1910-1920 POSTER ART/OUTDOOR ADVERTISING

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POSTER ART 1900-1910

The first was The Billposter and Distributor (the official journal of the Associated Billposters and Distributors of the United States and Canada) which premiered in 1897 it was changed and named to Advertising Outdoors: A Magazine Devoted to the Interests of the Outdoor Advertiser. In 1910 the title was again changed to The Poster: The National Journal of Outdoor Advertising and Poster Art which continued until 1930 when the title was changed for the last time to Outdoor Advertising.

Under each of these were published similar cases of successful poster campaigns and of popular designers’ work. A few of the illustrations were reproduced in full-color most were black and white, which played a part in the dullness of the magazines. Another negative factor was the artwork; despite a few exceptions. The majority of American advertising posters had, romantic and sentimental realism.

If only advertising agents had been influenced by German design at that time American posters and billboards might have made a quantum, aesthetic leap in the twentieth century. Although the art poster was born in Paris before the turn of the century, by 1905 Berlin was the capitol of modern form. And the clarion of this German poster exuberance was a magazine called Das Plakat, which not only exhibited the finest poster examples from Germany and other European countries, but its high standards, underscored by exquisite printing, established qualitative criteria that defined the decade of graphic design between 1910 and 1920.

www.typotheque.com/articles/graphic_design_magazines_das_plakat

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http://www.mapsofworld.com/olympic-trivia/images/olympic-posters/paris1900.jpg

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1920-1930 Woman’s, magazines, advertising and smoking







In the 1920 started a craze of smoking. This appeared in many areas of graphic design, from magazine covers, posters, films and even cigarette cases.
The art deco style and the glamour of Hollywood influenced smoking and its accessories. Women smoked openly and Hollywood stars appeared in adverts. Travel and over seas travel also became very popular and this became clear in advertising as well. Along with music such as jazz and females dressed in flapper style. Women were becoming more marketable in this era, as seen in Hollywood.

My pictures display a variety of styles in this era but all relates to advertising

• There were two art movements during this time:
• Surrealism Movement
• Began post World War I
• Used techniques of automatic drawing and painting
• Art Deco Movement
• Decorative art that affected architecture
• Originally began in Europe in the early 1920’s but caught on in the US in 1928
• Used materials such as stainless steel, aluminum, and zebraskin
• Used bold curves, sweeps, and zigzags
• Two famous American Artists
• Maxfield Parris § Helped shape the Golden Age of Illustration
• In the 1920’s he turned away from illustration to do Androgynous Nudes
• Used bright, luminous colors
• C. Coles Phillips
• Did many covers for magazines and ads in the 1920’s

http://images.google.com.au/images?hl=en&safe=on&q=1920-1930%20coke%20advertising&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

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http://www.travelbrochuregraphics.com/

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ttp://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&safe=active&q=1920-1930+women%27s+magazines&btnG=Search&meta=

www.smokerama.co.uk/ 1920-1930.asp


1940 - 1950 Swiss Graphic Design

European graphic design from the early days is a powerful inspiration source for designers all over the world. The new graphic design movement, also known as Swiss graphic design or International typographic style that emphasizes cleanliness, readability and objectivity has had a huge impact on all areas of design ever since it was developed in Switzerland in the 50’s. The styles are asymmetric layouts, use of a grid, sans-serif typefaces like Akzidenz Grotesk, and flush left, ragged right text. The style is also associated with a preference for photography in place of illustrations or drawings. Many of the early International Typographic Style works featured typography as a primary design element in addition to its use in text, and it is for this that the style is named.

Switzerland had developed a uniquely clear graphic language which matched the country’s reputation for efficiency and precision. Evident not just in posters but in advertisements, brochures and books, Neue Grafik or Swiss Style, as it became known, was respected internationally for its formal discipline: simple methods that could make posters dramatic and give an order and elegance to typographic design. Sharing the disciplines of Swiss Concrete Art, designers organised images and text
into geometrical grids. With sans-serif typefaces suchas
Helvetica and Univers, these were the chief components
of the Swiss Style which spread across the world. Its influence is still seen today, recognisable in corporate publicity and highway signs from Amsterdam to Tokyo and from London to Los Angeles.

The typical large, straight typography, sophisticated and simple styles were used. I have picked a collection of great posters and other artwork from the European graphic design. These are not all very typical Swiss style, but many of the designs presented here are clearly inspired by it, one way or another.

• Swiss graphic designs book

• Helvetica type face

• Akzidenz Grotesk designed in 1896 for the H. Berthold AG type foundry. The face was a hallmark of the modernist Swiss Style.

