T.G.G: November 2008

Sunday 30 November 2008

The Website, what you think guys? [pavel]

heres the website, let me know what you think, could it be improved and so on. Ty

Saturday 29 November 2008

cool timeline (annie)

http://www.designhistorytimeline.com/

Friday 28 November 2008

1890|1900 introduction sample [Annie]

1890-1900

Victorian (1837-1901)
Art nouveau
Arts and craft movement

1892 American Typefounders is formed

1893 Morris, Chaucer type

1894 Morris & Crane, the story of the glittering plain

1895 Goudy’s Camelot, his 1^st typeface

1896 Morris, Kelmscott Chaucer, Pisarro found Eragny press; Rogers joins riverside Press; Hornby starts Ashendene Press, Morris dies.

Two opposing aesthetics make themselves felt in Art Nouveau design: one is a return to the organic and curvilinear, the other a tendency toward abstraction and repetition. Drawing on traditional craft design and heavily indebted to Japanese print-making, Art Nouveau designers employed plant and animal motifs represented with heavy, trailing lines and flat colors. Often these motifs would take on a geometrical edge and would be repeated to form patterns covering entire print fields or filling borders for illustrations.

In England, William Morris (1834-96) brought the Arts and Crafts movement to bear on the design of books and illustrations. Reacting against the Industrial Revolution, he reintroduced letterforms and tendril-filled borders that recall medieval manuscripts. Aubrey Beardsley (1872-98) created graphics using sinuous, flowing black line. His sometimes lurid subject matters (he illustrated Oscar Wilde’s "Salomé") almost drip wickedly off the page. In Glasgow, Charles Rennie Mackintosh took this elongated feel and made it symmetrical, vertical, and abstract.

On the French side of the Channel, Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) caused a sensation with sensual portrayals of public figures like Sarah Bernhardt. Framed by elaborate plants and flowing organic forms, his women were icons of glamour. Eugène Grasset (1841-1917), another poster designer, provided some of the essential elements of this style with his Art Nouveau typefaces, as well as the thick black contour lines and flat colors he adopted from Japanese woodcuts.

In Vienna, Mackintosh's abstract verticals were influential. Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) and Josef Hoffmann (1870-1956) produced posters for the Vienna Secession and designs for the movement’s magazine Ver Sacrum. Their work emphasizes rectilinear symmetry and bold patterns. Magazines played a large role in popularizing Art Nouveau style in Germany, with the arrival of Jugend (the source of "Jugendstil") and Simplicissiumus in 1896. Both journals broke classical conventions with naturalistic illustrations that dominated the page. And they replaced traditional typography with brushed letterforms and ornamental typefaces.

Having catalyzed the transition from Victorianism to the modern, Art Nouveau began to lose its momentum around 1915. After World War I, Dada, Bauhaus, and other Modernist movements began to explore different directions for design. In the 1960s, however, designers looked back to Nouveau's serpentine forms and sensuous symbolism to inspire their own return to nature -- the psychedelic prints of the period drip with line and color. Today, Art Nouveau is recognized as one of the most fertile periods in design history.

From: (http://www.artandculture.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/movement?id=363

People:

Baron Victor Horta (Belgian architect, 1861-1947)

http://www.victorhorta.com/

http://www.senses-artnouveau.com/biography.php?artist=HOR

http://www.hortamuseum.be/main.php?lang=en

Jules Cheret (1836-1933)

http://www.yaneff.com/html/artists/cheret.html

http://www.cheret.info/

http://www.artnet.com/artist/3954/jules-cheret.html

http://www.mystudios.com/bios/Jules_Cheret.html

Eugene Grasset (1841-1917)

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

http://www.umtoquedearte.com/diamond/egrasset1.htm

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901)

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/T/toulouse-lautrec.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYKeFakAy1I

Aubrey Beardsley

http://www.wormfood.com/savoy/

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/B/beardsley.html

http://beardsley.artpassions.net/

Alphonse Mucha

http://www.bpib.com/illustrat/mucha.htm

http://www.mucha.cz/index.phtml?S=home&Lang=EN

William Morris

http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/morris/wmbio.html

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

Ethel Reed (first American woman graphic designer/illustrator, 1876- )

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?word=ethel+reed&c=212&sScope=Collection+Guide&sLabel=Turn%2520of%2520the%2520Century%2520Posters

http://www.harpers.org/subjects/EthelReedStrainchamps

Others:

Emmanuel Orazi (1860-1934)

Theophile-Alexandre Steinlen (1859-1923)

Walter Crane

Charles Ricketts

James Pride (1866-1941)

William Nicholson (1872-1949)

Dudley Hardy (1866-1922)

Louis J. Rhead (1857-1926)

William Bradley (1868-1962)

Hans Christiansen (1866-1945)

Peter Berhens (1868-1940)

Otto Eckmann (1865-1902)

Frederic Goudy

Things:

THE STUDIO (art periodical, first in april 1895)

HARPERS MAGAZINE (http://www.harpers.org/archive)

THE BEGGARSTAFF (http://www.yaneff.com/html/artists/beggarstaff.html)

Sunday 23 November 2008

Example of dividing your work, Try to follow this routine, Thanx (pav)

Try to put the two dates in separate folders

Try to organise every important thing / people that were or happened in this type of style, put everything in different folders.

Please make sure that you create a document page with just headings with dates. Try to put them in order please. Thank you. Pavel

Friday 21 November 2008

umh.

hey guys...
i think i won't probably split the "people" section in three different period (arts and crafts, victorian and art nouveau) cuase that's gonna be too complicated...

so...i'll have just one section for the first decade (1890-1900) and maybe i'm gonna split just the features of each period...

cheers
Annie