first phototypesetting machine
Charles Eames designs modular storage system using industrial parts
Philip Johnson designs glass house in New Canaan, CT
Ladislav Sutnar and Buckminster Fuller produce 'Transportation' book
Frederick Kiesler lectures at Institute of Design in Chicago
Doyle Dane Bernbach advertising agency founded
Fulvio Bianconi designs biomorphic glass handkerchief-like vase
Hal Zamboni exhibits his graphic work at A-D Gallery in New York
Leo Lionni art director at Fortune magazine & design director for Olivetti
Charles Eames designs Case Study house in California
Alvin Lustig exhibits his work at A-D Gallery in New York
Time magazine article on Raymond Lowey
Will Burtin has exhibit of his work at A-D Gallery in New York
Grand opening of Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum in New York
Alliance Graphique Internationale founded
Thomas Watson Jr. of IBM asks Eliot Noyes to redesign his office and others
Museum of Modern Art has first "Good Design" exhibition
United Nations Secretariat building completed
'Hunting' chair by Borge Hogensen
Alvin Eisenman appointed lecturer at Yale School of Fine Arts
Container Corporation begins "Great Ideas of Western Man" ad series
HFG Ulm founded and headed by Max Bill
Carlo Mollino designs biomorphic see-through table
Frederick Kiesler begins lecturing at Yale University
Walter Paepcke conceives CCA's "Great Ideas of Western Man" ads
Focus of art world shifts from Paris to New York
Jackson Pollock paints 'Number 27'
John Heartfield returns to Germany from England
Jean Cocteau produces film 'Orpheus'
Morton Goldsholl exhibits at A-D Gallery in New York
Alexander Nesbitt publishes "Lettering Art"
Introduction of CBS Eye symbol, designed by William Golden
Brodovitch designs Portfolio magazine
Walter Paepcke and Egbert Jacobson found first Aspen design Conference
Alvin Lustig teaches at Yale
Marianne Straub creates concentric 'Surrey' fabric design
FHK Henrion designs pavilion for Festival of Britain
Braun introduces 550 shaver
Rat fur Formgebung established in Germany
Kurosawa creates film 'Rashomon'
Wire' chair by Harry Bertoia
Japanese Industrial Designers' Association formed
Prospectus written for The Hochschule fur Gestaltung in Ulm, Germany
Leo Lionni designs Olivetti exhibition at Museum of Modern Art in New York
Stanley Meston designs Golden Arches signage for McDonald's
Alvin Lustig collaborates with Victor Gruen on Northland signage project
Wire chair designed by Harry Bertoia
First assemby of Alliance Graphique Internationale in London
First production of Charles and Ray Eames' House of Cards game
Leo Lionni teaches at Yale
Museum of Non-Objective Painting changes name to Guggenheim Museum
Allen Hurlburt is Art Director at LOOK magazine
Leo Lionni chairs International Design Conference in Aspen
Frederick Kiesler completes sculpture 'Galaxy' for Philip Johnson's garden
First issue of Playboy magazine
Herbert Matter teaches at Yale
Herbert Bayer designs World Geo-Graphic Atlas
Raoul Dufy dies
Push Pin Almanac first published
Herbert Bayer designs World Geo-Graphic Atlas for CCA
'Stile Industria' launched in Italy
Vicke Lindstrand designs biomorphic black vase
Brodovitch is guest critic at Yale School of Art
Construction begins at The Hochschule fur Gestaltung in Ulm
Picasso begins work on "Picasso and the Human Comedy" suite of drawings
Henry Wolf becomes Art Director at Esquire magazine
Push Pin Studios founded by Glaser, Sorel, Chwast and Ruffins
Exhibition 'Four American Graphic Designers' at Museum of Modern Art
Henri Matisse dies
Poland magazine begins
Simon Rodia completes work on Watts Towers in Los Angeles
Andre Derain dies
Hermann Zapf publishes Manuale Typographicum
E. McKnight Kauffer dies
