Journal #5: Art Nouveau and The Genesis of Twentieth-Century Design

Czech born artist, Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939), was drastically important to the art nouveau style in France. Mucha moved to Paris at age 27, where he rose to fame after printing a poster for a play on New Year’s Day. One of his most famous projects was his women project, his women that he drew had no nationally, age, or period attached to them. The Victorians rejected the art, and called the hair he drew too look like, “noodles and spaghetti.” Ironically, the hair he drew became a hallmark image for the Victorian Era. When Czechoslovakia became independent in 1917, Mucha returned home and his work became influenced by the history of his people. He died a few months after being arrested and interrogated by Gestapo in 1939 when Germany partitioned Czechoslovakia

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Journal #10: David Tartakover

Israeli graphic designer, David Tartakover, was born in Haifa(so was I) in 1944. He was since then opened his own studio in Tel Aviv. He specializes in different aspects of visual communications, specifically Israeli culture and politics. Since 1976, He is a senior lecturer in the Visual Communication Department of the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem. He is also a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI), and president of the Graphic Designers Association of Israel (GDAI). Some of his most notable work, is the Peace Now logo in 1978, and became a bumper sticker. This was the first political bumper sticker in Israel. Tartakover's mural in Tel Aviv, Israel Peace Now logo, 1978 https://www.tartakover.co.il/

Journal #4: Victorian Graphic Design

The application of photography to printing and the invention of photography is crucial to graphic design and communication. The camera is modeled after the human eye, where the pupil dilates to let in light and constricts when the lighting is overexposed, like a camera lens. Photography was a huge part of the Victorian Era. The Victorians loved the Gothic style. By the 1850s, Victorian era and word started to mean the spirit, culture and the moral standards of society at that time. Graphic design in the Victorian Era was influenced by social standards and values of that time, such as sentiment, nostalgia, beauty. Beauty and nostalgia were represented with printed images of kids, young women, puppies, and flowers. The sentiment was symbolized with images of the home, religion, and patriotism.

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