Post 7 - Chris Nowlan - Art Nouveau 1900-20

Art Nouveau

Art nouveau is a french term for 'New Art",  and officially emerged as a full-blown phenomenon at 1900 World's Fair in Paris, where it was established as the first new decorative style of the twentieth century.  The goal was to create an international style of design.  Like the Arts and Crafts movement, fluid organic shapes heavily influenced it. And also like the Arts and Crafts Movement, it was a response to the Industrial Revolution. Art Nouveau's fifteen-year peak was most strongly felt throughout Europe—from Glasgow to Moscow to Spain—but its influence was global.

Two-dimensional Art Nouveau pieces were painted, drawn, and printed in popular forms such as advertisements, posters, labels, magazines, and the like. Japanese wood-block prints, with their curved lines, patterned surfaces, contrasting voids, and flatness of visual plane, also inspired Art Nouveau. Some line and curve patterns became graphic clichés that were later found in works of artists from all parts of the world.

 Art Nouveau designers believed that all the arts should work in harmony to create a "total work of art," or Gesamtkunstwerk.  Nature designers.   Motifs from the natural world were the basis for most of their work.

In Britain the style was exemplified by design work of the Macdonald sisters and in Germany, the movement split between the decorative tendencies of Otto Eckman (1865-1902) and the Panmagazine, and the streamlined design of Behrens.

Links

http://www.cubanxgiants.com/berry/300/documents/graphicdesign1.pdf

http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/a/artnouveau.html 

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/art_nouveau.html

http://www.nga.gov/feature/nouveau/exhibit_intro.shtm

Vignelli's Quote

Any colour works if you push it to the extreme

If I can put it simply; NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE

But it doesn’t limit the reference to colour but everything in general. there is no limit to what one can do

If you work and push it to the extreme.

POST7: STACY 1900-1920

Select a design, a style, a designer or a technology from the period 1900- 1920. Report in 250 words or more with images and links the contribution made to twentieth century graphic design

1900

skeleton telephone, first cubist exhibition,peter behrens builds first steel and glass building and aeg poster jugenstijl, socialist revolution party formed. 'colliers' magazine.edward penfield. 'la baionnette', ' millions', 'every week' figaro illustre', the arcadian', jessie m. king, charles rennie mackintosh, mucha, klimt, moser, hoffman, olbrich, loffler, vienna secession stamps, eckman schmuk, otto eckmann, art nouveau, galle, guimard, mackmurdo, william morris,san francisco earthquake, Fauves movement, Futurism begins, cubism, music halls, first flight by Wright brothers, zeppellin flight, new york subway opened, henry ford model T in production line, colours opalized pinks pantone 5035/ 4675, ballet russe, Fauves used scarlet pantone 199, apple green 584.neo impressionists yellow 128/orange 143/teal 321/periwinkle660/violet 512/rust 704/green 575/fonts franklin gothic/ franklin gothic extra condensed/franklin gothic no.2/bodoni/ bodoni poster italic/ caslon/ caslon italic

1910

armory show introduces modern art to new york / the edwardian era, outbreak of ww1 1914-18, the deer cry- archibald knox- liberty prints, first jazz record issued, russian revolution, stile liberty, leopoldo metlicovitz, odeeon casino posters, schnackenberg, 'jugend' 'das plakat', stockholm olympic posters, bortzell, leete, hassall, multiplex typewriter, underground font, bauhaus, Schlemmer, Schmidt, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Terry-Adler, Theo van Doesburg ,dada. hoch, heartfield, hausmann, manray, grosz, futurism, Informative Functionalism, futurism, Expressionism, Titanic sinks, WW1 begins, suffagette movement, foxtrot,Futurism, Orphism, travel, bobbed hair for women,light green pantone5445/swooning mauve 5015/tans 465/ iridescent colours electric light bulb invented

a few links that may start you off

http://www.graphicdesigntimeline.net/

http://www.metmuseum.org

http://blackboard.tynecoll.ac.uk/nln/frameset.php?url=Arts%20and%20Crafts/Art%20Studies/workshop3_JA2_twentieth%20century%20timeline/

http://cooperhewitt.org/

http://www.moma.org/

http://www.designhistorysociety.org/

http://agda.com.au/

http://www.designboom.com/eng/

http://designtaxi.com/

Jack's final post

“WE READ BEST WHAT WE READ MOST”

Zuzana Licko

“Typefaces are not intrinsically legible, rather, it is the reader’s familiarity with faces that accounts for their legibility”.

 I think where all guilty of having to look at two or three times at the same piece of text until we can under stand it, I can still remember receiving birthday cards from my grandmother that would take a team CIA hackers to decipher but after getting one every year for the last 19 year I kinda get the picture now.

“Legibility is also a dynamic process, as readers’ habits are ever changing. Similarly, typestyles that we perceive as illegible today may well become tomorrow’s classic choices” Helvetica may in 1000 years  be perceived like    

Helvetica       and street signs like this          

STOP 

 

designer 0ne-term one-neville brody by jules

Biography
Neville Brody, the British designer and art director, has now been at the forefront of graphic design for over two decades.

Initially working in record cover design, Brody made his name largely through his revolutionary work as Art Director for the Face magazine. Other international magazine directions have included City Limits, Lei, Per Lui, Actuel and Arena, together with London's The Observer newspaper and magazine.

Brody has consistently pushed the boundaries of visual communication in all media through his experimental and challenging work, and continues to extend the visual languages we use through his exploratory creative expression.In 1988 Brody published the first of his two monographs , which became the world's best selling graphic design book. Combined sales now exceed 120,000. An accompanying exhibition of his work at the Victoria and Albert Museum attracted over 40,000 visitors before touring Europe and Japan.

POST 6.

PAUL RAND

"DESIGN IS THE METHOD OF PUTTING FORM AND CONTENT TOGETHER. DESIGN, JUST AS ART, HAS MULTIPLE DEFINITIONS; THERE IS NO SINGLE DEFINITION. DESIGN CAN BE ART. DESIGN CAN BE AESTHETICS. DESIGN IS SO SIMPLE, THATS WHY IT IS SO COMPLICATED".

Design can't be right, nor wrong, that's the beauty of design. Design is a personal interpretation, representing a purpose, which can reach you on an emotional level. You simply like it or you don't!

Design is very diverse, portraying numerous meanings and thoughts. Design seems so simple, but in the same respect, so complicated.

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My understanding to Milton Glaser’s Quote!

                                                          Akasha

“The real issue is not talent as an independent element but talent in relationship to will, desire & persistence.

Talent without these things vanishes & even modest talent with those characteristics grows.”   Milton Glaser

 

I feel what Glaser is saying is that to be talented is great, but unless you apply yourself with a will of desire and creative drive, in daily life and throughout all different situations and have the passion behind your work, your talent can diminish, your incentive and initiative can be hollow, therefore vanishes.

Where as if you’re maybe not so talented to begin with, but your dedicated and passionate, you apply yourself to your work with creative force your talent can grow and flourish with persistence.