1930's Art Deco

The Art Deco movement started in the 1920's and was more prominent in the 1930's. It was first exhibited at the French Exhibition of Glasswear and then became a mainstream sensation in America and Great Britian. America at the time had an obsession with speed whicch then  further developed Art Deco into a more streamline and aerodynamic form. Alot of the architecture was inspired by this movement because of the organic forms and was used for more of a aesthetic choice. Art Deco drew most of its inspiration from the ancient Egyptians and Aztec forms, this was mainly a decorative movement unlike most art movement which are political or philosophically driven.
This poster is a perfect example of Art Deco, the geometric shapes used to create images, the use of flat colours but at the same time using different shades of said colour to create a gradient or a shade on the image. Alot of bright colours are used in Art Deco based posters and art pieces, as the reason is to attract and draw the viewers eye into the piece of art.

This is an original poster from the 1930's inspired by Art Deco

Utopia And Dystopia

I chose Dante's Inferno as the Dystopia this was made in the 14th century, these were etchings made on metal plates illustrated by Gustov Dores. The book was of the nine circles of hell within earth, each circle depicts the journey our souls we would suffer for what ever sin we commited. Every circle gets worse and worse.
Even though this is of a more religious type of Dystopia this is still something that is embeded into our heads, the unknown of what may happen when we all die.

Utopia And Dystopia

So on today's topic we have chosen Utopia and Dystopia, for "Utopia" i would have to say the ideas created by Sir Thomas Moore presented in his book "Utopia" as the name suggests it is of his perfect world a peninsula 15 miles wide. The idea of having a land with no rules or crimes is pretty much every ones Utopia, most of his ideas went away from the teachings of the catholic church in which he was raised. In a way Utopia is sometimes rebelling against from what we have been taught.

3rd Typography

For my final choice of good typography is of the title for the Avatar movie. I like the use of what looks like tribal font, it isnt clean and crisp, the lines aremt perfectly straight but the font is easliy able to be depicted. The colours used link in with the movie so it all blends well together.

2nd Typography

For my second choice of good typography i chose this banner which is full of different emotions, the way each emotion is written is in the style the emotion presents its self.

1st Typography

This is my first choice of good typography, it a banner for deviant art. I like the use of the words that create the "d" and "A" the words themselves are of the different types of art and emotions the art presents.

Industrial Revolution & Steam Punk

The industrial revolution started in 1750 till 1850, beginning in UK the revolution started to spread throughout the Western Europe, North American and Japan and eventually the world.   During this period of time many changes occurred in different areas of the working industry; agriculture, manufacturing, mining, transportation and technology. All these industries had an effect on the social, economic and cultural conditions of life. 


The start of the industrial revolution was also the starting point of the idea of what the future would hold. That is when steam punk started, the ideas of what was being created during the industrial revolution was further "evolved" to create the final ideas of steam punk. There were many ideas that the industrial revolution fuelled, like the airships, a flying machine most known to be a ship but made of  cogs and powered by steam as they were the materials used at the time.