Milan Triennale Brodovitch teaches at Yale
Adrian Frutiger designs Univers typefaces
Josef Albers teaches at The Hochschule fur Gestaltung in Ulm, Germany
Eliot Noyes designs Bubble prefab housing
First Issue of Industrial Design magazine
Buckminster Fuller patents geodesic dome
Saul Bass designs poster and titles for film "Man With the Golden Arm"
Steichen's Family of Man exhibit at MoMA
Leo Lionni president of American Institute of Graphic Arts
Josef Muller-Brockmann designs safety posters
Official opening and dedication of The Hochschule fur Gestaltung in Ulm, Germany
Alvin Lustig dies
Picasso celebrates 75 birthday with exhibitions of his work
Maurice Utrillo dies
Ivan Chermayeff graduated from Yale
"Ergonomics" hailed by Henry Dreyfus in book, Designing for People
Fernand Leger dies
Eliot Noyes asked to become Consultant Director of Design at IBM
Charles Eames designs lounge chair for Herman Miller
Paul Rand teaches at Yale
Noyes asks Eero Saarinen to design buidlings for IBM
Design Centre opens in United Kingdom
Saarinen designs 151 "tulip" chair
Eliot Noyes asks Paul Rand to design new identity for IBM
Wright©ˆs Guggenheim Museum opens in New York
British artists Hockney, Hamilton, and Blake begin 'Op art' in Britain
American artists Warhol, Lichtenstein, and Rauschenberg begin 'Op art'
Sydney, Australia Opera house design by Danish architect Joern Utzon
Bradbury Thompson begins teaching at Yale
Constantin Brancusi dies
Armin Hofmann teaches at Yale
Black Mountain College closes
Milan Triennale
Frederick Kiesler begins work on 'The Shrine of the Book' in Israel
Typeface Helvetica designed by Max Meidinger and Edouard Hofmann
Brownjohn, Chermayeff and Geismar design firm established in New York
Marcello Nizzoli designs sewing machine for Mirella
Collier's magazine ends publication
Ettore Sottsass creates ceramics with exaggerated geometric forms
Construction begun on Sydney Opera House
Seagram building by Mies van der Rohe
Noyes collaborates on design for IBM's RAMAC computer
Frantisek Kupka dies
Jay Doblin heads IIT Design program
Otto Storch redesigns McCall's magazine
Neue Grafik by Josef Muller-Brockmann heralds Swiss International style
Will Burtin designs Cell exhibit for Upjohn
Charles Eames and R. Buckminster Fuller visit The Hochschule fur Gestaltung
Maurice de Vlaminck dies
Jasper Johns paints 'Alley Oop'
Eliot Noyes and Gordon Smith present new IBM at Brussels World Fair
Hermann Zapf designs Optima typeface
Fire at Museum of Modern Art destroys Monet 'Water Lilies' painting
Communication Arts magazine first published
Alexander Calder creates kinetic sculpture 'Mobile'
Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson complete Seagram building
George Rouault dies
' Egg' chair designed by Arne Jacobson
Eero Saarinen designs TWA terminal at Idlewild in New York
Westvaco publishes first copy of "Westvaco Classics Books"
Frank Lloyd Wright designs Phillips 66 gas station in Cloquet, MN
Rand, Noyes, Matter and Eames collaborate on Westinghouse identity
Richard Coyne publishes Communication Arts magazine
Typography USA forum sponsored by ICTA, NY
Willy Fleckhaus designs Twen magazine
F.H.K. Henrion designs corporate identity for KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
Frank Lloyd Wright dies
Brodovitch designs book Observations with Truman Capote and Richard Avedon
Frederick Kiesler designs 'Endless House'
Letraset begins marketing rub-off lettering
Wright's Guggenheim Museum opens in New York
Journal New Graphic Design from Zurich presents Swiss design
The Typography of Order written by Emil Ruder
William Golden dies
Pop art
Volkswagen ad campaign
Leo Lionni designs first childrens book, Little Blue and Little Yellow
Pentel introduced as first felt tip pen
