Tuesday, May 12, 2009

STACY POST 8: 1920's and 1930's graphic design styles



The 1920's and 30's were rich and diverse in graphic art styles- Art Deco, Bauhaus, Constructivism and the beginnings of International style from Switzerland to name a few. Discuss an aspect of graphic design from the two decades.

1920's

the roaring twenties, flappers, cocktails invented, the jazz age, charleston, new feminism, prohibition of alcohol 18th ammendment, coco chanel, burberry, jaeger, merz magazine, schwitters, million mark note herbert bayer, edward johnston - railway type, quaker oats, a.m.cassandre, bakelite candlestick telephone, philips 2514 radio and speaker, mussolini becomes prime minister of italy, al jolson appears in the jazz singer first full length talking film, kodak developes colour 16mm film, wall street crash, 'vanity fair', paris exposition internationale des arts decoratifs et industriels modernes in 1925, el lissitsky, futurist poster stamp 1931, binder, clarence underwood, raoul dufy textiles, gunta stolzl, neophone 1929, universal font 1925, futura font 1927, offset magazine, paul renner, gills sans 1928, beginnings of jazz, held, malevich, constructivism, "elementare typographie", great gatsby,turkey abolishes arabic alphabet and adopts roman, mah- jongg craze, tutankhamans tomb opened, black friday crash of wall street, bauhaus movement, abstact expressionism, chanel pallette- biege488/taupe4645/ gray warm/black, celery614/pale pink 691/lavender664/powder blue 650 light green 622, art deco bronze 8960/chrome, steel 8002/and glass, bright colours as spot colours,fonts eagle bold, cheltenham, cheltenham bold, kabel black, kabelbook, kabel heavy, kabel light, monotype broadway, ozwald, parsons, futura, erbar, franklin gothic, news gothic, gill sans, coronet

1930's

us "dust bowl" saville row tailoring, sheath dress, trouser suit, manray, graham sutherland, piet zwart, ekco ad 65 radio, peoples radio, hitler appointed chancellor in 1933 then fuhrer in 1934, spanish civil war begins 1934, 'blanco y negro', herbert bayer, 'die neue linie' , life magazine first issue, world war 11 begins 1939, ramazzotti posters, seneca, hohlwein, bonal posters, edward mcknight kauffer,ruth reeves textiles, enid marx textiles, desk telephone, times new roman 1931, bmw logo,scarface jailed, dionne quintuplets bornedward VIII abdicates to marry wallis simpson, dixieland jazz,boogie woogie, jive, swing era, gone with the wind,suntans, ballpoint pen by laslo biro, nylon stockings, falling water by frank lloyd wright, colours somber gray 432 black, brown 4625, white off white ivories, and soft pastels 9042, 9060, 9061, 9021, 9023, 9381, 9041 gilding, perwinkle blue 2725 with taupe 264 and dijon yellows 110 with charcoal gray 426, the little black dress, shocking pink211 fonts piranes script, stymie elongated, goudy stout, radiant, huxley vertical, times roman, futura , gill, granby, metro, memphisis, keynote script, kaufman script, greco solid, hollywood deco, dynamo, bernhardt bold, bernhardtmedium, bernhardt light,

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