Paul Laffoley

Paul Laffoley (born August 14, 1940) is a U.S. artist and architect. As an architect, Laffoley worked for 18 months on design for the World Trade Center Tower II. As a painter, his work is usually classified as visionary art or outsider art. Most of Laffoley’s pieces are painted on large canvases and combine words [...]

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Lubok

The lubok is the name of a specialized type of folk art, a colorful print made either from a woodcut or a copper engraving. This form of art became popular in Russia at the beginning of the sixteenth century during the reign of Ivan the Terrible. One of the earliest surviving lubki (1619-24) represents the [...]

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Russian Futurism (Cubo-Futurism)

Russian Futurism is accepted to emerge in 1912, lead by a Moscow based group called Hylaea. Even though Hylaea did not consider themselves as futurists around the time they were formed, by 1912 they issued a manifesto, “A Slap in the Face of Public Taste“  which was majorly influenced by Italian Futuristic movement. The Russian [...]

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Streamline Moderne

Streamline Moderne is a late Art Deco style branch which is mostly used for architectural design. Streamline or Modern in singular word is also used to signify the same design style. Streamline is mostly known with its curves, horizontal lines and nautical elements. It has reached its height pre WWII, in late 1930s. Streamline is [...]

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Ikko Tanaka

Ikko Tanaka (1930-2002) is one of the major names in Japan graphic design world who managed to link the traditional elements of Japanese Culture with visual language of modernism. His design works seem to be influenced by Suprematism‘s simple geometric shapes and bright colors fused with traditional elements of Japanese culture such as Japanese calligraphy. [...]

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Théophile Steinlen

Théophile Alexandre Steinlen (1859-1923) was a Swiss born French Art Nouveau painter and printmaker. Théophile Alexandre Steinlen began his career as an illustrator for several Parisian journals, including Le Chat Noir and Gil-Bas. Because he was an excellent draftsman, he was naturally attracted to etching and lithography, two media in which he could exercise this [...]

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Jugendstill – Jugend Magazine-

Jugend Magazine is a weekly cultural magazine from late 19th – early 20th Century Germany. Jugend Magazine’s style became influential in the launching of Art Nouveau movement in Germany and give this movement its German name: Jugendstill ( Youth Style) . The term is still used by contemporary graphic designers to refer to German art [...]

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