Yves St. Laurent introduces "Beatnik" look in new apparel designs
Chermayeff designs Chase symbol
Marc Chagall creates windows for medical center in Jerusalem
Book Moments Preserved by Irving Penn release
Aldo van Eyck designs brutalist structure for Amsterdam orphanage
Alvin Eisenman is President of AIGA
Designer Fred Hauck dies
Malcom Grear joins faculty at RISD
Over $11 billion spent in United States on advertising
Venturi and Rausch build Guild House in Philadelphia
Chermayeff & Geismar design identity for Chase Manhattan Bank
Eleven leading designers from Paris exhibit at Gallery 303 in New York
Gene Federico designs at McCalls magazine
Massimo and Lella Vignelli establish Vignelli Design Office in Milan
Editorial art from McCalls magazine shown at Gallery 303, The Composing Room
Frederick Kiesler designs 'The Universal Theater'
Typographica magazine
Archigram started in United Kingdom
Grandma Moses dies at 90
Le Corbusier designs The Convent of Sainte-Marie de la Tourette in France
Charles Eames designs Mathematica exhibition
Architect Maekawa Kunio designs Festival Hall in Tokyo
Noyes designs Selectric typewriter for IBM
Photographer Bill Brandt publishes "Perspective of Nudes" collection
Ted Nelson coins term "Hypermedia"
AIGA presents exhibition "Sutnar: visual design in action"
Aaron Burns publishes book "Typography"
Freeman Craw designs 'Ad Lib' typeface for ATF
George Lois designs Esquire magazine covers
Andy Warhol paints Campbell soup can
Eros magazine produced by Ralph Ginzburg
Roy Lichtenstein causes stir with giant comic-strip paintings
Eero Saarinen designs TWA Terminal at JFK Airport
Charles Eames designs multi-image shows for IBM at NY World's Fair
Andy Warhol paints Marilyn Monroe Diptych
Loewy designs Avanti sportscar for Studebaker
'Arco' light designed by Achilles Courreges
Ed Ruscha paints 'Oof'
Chermayeff & Geismar design identity for Chase Manhattan Bank
'Graphic Design/Japan' exhibit at Rochester Institute of Technology
AM Cassandre designs logotype for Yves Saint-Laurent
Jacques Villon dies
Robert Rauschenberg creates sculpture of goat titled 'Monogram'
Architect Paul Rudolph completes School of Art and Architecture building at Yale
F.H.K. Henrion is President of Alliance Graphique Internationale
Walter Allner becomes art director at Fortune magazine
Roy Lichtenstein paints 'Whoom'
Bridget Riley paints 'Fall'
Ad Reinhardt exhibits in Americans 1963 exhibit at Museum of Modern Art
Pop Art exhibit at Guggenheim shows work by Warhol, Johns, Rauschenberg, etc.
Georges Braque dies
Herbert Bayer designs music tent at Aspen, Colorado
Armin Hofmann designs William Tell poster
Henry Wolf designs Show magazine
Kenneth Hiebert teaches at School of Design Basel
Karl Gerstner writes Designing Programmes
Bridget Riley's Op art
Seymour Chwast designs Artone Studio India Ink carton
First poster museum opens in Warsaw, Poland
American painter Jasper Johns creates ŒPainted Bronze II"
Warsaw International Poster Biennial begins
Andy Warhol creates 'Brillo'
Architect Hugh Casson's Elephant House opens in London
Charles Coiner completes work with Container Corporation account at N.W. Ayer
Chermayeff & Geismar design Mobil identity program
The New York State Theatre is designed by Philip Johnson
Roy Lichtenstein paints 'As I opened Fire'
'Where the Wild Things Are' is published by Maurice Sendak
Vignelli awarded Grand Prix Triennale di Milano for Graphic Design
Will Burtin chairs Vision 65 conference at Southern Illinois University
HfG exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam
Frederick Kiesler dies
"Mondrian" look in apparel introduced by Yves St. Laurent
In Chicago Massimo Vignelli cofounds Unimark International
Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) formed
