Italian Art Deco: Graphic Design between the Wars

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A sophisticated addition to Chronicle Books' popular design library, this lavishly illustrated volume offers a unique survey of Italian commercial graphic design during a period of both creative artistic vitality and extreme political turmoil. The first English-language book to showcase the bold typography and streamlined imagery of modern Italian design motifs on comercial products of the day, this fascinating and important resource for designers, history buffs, and collectors includes a discussion of the Futurist influence on the Italian Art Deco style and the success of such individualized expression despite a ruthless Fascist regime.

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Great reference.......2002-10-10

This is one great book for coming up with Deco designs. It really helps to make us visual types think in the Art Deco way.

Italian Art Deco.......2000-06-12

Steven Heller and Louise Fili have captured the essence of the Art Deco era Italian style with clear, crisp, and colorful graphics. The quality of the book itself with it's quality paper stock and thick bendable hard/soft cover is outstanding. The quality of the curation and academic research was excellent. I will cherish this book always.

Art Deco Designs CD-ROM and Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)

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An Excellent Collection

Art Deco Designs CD-ROM and Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Marty Noble
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ASIN: 0486996638

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Rich archive of crisply rendered line drawings used in textiles, fashions, jewelry, and domestic accessories of the 1920s and '30s, selected from works by Erté, Edgar Brandt, Jeanne Paquin, and Paul Manship, among others. These distinctive designs will add a dazzling touch of the Jazz Age wherever they're applied. 213 black-and-white illustrations.

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An Excellent Collection.......2007-08-30

This book was exactly what I needed. It has tons of clip-art from the Art Deco era. I don't know why but it seemed harder for me to find a good compilation of Deco images, than it is to find Art Nouveau.

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Trademarks of '20s & '30s
Tyler Blik , and Erik Baker
Manufacturer: Chronicle Books
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ASIN: 0877013608

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Nowhere were the glamour and wit of these years more evident than in the output of America's graphic designers. . . They have left us their legacy in the simplicity, the clean line work, the fun of these trademarks. . . Once the viewer gets past the grin-and-giigle stage of seeing this collection, there is much to learn about how one idea can be communicated in one small design or illustration. -- Step-by-Step Graphics

Deco Espana: Graphic Design of the Twenties and Thirties

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Visually Appealing

Deco Espana: Graphic Design of the Twenties and Thirties
Steven Heller , and Louise Fili
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ASIN: 0811812170

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The latest volume in our popular Art Deco series, Deco Espana represents a rich and virtually unknown treasure of graphic design history, detailing the defining characteristics that distinguish the Mediterranean style Spanish Art Deco design from that of classic French Deco or streamlined American Deco design. From its appearance in the political posters of the Spanish Civil War to its use in advertising the post-war automobile and travel industries, and from its emergence in the packaging of Spanish wine and cosmetics to its brilliant use in the graphic posters of the Spanish theater, the Art Deco style puts on a lively show in Deco Espa–a. This book not only represents an important area of graphic design study, but signifies an entire era of Spanish cultural history.

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Visually Appealing.......2000-04-14

I am a student studying graphic design and found this book to be very helpful in my classes. There are many fully colored pictures of the actually art work and limited text. I enjoy this because I am a visual person and learn by seeing. This book is by far one of the best I have seen.

Art Nouveau Display Alphabets: 100 Complete Fonts (Dover Pictorial Archives)

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Art Nouveau Display Alphabets: 100 Complete Fonts (Dover Pictorial Archives)
Dan X. Solo
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ASIN: 0486233863

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100 complete fonts from Solo-type Typographers Catalog: upper and lower cases, alternate forms, swash forms, numerals, secondaries. Whiplash, organic, cursive, Orientalized, other styles. Beautiful, wide range of type fluidities suggest elegance, originality, grace, nearness to nature. Most not elsewhere.

New Art Deco Borders and Motifs (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)

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William Rowe
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ASIN: 0486247090

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This collection of 72 full-page black-and-white Art Deco designs offers artists and craftspeople royalty-free, ready-to-use borders, frames, and motifs. Abstract geometric forms contrast with foliate and floral elements in dynamic designs. Useful in graphic arts, textile and upholstery design and more.

