Do you want to know more about Contextual Studies that involve Graphic Design in the old days and which were the first ever drawings and who made them ? I'm learning a lot about the history of graphic design and I will be discussing and giving my observations on what I learn and still learning. 
As far as I learned, Graphic Design is a very interesting subject which has a lot of things and has a quite number of interesting facts divided into many categories which are: Typography, illustration, photography and printing. The very first person who used the term of graphic designer was Addison Dwiggins and it happened in 1922. After the world war II graphic design came widely popular.
There are a lot of vast subjects in graphic design like Ideogram/phonograph, Pictographs, Multimedia and some of these have ancient artefacts which represents the people of that particular age.
As the first ever designs that a human designed were in the prehistoric times and that could mean a lot of things like communicating with one to another and compare it to now a days we are still doing that through graphic design. Even if that time they communicated by paintings we are still using that same concept but with modern designs with that has a message behind it. In prehistoric times they used to draw on rock which was called as cave paintings and you can find them on cave walls or even ceilings.
These cave paintings also called as parietal art are 40,000 years old and can these paintings can be found in Asia as well in Europe. There are some paintings which are monochrome cave painting which means that they only used one colours which commonly use black. Some of them are Poly-chrome cave painting that consists as 2 or more colours. These colours or should I say pigments were created with different types of materials. The clay ochre was the most used to create these pigments and from the clay three colours succeeded to output which are yellow, brown and many type of red.
When you mention a cave drawing it's more referred to as a certain type of drawings which is engraved drawings which are called as Petroglyphs. These engraved drawings are done by instil into solid rock surface and they used a stone tool which they made or a flint. Most of these cave paintings to not to say all of them show a figurative animals. The first artists in the stone age they painted a lot of animals which were predators like lions, rhinoceroses, bears. Other drawings that exist is the hand paintings that divides into two types which are prints or stencils. The hands were painted with different colours like red, white or black.
In cave paintings abstract art is common also which include a lot of different art like dots, lines, signs and symbols. Some of them are simply made with just a brushstroke or circles, semi-circles, triangles and straight lines but some others are more complex than others.
As the first ever designs that a human designed were in the prehistoric times and that could mean a lot of things like communicating with one to another and compare it to now a days we are still doing that through graphic design. Even if that time they communicated by paintings we are still using that same concept but with modern designs with that has a message behind it. In prehistoric times they used to draw on rock which was called as cave paintings and you can find them on cave walls or even ceilings.
When you mention a cave drawing it's more referred to as a certain type of drawings which is engraved drawings which are called as Petroglyphs. These engraved drawings are done by instil into solid rock surface and they used a stone tool which they made or a flint. Most of these cave paintings to not to say all of them show a figurative animals. The first artists in the stone age they painted a lot of animals which were predators like lions, rhinoceroses, bears. Other drawings that exist is the hand paintings that divides into two types which are prints or stencils. The hands were painted with different colours like red, white or black. In cave paintings abstract art is common also which include a lot of different art like dots, lines, signs and symbols. Some of them are simply made with just a brushstroke or circles, semi-circles, triangles and straight lines but some others are more complex than others.