American sculptor David Smith creates 'Cubi' series
Le Corbusier (Charles-Edourard Jeanneret) dies
F.H.K. Henrion coordinates design for British Pavilion at EXPO 67 in Montreal
"Vernacular Design" stimulated by 'Architecture without Architects' exhibit
"Soft Toilet" piece shown by Claes Oldenburg
Saarinen designs CBS building in New York
Rand designs IBM logotype
'Hammond' chair designed by Poul Kjaerholm
Bell Trimline telephone designed
Dot Zero produced by Unimark
Leo Lionni made honorary member of Society of Typographic Arts, Chicago
Kenneth Hiebert assumes chair of graphic design, Philadelphia College of Art
Brodovitch returns to France, living in Oppede-le Vieux
Otl Aicher in Zurich to design corporate image for Munich Olympic Games
Jean Arp dies
Painter Kenneth Noland uses stained canvas to produce 'Par Transit'
Christopher Pullman graduates from Yale
Robert Venturi writes 'Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture'
Yves St. Laurent introduces "Pop Art" T-shirt dresses inspired by Andy Warhol
Lucas Samaras constructs mirrored room
Painter David Hockney creates 'Peter getting out of Nick©ˆs pool'
Lance Wyman designs graphics for Olympic games in Mexico
Alberto Giacometti dies
'Globe' chair designed by Eero Aarnio
Archizoom established in Italy
Paul Arthur designs signage at Expo 67 in Montreal
Inflatable chair by De Pas, D'Urbino and Lomazzi
Emil Ruder publishes Typography
R. Buckminster Fuller designs geodesic dome U.S. Pavilion at Expo 67
Lubalin designs "No MoreWar" poster
Tomas Moldonado leaves The Hochschule fur Gestaltung in Ulm, Germany
Walker Evans teaches at Yale
Six million of Milton Glaser's Bob Dylan posters are produced
Stardust Casino pylon sign introduced in Las Vegas
FHK Henrion directs design at British pavilion at EXPO Œ67 in Montreal
Design for the Real World published by Victor Papanek
DePas, D'Urbino and Lomazzi design inflatable chair
David Hockney 'A Bigger Splash'
Raymond Loewy designs corporate identity for Shell International
Nam June Paik exhibits video works at Howard Gallery in New York
Herb Lubalin designs 'Avant Garde' magazine
Armin Hofmann designs concrete wall sculpture at Bachmatt School
Kee Van Dongen dies
Mies van der Rohe's 'The Gallery of the Twientieth Century' dedicated in Berlin
Film "Powers of Ten" produced by Charles and Ray Eames
MoMA holds "Word and Image" design exhibit
Brodovitch moves to Le Thor, France
Artist Edward Kienholz creates bizarre work 'Portable war memorial'
AM Cassandre dies
The Hochschule fur Gestaltung in Ulm closed
Marcel Duchamp dies
Advanced Course in graphic design instituted at Basel School of Design
Compugraphic produces Model 2961 photo typesetting machine
Zanotta designs 'Sacco' chair
MIT establishes Center For Advanced Visual Studies
STA sponsors Trademarks USA exhibit in Chicago
Wolfgang Weingart creates intuitive typography in Switzerland
Show 'IBM at Gallery 303' in New York presents work by IBM Display and Design
Charles and Ray Eames produces film "Tops"
Peter Max article featured in LIFE magazine
Bauhaus "50 years" exhibit
Bauhaus book by Hans Wingler
Calder's sculpture 'La Grand Vitesse' installed in Grand Rapids, Michigan
Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe die
R. Buckminster Fuller designs Samuel Beckett theatre at Oxford University
"Sacco" (bean bag) chair designed by Gatti, Paolini and Teodora
SITE architects design Best department stores
Ladislav Sutnar dies
Allen Jones designs 'Fetish' furniture
Herbert Bayer writes "chromatic gate 1969/20" on painting
Ettore Sottsass designs 'Valentine' portable typewriter for Olivetti
                                                           
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