Alfons Maria Mucha

This was the most visually appealing to me.

Interest in Mucha's distinctive style experienced a strong revival in the 1960s (with a general interest in Art Nouveau) and is particularly evident in the psychedelic posters of Hapshash and the Coloured Coat, the collective name for two British artists, Michael English and Nigel Waymouth, who designed posters for groups such as Pink Floyd and The Incredible String Band.

This excerpt from Wikipedia made this artist much more relevant to me.

Album Art Over The Years

50's

70's

Modern

Helevetica: David Carson

David Carson is an American graphic designer. He is best known for his innovative magazine design, and use of experimental typography. He was the art director for the magazine Ray Gun. Carson was perhaps the most influential graphic designer of the nineties. In particular, his widely-imitated aesthetic defined the so-called "grunge" era

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Helevetica: Neville Brody

Movie Poster: 12

Fuse

Nike Advertisement

Neville Brody is an English graphic designer, typographer, and art director.

Aubrey Beardsley

I chose this picture because of it's simplicity. The simplicity added to the nature of the picture as well as the character of the woman featured.

This piece had jester which added to the Masquerade nature of the piece. It was fun and I enjoyed looking at it.

I selected this piece off of humor along. It also demonstrated the overall sexual and lewd artwork that Beardsley created that was uncharacteristic of the time and the movement.

Beardsley is noted as the most controversial artist of the Art Nouveau Era, due to his dark and overly sexual images. People tended to speculate about his sexuality. He associated with a group of artists known as the "Homosexual Clique" which included author Oscar Wilde. There was also speculation that Beardsley had an "incestuous relationship with his elder sister, Mabel, who may have become pregnant by her brother and miscarried." Overall, sexuality seem to be a core issue behind Beardsley himself and a lot his artwork.

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Helevetica: Michael C. Pace

Michael C. Pace considers himself to be a Modernist specializing in forward-thinking Graphic Design.

Oskar Kokoschka

I chose this artist because of his name originally, but it turns out he was heavily inspired by the previous artist I chose, Gustav Klimit. Also, another quite spooky thing is that Oskar died 8 years before my birthday on February 22, 1980 and I was born February 22, 1988. Kokoschka is apart of the Expressionist movement, but raised during the Vienna Secession and his work is heavily influenced by that.

Helevetica: Massimo Vignelli

New York City Subway Diagram
2008

Bloomingdales Graphic Program
1972

Knoll International
1966

Fort Worth Art Museum Graphic Program Poster
1976

Poltranova Saratoga Furniture Design
1964

Massimo Vignelli's work consists of furniture design, public signage, package design as well as many other works. Vignelli was quoted as saying, "If you can design one thing, you can design everything."

Saul Bass Poster Designs

Mascot Over the Last Few Decades.

Tokidoki
Created 2005

Donkey Kong
1981

Toucan Sam, Fruit Loops
1963

Gustav Klimit (1862 - 1918)

Stoclet Frieze : Expectation

1905 - 09

Gustav Klimit (1862 - 1918)

Out of all the paitings I found by Gustav Klimit, this one is my favorite. I liked this because of it's bright color usage and that it encorporate a hieroglyphics feel to it. The pattern in the background is also something that stood out to me in the painting.

Water Serpents II

1904 - 07

Gustav Klimit (1862 - 1918)

This piece reminded me of the water sirens from The Odyssey by Homer. If you look closely, you notice that painting has four females intertwined. I found that to be interesting about it because it draws the viewer in and makes them curious to know the meaning behind the portrait.

Medizin (Hygieia)

1900 - 07

Gustav Klimit (1862-1918)

What I like about this piece is that it looked very greek metholical-like the use of color and spiral/circular shapes used on the dress of the woman featured in the painting.

Klimit is part of the Vienne Art Nouveau movement.

Saul Bass: Logo Designs

Quaker
Designed in 1971

AT&T Bell System
Designed in 1969

AT&T Bell System
Designed in 1983

Source: Logo Design Love
Artist: Saul Bass

Bass had great influence, particularly on American advertising as Bass is responsible for many well-known corporate logos of the '60s. For example: Girl Scouts of America, United Airlines, the ones featured above and many others.

I found this information compelling being that I am an advertising major and have recently began discussing logo design in some of my courses.