A graphic design timeline poster is a type of poster that showcased the transition of designs from the past up to the present. This type of poster usually has dates displayed on them in order to provide answers to the endless historical queries such as when a style or technology was invented or when a designer was born or when he died, when was the influential piece of work was created or even when a movement began.
Furthermore, a graphic design timeline poster offers viewers with the experience of traveling through time. It provides them with an overview of what poster printing was like in the past.
Most graphic design timeline posters are found online and some of them were even created way back from 1820 which is the beginning of the industrial design in Great Britain and Germany. The posters during those times exude decorative extravagance of Victorian designs. The “Art and Craft of the Machine” which comprises the basic principles of modern industrial designs were also developed during those times.
There were also some graphic design timeline posters that showcase the start of the designing profession in the USA starting from 1929 to 1940. Then there were also graphic design posters illustrating the postwar Europe which starts from 1944 to 1968 and then finally the emergence of the Contemporary American Graphic Design which represent the present day graphic designs.
