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    100+ years of graphic design

    art history
    May 13, 2021/production
    we’ve been around for a while now too THE STUDIO HAS been thriving since 1992. I mean I have begun a series on great art directors of the...
     
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    William Morris and the Pre-Raphaelites

    art history
    May 13, 2021/production
    a love of craft Acanthus wallpaper, 1875 by William Morris. THE MAN WHO did so much to inspire members of the literary circle called The Inklings, of which JRR...
     
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    Alphonse Mucha and art nouveau

    art history
    May 13, 2021/production
    what we think of as modern art today began in 1860, then careered onwards through the next century Aristide Bruant, 1892 by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Vincent van Gogh, Paul...
     
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    El Lissitzky, revolutionary pioneer

    art history
    May 13, 2021/production
    the Soviet avant garde CONTEMPORARY DESIGNERS ARE often unaware of constructivism and its impact on contemporary graphic design, probably due to Josef Stalin’s efficiency in eliminating all evidence...
     
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    Alexey Brodovitch, design leader

    art history
    May 13, 2021/production
    I'VE WRITTEN ABOUT constructivism in a previous post, and the Russian avant garde designer El Lissitzky (see “El Lissitzky: revolutionary pioneer”). After him another Russian, Alexey Brodovitch, influenced...
     
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    art deco: only a sideshow

    art history
    May 14, 2021/production
    AFTER WORLD WAR I, an eclectic popular style appeared in France characterized by ornamental and decorative craft motifs, and Machine Age* materials, but waned after World War...
     
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    Cassandre and the poster

    art history
    May 14, 2021/production
    Dubonnet poster by Cassandre, one of a series.www.cassandre-france.com CASSANDRE WAS THE pseudonym of Adolphe Jean-Marie Mouron, born in Ukraine of French parents at the turn of the twentieth...
     
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    De Stijl: Mondrian, Oud and Van Doesburg

    art history
    May 14, 2021/production
    Composition No 10, 1939-1942, Piet Mondrian. DE STIJL MEANS “the style” in Dutch, an appropriate moniker for the art movement that established the style of twentieth-century design. Its origins...
     
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    the Bauhaus and the international style

    art history
    May 15, 2021/production
    WILLIAM MORRIS HAD initiated the craft approach to design in the nineteenth century, but looked backwards romantically to a pre-industrial age. The tremendous violence and chaos at...
     
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    Paul Rand and the symbol

    art history
    May 15, 2021/production
    No Way Out, 1950 movie poster by Paul Rand. PIET MONDRIAN AND De Stijl freed contemporary design of its former restrictions, despite the criticism of rigidity it sometimes...
     
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    Herb Lubalin, eclectic typographer

    art history
    May 15, 2021/production
    THE 1970s DECADE is called the “pivot of change” in the twenty-first century, particularly with reference to economic upheaval (so what else is new?), as well as...
     
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    Saul Bass: logos and film titles

    art history
    May 15, 2021/production
    what makes a good designer? SAUL BASS ONCE said, “If it’s simple simple, it’s boring. We try for the idea that is so simple that it will make...
     
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    pop art: Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol

    art history
    May 15, 2021/production
    For Käte, 1947 by Kurt Schwitters, Dada proto-Pop. The Mies van der Rohe building Barcelona Pavilion cited in an earlier blog about the Bauhaus (see “the Bauhaus and the international style”)...
     
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