Art Deco and how its developed

Art deco was born out of France and spread worldwide very quickly due to a exhibition that exceeded numbers into the millions that came to view the experience. Many were entrepreneurs that came from various countries and continants to not steal, but view and develop the styles they saw and take them back to were they came from.

It was born in the early 1920's till the late 1930's. Many and almost every peice created in this style of Art Deco were many things out of the following;

Streamline
Organic "Look"
Geometric
Speedy and "Fast"

Many famous artist impressionist were also born from this period such as René Lalique who grew on to creat many great, iconic designs we see in todays lifestyle. So in many ways, although the period 'finished' in 1939, it in a way didn't due tho the way that many designs are still even nower days influenced by the styles.

Below are examples of an origional, and a re-interpritation of the "Art Deco" style.

Origional;
By francis jourdain





Re-interpritation;

By IKEA furnature designers today

 

How have title sequences developed? 1950's-2000's

Here are some out-standing examples of brilliant title sequences over the last 50 or so years.

• 1950's Rawhide - Black & White, Slow, Not much info, Simple and Repetertive.

• 1960's Twilight Zone - Much better quality than ever before, But still black & white but improved typeography.

         

• 1970's Starky & Hutch - Finally colour, Faster, Much more defined and Very dramatic.

         

•  1980's The A Team - Iconic music theme, Quality graphics and Iconic typogpraghy also.

         



• 1990's Desperate Houswives - Extremely artistic, fancy type, increased quality and More iconic themed music.

           

• 2000's Avatar - Stunning 3D Grapghics!

           

Art Noveou and the Edo period - Around AD 1829-33

The Great Wave

This wave etching is created by Hokusai and is sometimes classed as the single most famous woodblock prints of this Japanese era of art prints. It is a key part to the series calloed the 'Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji'.

Several thousands of this print were printed, and with it being a early on etch-print style it is very much so just full of blocked colour, and the outlining always came out thick too.

The immediate focal point for which the veiwers eyes fall upon once looking at the picture is typically just under the center of the top wave beneth the peak.

The Great Wave

The Industrial Revolution - How it improved the adverage way of life

Revolutionary Inventions and key change factors of this period of time :

• Steam Engines -

1. Trains
2. Boats
3. Machinery such as Glass melting or sweing machines

A Steam Train

• Agriculture -

1. Farming
2. Mining
3. Building transport pathways
4. Bridges
5. Cannals for the new boats

• "The birth of the media" -

1. For example, Jack the Ripper (1888) with the "Whitechaple Murders" was splashed all over the papers. These papers wer then able to be sent further than ever before due to the new improvements in transport and new pathways for the transport to follow. (Paper shown below)

Original London paper on Jack the Ripper

The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello - (2005)

A 100+ word small essay

This "short film" was created in 2005, and has been nominated for a big academy award. The making of this film is a form of "stop-motion" where silhouettes of figurines and such are filmed which makes them darker than the rest of the scenes they are in. That silhouetting effect also adds to sense of gloomy, terror and darkness. The whole movie is pretty much shot in a cinematic sepia range of colours. I'm not sure if that was choice or if it was the only way because I haven't seen anything quite like this myself before. The film also appears quite jolty when it comes to the characters-figurines. This is a side effect of silhouetting them but I feel it also adds to the effect the film has. The film’s title is also known as "The World of Jasper Morello". In my opinion, all of these effects and methods of creating the short film work fantastically, and I haven’t seen anything quite like it personally.



Poster for the short film