Graphic Design has always been a rapidly evolving field. Its examples can be found in the hundreds of drawings of animals in the Chauvet caves, dating back to 14,000 BC to the designs of the primitive hunters in the Bhimkbekta rock shelters in India. Examples can be found in religious text like the Qu'ran. Early maps and calligraphy specimens are some of the various examples of graphic design from history.

The past 200 years have been especially active in terms of graphic design movements and schools with the schools and designers around the world continuously innovating and changing the field. Designers and artists around the world were continuously changing the way people saw things.

The purpose of this visualization is to throws light and show some of the more popular design movements since 1930. This is by no means an exhaustive list and there are many more that were very niche and localised to certain geographic regions which I did not find sufficient data for and hence did not show them here.