The oldest surviving photo was taken by Joseph Nicephore Niepce titled "View from the Window at Le Gras"

Designers of the user interface strove to create an experience that would be appealing for users to have displayed around the clock. The main menu consisted of a grids with various channels (games, internet, photos, tv, news, etc...).

The first useful and marketable version of color photography. Auguste and Louis Lumiere discovered that using very fine colored potato starch reacted with light so that it created a positive transparency.

Peck and Synder, a sporting good store in New York began creating trading cards with photos of baseball players on one side, and business information on the other side as a unique form of advertising.

Artist Rose O'Neil created her Kewpie character that she incorporated into her many suffrage posters. Later becoming an extremely successful illustrator after her character was turned into dolls.

Designer Carolyn Davidson created the original Nike logo. Paid $35 at the time, and later compensated with 500 shares of stock.

The iconic MTV logo was redesigned by the Manhattan Design studio. Once they created the basic M and tv composition they realized they could apply countless styles, effects, and motion to create infinite variations.

Tik Tok has become one of the largest social media platforms in only a few years. Giving big names like Instagram and Facebook a run for their money, as it has shaped transformed how we create and consume short form video content.

One major objective of Art Nouveau was to break down the traditional
distinction between fine arts (especially painting and sculpture) and
applied arts. It was most widely used in interior design, graphic arts,
furniture, glass art, textiles, ceramics, jewellery and metal work.

De Stijl, an early 20th-century art movement, profoundly influenced graphic design by promoting simplicity, abstraction, and grid-based layouts. Its use of primary colors, asymmetry, and emphasis on functional design principles laid the groundwork for modern graphic design aesthetics, emphasizing clarity, minimalism, and efficient communication..   

The first practical color television was unveiled by John Logie Baird. It would take many years for a color standard to be developed and agreed upon (NTSC), and many more years for programming and consumers to adopt full color TV in the 1970s

Art Deco, short for the French Arts Décoratifs, and sometimes referred to simply as Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France just before World War I, and flourished in the United States and Europe.

It was commissioned by The Times newspaper in London, which sought a new, legible, and space-saving typeface to replace its existing, somewhat cluttered fonts. Stanley Morison, an influential typographer and designer, collaborated with Lardent, a graphic artist, to develop a font that combined readability with efficiency, making it ideal for newspaper publishing

Darryl “Cornbread” McCray, now widely considered the world’s first modern graffiti artist, was a 12-year-old troublemaker housed at Philadelphia’s Youth Development Center (YDC).

A collective of six New York-based artists and activists created this powerful protest project, which aimed to raise awareness of the AIDS epidemic that ravaged LGBTQIA+ communities

The Mid Century Modern movement was not only a sum of great creative minds, but a melting pot of recent historical events that catalyzed a sense of radicality and possibility in the world of art and design.

Instagram releases the "Algorithm". Previously posts were presented to users based on chronological order. With the algorithm in place, posts were ranked based on what it thought were the "best" posts for a particular user first. This shift in social media meant users and brands would now have to create more eye catching posts in order to be seen.

Nick Cave is a multidisciplinary artist who was born in Missouri. His work frequently meshes sculpture and fashion and manifests as “suits.” These suits were invented by Cave as metaphorical armor in response to the beatings of Rodney King.