....and many cities more... classics by m. sasek

Classic Reading

Love

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Vintage Cover

Japanese Hair Styles, 1877

Playing Cards

by Andy Warhol

Chinese Graphic Design

 

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‘A charming and informative retrospective that should shine some light on an underappreciated facet of graphic design’– Grafik

From the Publisher:

From posters and advertisements to book covers and magazines, here is an astonishing collection of graphics, brilliantly uncovered by the authors, the long-forgotten sources, mostly in China itself, having survived innumerable upheavals: natural catastrophes, war and revolution.

Beginning with the basic traditions of Chinese graphics, the authors show how the writer and artist Lu Xun became the centre of cultural revival in the new China. We see Art Deco coming to China in the Shanghai Style; and the birth of a dynamic national design style, born of Russian Constructivism and China's own drive for new technology. The Socialist Realist art of Mao in turn adopted folk traditions to fuel the Revolutionary machine, while the continuing search for a new identity can be seen in the graphic images of protest from the summer of 1989.

A look into the future that never was....

This is the kind of house men dream about.
The Motorola television ads below ran in Life magazine and The Saturday Evening Post from 1961 until 1963. These, along with other print ads from the Golden Age of Television can be found in the book Window to the Future by Steve Kosareff. The illustrations posted here are all by Charles Schridde.

Paris Illustrated

Give me a break!

Jugend

Georg Hirth (1841-1916) launched the journal Jugend [Youth] in Munich in 1896 with the express goal of showcasing the newest trends in art and literature. Jugend was to be an “ecumenical” forum for creative expression, promoting no single school or artistic agenda. Nevertheless, the journal became so closely associated with a specific style of painting, drawing, and design – one characterized by precise, hard lines, undulating shapes, planes of color, stylized representation – that it lent its name to the style: Jugendstil (literally, Youth-style). Jugendstil (or Art Nouveau in French) swept aside nineteenth-century historicism and made room for freer forms of artistic expression. The journal was known for its illustrations as well as its critical and satirical texts. It counted prominent writers, such as Georg Simmel, among its many contributors. Jugend was published up to 1940, but its heyday ended with World War I.

Charles Dana Gibson - Illustrator

At the turn of the 20th century, Charles Dana Gibson's eponymous creation, "The Gibson Girl" embodied the new beauty ideal. Poised, patrician and romantic, she was America's Ragtime Pinup.











Source: www.gibson-girls.com