Art

The quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance.

Hannah Hoch's 1925 "Equillibre," or Balance," was originally titled "America Balancing Europe."

Dada Art Movement – Making Mischief

On: April 1, 2023

Tagged: Abstract, Art, art movement, artist, artistic, concept, conceptual, creative, Design, design movement, Design Style, Design Term, geometric, graphic, style, surrealism

As a designer, I am passionate about the history of art and their influence on ‘visual design.’ In art history, Dada is the artistic movement that preceded Surrealism, it began in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1916 by a group of mostly painters and painters. Dada artworks challenged the preconceived notions of what art meant. Many Dadaists felt that the way to salvation was through political anarchy, the natural emotions, the intuitive and the irrational.Read More →

William Morris – Beauty of Practicality

On: March 27, 2023

Tagged: Abstract, Architect, Architecture, Art, artist, artwork, attractive, beautiful, colorful, creative, creativity, Design, Designer, drawing, graphic, graphic designer, hand, illustration, man, modern, pattern, professional, texture, vintage, William Morris

Morris believed his responsibility was “to revive a sense of beauty in home life, to restore the dignity of art to household decoration.Read More →

Frida Kahlo (1907 – 1954) – Symbolism and Metaphor

On: March 19, 2023

Tagged: Art, artist, artwork, beautiful, beauty, cartoon, celebration, color, colorful, culture, decoration, Design, elegant, Fashion, female, floral, flower, girl, halloween, illustration, mexican, mexico, retro, style, surrealism, Top 10 - week ending April 15, Top 10 - week ending April 23, traditional, vintage, woman

Frida Kahlo was a Mexican artist that lived most of her life and physical pain, yet she continued to paint until her death, her artwork records her suffering and experiences as a woman. She was born to a Mexican mother and a German father.Read More →

Keith Haring (1958 – 1990) – art that danced

On: March 7, 2023

Tagged: American designers 🇺🇸, American 🇺🇸, Art, graffiti, illustrations, illustrator, keith haring, new york, painter, painting, Street art, street artist

Keith Haring was best known for his graffiti-like painting, initially on the black paper used to cover discontinued billboard advertisements in the New York subway. After after a feverish 1980’s style career of surging popular success and grudging critical attention, Haring died of AIDS in 1991 at the age of 31.Read More →

Oscar Onken (1858 – 1948) and the ‘The Shop of the Crafters’

On: March 5, 2023

Tagged: American designers 🇺🇸, Art, arts and craft, Design, Furniture, Furniture designer

Oscar Onken (1858 – 1948) was an American entrepreneur. He was professionally active in Ohio. Onken was a prominent businessman and philanthropist. Impressed with the Gustav Stickley and Austrian stands at the 1904 St. Louis ‘Louisiana Purchase Exposition,’ he founded The Shop of the Crafts in Cincinnati in 1904. Read More →

Jan Tschichold (1902 – 1974) – Swiss Typographer

On: February 21, 2023

Tagged: Art, Design, elegant, German 🇩🇪, Germany 🇩🇪, graphic, graphic design, graphic designer, lettering, logo, poster, print, retro, style, swiss design 🇨🇭, swiss designer 🇨🇭, switzerland, symbol, text, type, typographic, Typography

German-born, Tschichold is one of the most outstanding and influential typographers of the 20th century, He cleared away the old typography of pre-1925 and made room for a modern, structured and regulated new typography. His work is characterised by rigorous structure, asymmetrical placement of contrasting elements, and layouts based on horizontal and vertical underlying grids.Read More →

Sigfried Giedion (1888 – 1968) – Swiss art historian and designer

On: January 3, 2023

Tagged: Architect, Architecture, Art, art history, Book, design history, swiss design 🇨🇭, swiss designer 🇨🇭

Sigfried Giedion (1888-1968) was a Swiss art historian and designer. He was born in Prague. Read More →

Jules Cheret (1836 – 1932) – The Father of Modern Poster Art

On: October 3, 2022

Tagged: Abstract, Art, artistic, Book, bright, bsd, card, colorful, concept, cover, creative, creativity, decoration, Design, drawing, flower, geometric, graphic, history, illustration, modern, paint, paper, Paris, pattern, poster, retro, shape, sign, style, vintage

Jules Cheret was a French painter who became a master of Belle Epoque poster art. Over the course of his long life, Cheret produced more than 1000 posters. His extravagantly colourful designs were used to regularly promote upcoming theatre productions. He is regarded as the father of the modern poster.Read More →

Helen Abson (b.1942) Australian Architect and Fabric Designer

On: September 23, 2022

Tagged: 1950s, Abstract, Architect, Architecture, Art, australian, australian design, australian designer, Design, Designer, designers, designs, fabric, fabric designer, fabrics, feather, female designer, Furniture designer, Interior Design, interior designer, pattern, textile, textile designer, texture, women, work

Helen Abson, who trained as an architect, is an Australian designer. She pursued architecture for five years; founded ZAB Design where she designed fabrics that exhibited a preoccupation for texture achieved through pattern and colour.Read More →

Roger Fry (1866 – 1934) British painter, writer, art critic and designer

On: July 2, 2022

Tagged: Art, art critic, artist, British, British Design, British Designers 🇬🇧, Design, design critic, workshop

Roger Fry was a British painter, writer, art critic, designer, and lecturer. He was born in London. Between 1885 – 1890, he studied natural sciences, Cambridge University, and Académie Julian, Paris, 1892. Read More →

What Does Mark Tansey’s Innocent Eye Test Reveal?

