Talking about early centuries disco typography, cartoon-style iconic images, bell bottoms, neon lettering were on the peak but it was the time of the 1900s when branding and advertising in the form of posters actually came on board and became a form of expression. Posters printed with large wood types were used extensively to advertise new modes of transportation, entertainment, and manufactured goods throughout the 19th century and as a result, typefounders developed larger sizes of types for use on posted announcements and innovated new typefaces including sans serif, slab serif, and decorative designs.

This is the time when the offset lithographic printer was invented in 1903 and printing onto almost any surface could now be done. Aloys Senefelder of Bavaria who discovered the lithography process in the 1790s and it's color version, called chromolithographs, were widely used in the second half of the 19th century and changed the look of the packaging that the goods being advertised were sold in.

1984 was the year when the first MAC came into picture becoming the first mass-market personal computer that featured a graphical user interface, built-in screen, and mouse. It was referred to as Apple Macintosh. Later on, in 1985, John Warnock, Charles Geschke of Adobe systems had created a programming language PostScript to control output devices like laser printers. Moving forward, the era of the '90s brought photoshop first version 1.0 on the screens. The emergence of photoshop in 1990 evolved designers ability to experiment more with new designs and photo manipulations become easy than before.

It was the same time when Tim-Berners Lee developed the concept of the World Wide Web along with HTML and implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the internet.

Trends change from years to years and months to months but what will be going to stay in the graphics industry is the use of more personalized and interactive designs. No matter wherever design goes next, and no matter in which decade we enter next to, User experience designs will surely going at the upfront with us. Technology will become more advanced and digitalization is only going to step ahead of us.

With thousands of years of history and another thousand years and much more. The graphic design industry has always surprised us with its varying nature of adopting new techniques that come in its way and will remain to surprise us with the new advancement in design techniques in the upcoming future.

In this blog, we have experienced a walk down memory lane of the 19 th century including the birth and evolution of some trends and platforms. We have also discussed how the graphic design industry transformed itself into the latest shift of digital technology, what is the graphics industry in today's date and how we see the industry over the next decades.

Now, Just a question, If there would be any time machine to take you in the back '90s in which year you would like to drop in and what is the most exciting thing about that time?