- Posted by: Zara |
- 98 days ago |
- In Blue Splat News, Interesting
Have you got that Friday feeling yet? We do! Because it’s Friday we decided to compile some interesting and random facts about the graphic design and web development and design worlds!!
1. Australia has the most established users of social media in the world, followed by USA and the UK
2. The first recognised visual communication supported with pictograms and symbols was found between 15,000 – 10,000 BC, in the Lascaux caves in southern France
3. The first website on the internet was “http://info.cern.ch/” launched in 1992 by Tim Berners-Lee and it is still active today!
4. Facebook has more than 800 million active users. If it were a country it would be the third largest in the world after China (population: 1.34 billion) and India (population: 1.17 billion)
5. Statistics show that users will wait only 4 seconds to begin to see a page loading when they first visit a website and only 20 seconds for the entire page to download to the screen.
6. The word graphic means to “give a clear picture”
7. We all have similar tastes in colour regardless of gender, nationality or culture, we all order our preference of colours in a predictable order, with only a small amount of variation. In adults the order from most to least preferred colour tends are: blue, red, green, violet, orange and yellow, while in children it is more often: red, blue, green, violet, orange and yellow
8. A new blog is created somewhere in the world every half a second. This proves how popular blogging has become on the Internet
9. William A. Dwiggins, a type designer, printer and typographer was the first to coin the phrase “Graphic Designer” in 1922
10. Twitter gets more than 300,000 new user’s every day.
Zara
Zara McBrearty is the Marketing Assistant here at Blue Splat. She enjoys music and shopping.