• Joseph Müller-Brockman 1955 design in the series for concert posters for the Tonhalle Gesellschaft Zürich.

• Basel 1959 for Geigy.

http://motiondesign.wordpress.com/category/1940/

http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=1940-1950+graphic+design&btnG=Google+Search&meta=&aq=f&oq=

http://devkick.com/blog/design-inspiration-european-graphic-design-from-1950-1970/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Typographic_Style

http://www.jannuzzismith.com/downloads/swissgraphicdesign_pr.pdf

http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&safe=active&q=1950+Swiss+graphic+design&btnG=Search&meta=

http://www.swisslegacy.com/wp-content/uploads//helvetica_3.jpg







Psychedelic designs inspired by the 60's and 70's

I think a lot of this psychedelic design goes well in several different genres – everything from music and concerts to skateboarding and surfing. It appears a lot to day in the design world of music, skate, surf culture.


High Society Psychedelic Rock Posters of Haight-Ashbury
Within the mid-1960s rock culture of San Francisco, a radical new form of graphic design, informed by the psychedelic (literally "mind-revealing") experience, was born. This was a bold new art form meant to advertise the dance concerts produced by impresarios Bill Graham and Chet Helms between 1965 and 1971. These events were an outgrowth of the "Acid Tests," multisensory happenings at which LSD, then a non-controlled substance, was dispensed to those attending.
The bands most frequently featured at the dance concerts, the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Moby Grape, and Big Brother and the Holding Company, emerged from the local hippie community flourishing in the city's Haight-Ashbury neighborhood. The dance concerts were participatory events combining sound, light, and motion. The audience moved about the hall freely, dancing, listening, and watching the transporting projections of light-show artists.
Psychedelic rock posters are the graphic extensions of the dance concerts and lasting documents of these events. Breaking long-established conventions of graphic design, the artists abandoned legibility and order for entwining, flowing, and distorted forms and lettering. The dizzying patterns, charged hues, wit, and visionary imagery of their designs reflect the sound and spirit of a particularly provocative moment in the history of American culture.

A small focus in the exhibition utilizes the Hood's collection of bold and colorful art nouveau posters of the 1890s to demonstrate their direct influence on many of the psychedelic posters of the 1960s. Several influential artists including Alphonse Marie Mucha in France, Aubrey Beardsley in England, and William Bradley in America were major practitioners of the emerging art nouveau style which utilized the curving lines and distorted lettering that later influenced the psychedelic poster artists. Graphic artists of the 1960s often used these elements in their posters, sometimes adopting imagery directly from art nouveau advertisements and altering only the color, wording, and layout of the original design.
High Society: Psychedelic Rock Posters of Haight-Ashbury is an ambitious exhibition that reexamines popular advertisements of a key moment in the history of American culture. It presents a unique opportunity to witness the journey of commercial graphic art from ephemera to fine art.
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80’s computer pixel art

In the 80’s was a crazy of computer games and computerized art. This was pixelated art that came on computer screens for manly computer games. The computer became more available to the every day user. This was the starting of the computer era and from here on the computer would play a big part in our every day lives. Apple computers became popular along with the commodore 64 and the Atari.

The 80’s was fill with bright colour and miss mash of patterns and prints. ANYTHING GOES really. THE BIGGER THE BETTER. Big hair, bright make up shoulder pads in fashion. This trend followed through in the style of computer graphics being bold and bright.

The term pixel art was first published by Adele Goldberg and Robert Flegal of Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in 1982.[1] The concept, however, goes back about 10 years before that, for example in Richard Shoup's SuperPaint system in 1972, also at Xerox PARC.
Some traditional art forms, such as cross-stitch, mosaic and beadwork, bear some similarity to pixel art by constructing pictures out of small colored units analogous to the pixels of modern digital computing. A similar concept on a much bigger scale can be seen in the mass games.

Bert Monroy is an American artist best known for his skill in using Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator.
Monroy is considered by some[who?] to be one of the pioneers of digital art. Much of his work is photorealistic. He has published several books, including the first on the use of Photoshop (The Official Adobe Photoshop Handbook, coauthored with David Biedny), and is also an accomplished lecturer. He was a frequent guest on The Screen Savers, where he gave brief Photoshop tutorials. In 2004 he was inducted into the Photoshop Hall of Fame. He also hosts a web TV show, PixelPerfect


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http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/05/08/vintage-color-design-70s-80s-arcade-graphics/

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert_Monroy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_art