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Found on Centralasian's wonderful Flickr stream . While this appears to be a contemporary illustration, it still has a great retro feel to it and so I am labeling it accordingly.
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Steampunk Typography
One problem when writing a post on Steampunk is how to label it correctly: Does one use the label "19th Century" or "21st Century" or both? Again, would this genre go under "Victoriana" or "Computer"?
It seems to me that all of the above would have to apply: Although Steampunk , as an art and design movement is contemporary and is also often computer based through its wide usage in game design, the inspir…
Throughout the 1930's and 1940's the Container Corporation of America ran a series of mostly black and white advertisements in Fortune Magazine. Designed by the likes of Cassandre, Kepes and Herbert Bayer, these ads are nothing less than landmarks of modernist design.
Of the images below, the upper advert is either by Herbert Bayer or Kepes; in the upper middle we have one by Herbert Bayer; the lower middle is by Cassandre; and finally…
Not only is Ando Hiroshige a hugely important artist in his own right, but he is also to be reckoned with in terms of the influence that he and his fellow Japanese woodblock printers exerted over late 19th Century Western art & design: Hiroshige combines ideograms and imagery in his prints, often through a usage of boxes and rules as hierarchical aids. And it is this mastery over typographic hierarchies combined with complex imagery that wa…
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