Introduction : graphic design & style
Design and sign : the origin of the alphabet, c.34,000-1,100 BC
A classical education : Ancient Greece & Rome, c. 2000BC-c.AD350
Spreading the word : illuminated manuscripts, c.350-c.1500
The black art : the birth of painting & early German printing, c.1455-c.1530
Back to the future : Renaissance Italy & France, c.1460-c.1600
Popular publishing : Dutch Renaissance & popular prints, c.1530-c.1700
Purity in print : Rococo, transitional & modern, c.1700-c.1820
The tools of trade : display types & Victorian design, c.1800-c.1880
Manufacturing the Middle Ages : Neo-Gothic & the arts and crafts, c.1840-c.1910
The style of the street : Art Nouveau, c.1880-c.1914
The simple art of war : Sachplakat & First World War graphics, c.1880-c.1920
The isms of art : Futurism, Dada, De Stijl & Constructivism, c. 1900-c.1930
Form and function : Bauhaus & the new typography, c.1919-c.1933
The weight of tradition : traditional typography, c.1910-c.1947
Good design is good business : commercial Modernism, c.1920-c.1960
Systems and signs : Swiss typography, c.1945-c.1972
Handmade and homespun : illustrated Modernism & Psychedelia, c.1950-c.1970
Tearing it up : punk, c.1975-c.1985
Less is a bore : New Wave & Postmodernism, c.1970-c.1990
Printing with pixels : digital Expressionism & postscript, the digital future, c.1984-.
