Designers and Design Movements

Here is a brief list of well-known movements, and designers, who followed them. I will be choosing one of these as the subject of my time capsule.

Art Nouveau

Typically, art nouveau is fluid and organic with cool decorative languor. Much ornamented with smooth contours and flat, 'one speed' sinuous sense of balance and design.

Better known designers include, Toulouse Lautrec

"was a French painter, printmaker, draftsman, and illustrator, whose immersion in the colorful and theatrical life of fin de siècle Paris yielded an œuvre of exciting, elegant and provocative images of the modern and sometimes decadent life of those times. Toulouse-Lautrec is known along with Cézanne, Van Gogh, and Gauguin as one of the greatest painters of the Post-Impressionist period."

Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_de_Toulouse-Lautrec

1910s flat colours

Still flowing and long lines and clear handmade origin - clearly designed but less highly finished than the seamless surface of art nouveau. Flat colours and simple shapes with clear messages whilst retaining a decorated and handmade feel.

Known designers include, William Nicholson and James Pryde.

"He was a student at Hubert von Herkomer's art school. Nicholson's partnership with James Pryde, his brother-in-law, was conspicuous for striking graphical work and woodcuts—they were known as the Beggarstaff Brothers ^[2] , and their poster work was significant historically."

Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Nicholson_%28artist%29

Constructivists

Asymmetric, reduced colour sets such as red, black and white, high contrast, machine aesthetic - Russian revolutionary work.

Known artists include, The Stenberg brothers, Luibov Popva, El Lizzitsky, Rodchenko, Solomon Telingater and Anton Lavinsky.

"Constructivism was an artistic and architectural movement that originated in Russia from 1919 onward which rejected the idea of "art for art's sake" in favour of art as a practice directed towards social purposes. Constructivism as an active force lasted until around 1934, having a great deal of effect on developments in the art of the Weimar Republic and elsewhere, before being replaced by Socialist Realism."

Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivism_%28art%29