c. 1925 – c. 1940
An international design movement blending modern materials, geometric forms, and decorative elegance across architecture, typography, and visual communication.
Art Deco was an international design movement blending modern materials and geometric forms. Its influence was seen in architecture, typography, and visual communication. In graphic design, it produced some of the most celebrated poster work of the twentieth century, including A.M. Cassandre‘s Normandie and Dubonnet campaigns and Joseph Binder‘s magazine covers. The archive documents Art Deco graphic design through scanned artefacts, designer profiles, and printed matter from the movement’s peak.
Movements, Advertising Design, Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content
Art Deco graphic design history: its Paris origins, key pioneers Cassandre, Carlu and McKnight Kauffer, and how the style evolved across Britain, Germany, Italy, Spain and the US.
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Advertising Design, Design Archive Feature, Designer Profiles, Members Only Content
Joseph Binder translated machine-age aesthetics into refined Art Deco compositions. These magazine covers have become prime examples of American commercial modernism.
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Design Archive Feature, Designer Profiles, Members Only Content, Poster Design, Regional Histories
Joseph Binder established his studio, Wiener Graphik, in Vienna. One of the first clients was the City of Vienna’s Music and Theater Festival, followed by many other posters and logos for clients in Austria and beyond.
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Advertising Design, Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content, Regional Histories
One of my standout collected pieces is Erberto Carboni’s Crociere 1937 “Italia” Brochure, created for the Societa di Navigazione’s 1937 cruise schedule.
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Advertising Design, Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content, Regional Histories
A country is never dead so long as it has an art. Austria is a proof of this maxim. Its liveliness since the war is liveliness which has displayed itself in the arts to a remarkable extent : it deserves the world's admiration and respect.
Read ArticleExplore designers central to this movement including A.M. Cassandre, Jean Carlu, and Charles Loupot. See also French graphic design history and 1920s graphic design history.
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Design Archive Feature, Designer Profiles, Ephemera, Members Only Content
Beyond his books, Dick Bruna's vivid colour and simplified forms found their way onto posters, packaging, murals and stamps, many of which feature in my growing collection.
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Members Only Content, Design Archive Feature, Designer Profiles
An article on Valentin Zietara , originally in German, published in Gebrauchsgraphik, 10, 1930, written by H K Frenzel translated by E. T. Scheffauer
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Members Only Content, Designer Profiles, Studios & Collectives
A 1903-1904 article on Die Steglitzer Werkstatt, originally in German, published in Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration, Vol. XIII, October 1903–March 1904.
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Regional Histories, Ephemera, Illustration, Members Only Content
A collected visual record of the Kanto, Chubu and Tohoku Lottery tickets.
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Designer Profiles, Members Only Content, Movements
April Greiman is known for her experimental approach to graphic design, her role in the development of Californian New Wave and being one of the first designers to fully embrace the computer in her work.
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Illustration, Ephemera, Members Only Content, Regional Histories
A collected visual record of the first eight years of Japan’s Rural Medical Care Promotion Lottery.
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