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		<title>100+ years of graphic design</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 past, starting at the turn of twentieth century transitioning to the modern era, the influence of which continues to this day. First, William Morris, then Czech artist [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>William Morris and the Pre-Raphaelites</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[a love of craft THE MAN WHO did so much to inspire members of the literary circle called The Inklings, of which JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis were members, and establish the fantasy genre, died at age 62 in 1896, after which an eminent doctor wrote, “I consider the case is this: the disease is [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Alphonse Mucha and art nouveau</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[what we think of as modern art today began in 1860, then careered onwards through the next century Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Georges Seurat and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec were its first influences. Art Nouveau in 1900 was a kind of prelude to the 20th century version. The painters most closely associated with [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>El Lissitzky, revolutionary pioneer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2021 23:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 of it in the Soviet Union. One of its objectives was to combine words and images as a simultaneous experience on the printed page and in film. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2021 23:47:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;VE WRITTEN ABOUT constructivism in a previous post, and the Russian avant garde designer El Lissitzky (see&#160;“El Lissitzky: revolutionary pioneer”). After him another Russian, Alexey Brodovitch, influenced a whole generation in his evening classes in Philadelphia and New York called Design Laboratory over a 25-year period. He is most famous as the art director for [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[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 II. The modernism that dominated afterwards emphasized function over form, so art deco was considered pretentious, even kitsch, though its enduring popularity attests to human love for ornamentation. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[CASSANDRE WAS THE pseudonym of Adolphe Jean-Marie Mouron, born in Ukraine of French parents at the turn of the twentieth century. As a young man he moved to Paris, studied at a couple of art schools, then soon found work for a printer designing posters. In time he formed an advertising agency with partners, served [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[DE STIJL MEANS “the style” in Dutch, an appropriate moniker for the art movement that established the style of twentieth-century design. Its origins in the Netherlands were providential and timely because during World War I the country was not only neutral, and spared of the upheaval and destruction, but also isolated as a result. Thus [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[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 the start of the new century asked for innovative solutions. Designers responded by accepting industrial technology as here to stay. Germany, defeated in World War I, experienced a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2021 15:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[PIET MONDRIAN AND De Stijl freed contemporary design of its former restrictions, despite the criticism of rigidity it sometimes receives (see&#160;“De Stijl: Mondrian, Oud and Van Doesburg”). American graphic designer Paul Rand was one of the freed. His reputation rose early for page layouts as a young art director for&#160;Esquire&#160;and&#160;Coronet&#160;magazines in 1937, and only increased [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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