On: June 26, 2022

Tagged: Art, artist, Book

“The Innocent Eye Test” (1981) is perhaps the best-known work of Mark Tansey and oneRead More →

What is a Monogram?

On: June 22, 2022

Tagged: antique, Art, Art deco, decoration, decorative, Design Term, elegant, element, floral, graphic, illustration, letter, logo, ornament, sign, style, stylish, symbol, vintage

A monogram is a single symbol made up of one or more letters. Every aspect of an individual’s taste and fancy can be accommodated with a monogram. Monograms differ significantly, and there are of a great variety of design. There are so many different types and combinations of the same letters that no two persons with the same initials need to have the same monogram. Read More →

AIGA – American Institute of Graphic Arts – What is it?

On: June 20, 2022

Tagged: Abstract, Art, artistic, business, color, concept, creative, decorative, Design, geometric, geometric design, graphic, graphic design, hand, illustration, modern, poster, professional, professional association, red, retro, shape, style, text

The American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) is a group of professional designers who aim to show how important design is to industry, society, and our future as a whole. It was started in 1914 by a small group of graphic designers, printers, publishers, and illustrators. Since then, it has developed into a national network of skilled designers, educators, students, and fans. AIGA aims to help individuals in business, the media, and the government understand how vital design and designers are. It also works to improve professional growth, promote the value of design, and set worldwide conventions and moral guidelines.Read More →

Jessie Marion King (1875 – 1949) Scottish illustrator of children’s books

On: January 11, 2022

Tagged: Architect, Art, British, British Designers 🇬🇧, female designer, female illustrator, illustrator, Paris, scottish designer

Jessie Marion King (1875 – 1949) was a well-known Scottish illustrator who specialised in children’s books. She also painted pottery and crafted bookplates, jewellery, and fabric. King was a member of the Glasgow Girls, a collective of female artists.Read More →

Nanna Ditzel (1923 – 2005) Danish architect and furniture designer

On: December 6, 2021

Tagged: Art, brooch, copenhagen, danish, Danish Design, danish designers 🇩🇰, Denmark, Design, designed, designers, designs, Furniture, jewellery, Scandi Design

Nanna Ditzel, a leading Danish 20th-century designer, had also worked in furniture, textiles and jewellery design for many decades and has been one of the few women designers in the country to achieve celebrity status.Read More →

Alexander Calder (1898 – 1976) American Designer & Artist

On: November 26, 2021

Tagged: American design 🇺🇸, American designers 🇺🇸, American 🇺🇸, Art

He worked as an engineer in Rutherford, New Jersey, in 1919, and as a draftsperson and engineer in West Coast logging camps from 1919 to 23; from 1923 to 1930, he was active in New York, sketching for the National Police Gazette 1925—26; in 1926, he travelled to England and Paris, where he produced his 1927—28 miniature circus and worked on wood sculpture; was best known for his mobiles,’ hanging sculptures whose amorphic and bio His linear, wiry images were most likely influenced by Joan Miro and Paul Klee. Read More →

Patrizia Ranzo Italian architect and designer

On: November 19, 2021

Tagged: Architect, Architecture, Art, culture, designed, Designer, female designer, Furniture, Furniture Design, Furniture designer, Italian Design 🇮🇹, Italian Designers 🇮🇹, Italian 🇮🇹, Italian furniture 🇮🇹, italy, Naples, Paris, Table, women

Patrizia Ranzo is an Italian architect and designer. She was born and active in Naples. She studied architecture in Naples to 1981. Read More →

Paul Kiss (1885 – 1962) Hungarian Metal worker

On: November 18, 2021

Tagged: Art, Art deco, Designer, Hungarian designer, metal smith, metalwork, Paris

Paul Kiss was Hungarian metalworker he was born Belabalva (now Romania). He was professionally active in Paris. Read More →

ISOTYPE – International System of Typographic Picture Education

On: October 29, 2021

Tagged: Art, art term, Design Term

ISOTYPE was created as a mechanism of communicating statistics using graphic symbols. It was an essential part of Otto Neurath’s (1882–1945) worldwide graphic language, which he created in Vienna following World War I. Originally known as the Vienna Method of Pictorial Statistics, ISOTYPE was created to make complex statistical information about housing, health, education, and other vital priorities more understandable to the general public in the difficult economic and political circumstances of 1920s Vienna by presenting the data in a visually appealing format. Read More →

William Bower Dalton (1868 – 1965) British watercolourist and potter

On: October 4, 2021

Tagged: Art, British, British Design, British Designers 🇬🇧, Ceramic Design, cermamics, london, potter, potters, pottery

He was the principal of Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts from 1899 to 1919. He was the curator of the South London Art Gallery during and after this time. Dalton was just 31 years old when he arrived at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts in 1899. He’d done well to land the position in such a competitive environment – there were 71 other candidates.Read More →

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