127 Authentic Art Deco Patterns in Full Color (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)

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Great variety
Beautiful And Inspiring
127 Authentic Art Deco Designs

127 Authentic Art Deco Patterns in Full Color (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)
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ASIN: 048628249X

Book Description

Reprinted from rare portfolios circa 1920: patterns combining flowers, fruits, leaves, butterflies, birds, animals, and people in bold, exotic designs.

Customer Reviews:

Great variety.......2007-05-08

This book is great for giving an all around idea of art deco textile, and art detail. However, I would have liked more information on the designers, years these were popular, the artists, etc.

Beautiful And Inspiring.......2002-07-12

This is an excellent selection of colorful graphic patterns in the deco genre, and should be a useful and inspiring resource to designers, students, and afficianados.

127 Authentic Art Deco Designs.......2000-03-31

This book represents early Art Deco Designs, perhaps even late Art Nouveau Designs. The strikingly remarkable feature is the color combinations, which show the early flavor of the period. These designs were taken from two portfolios of 1920's artists.

There is a full range of figures from antalope and mountian lion to flowers and people. Some of which are highly intricate and ornate, while others verge on the primative. As a source book for a decorative artist (me), it gives subject and theme for any period compositions which can be mounted.

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Art Deco buildings, with their highly ornate facades and dramatic forms, are a vital part of our surroundings. The movie theaters, hotels, apartment blocks, and other landmarks of the twenties and thirties preserve the visual identity of this unmistakable style in towns and cities the world over. This exploration of Art Deco architectural design embraces many different times and places in its visual and verbal account of the movement's origins, development, and influence. Various types of architecture, the author explains, were termed Art Deco, and their antecedents were mixed and often surprising: Arts and Crafts, fin-de-sicle Vienna, Cubism, Expressionism, and the Bauhaus. Art Deco's sheer exuberance ensured its success across the globe, and it adapted to the most diverse situations, as shown by examples ranging from offices in Europe and gas stations in America to maharajahs' palaces in India and imperial dwellings in Japan. Public buildings of all kinds--whether fountain or state capitol, skyscraper or bus terminal--bear witness to its decades of popularity. Despite its historic pedigree, Art Deco design is very much alive today. Post-modernism has borrowed its repertoire of motifs and idioms to produce what, in some cases, amounts to a full-blown revival. Many of the original buildings still survive, now restored to their former glory, to be admired and enjoyed. Sumptuously illustrated, this unrivaled study provides a comprehensive guide to the best loved of all twentieth-century architectural styles.

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Icart
S. Michael Schnessel
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Louis Icart, in his renewed popularity, has become the current symbol of the Art Deco period, for he captured the Parisian art world during the 1920s and 30s. Icart's light-hearted etchings, impressionistic oil paintings and erotic watercolors became sought-after treasures both in France and in America. In keeping with the present Art Deco revival and the interest in art of the period between the two world wars, this is a complete, extensively researched study of the life and works of Icart. A rich sampling of the artist's etchings is presented with detailed descriptions of his engraving techniques; representative oil paintings show the development of his style as well as the forces that influenced him. A generous selection from his watercolors, illustrated books, lithographs, and erotica is included.

French Modern: Art Deco Graphic Design (Chronicle's Art Deco Design Series , Vol 5)

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Buy This One; Buy 'Em All

French Modern: Art Deco Graphic Design (Chronicle's Art Deco Design Series , Vol 5)
Steven Heller , and Louise Fili
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The fifth volume in Chronicle's Art Deco design series, French Modern is a sophisticated celebration of this exceedingly popular design period. As the birthplace of Art Deco, France offers a unique perspective on this extraordinary artistic movement. From fashion and wine to culture and industry, all aspects of French life in the '20s and '30s are displayed and interpreted in this rich compendium of highly stylized designs, including magazines, posters, brochures, and retail packages. Stunningly illustrated with a wealth of original artifacts, some never before seen in the United States, this affordably priced and exquisitely designed book will be an essential acquisition for collectors and designers alike.

Customer Reviews:

Buy This One; Buy 'Em All.......2003-02-04

This is another first-rate collection of deco commercial art that you wouldn't see elsewhere, and it proves that graphic design was in a kind of golden age at the time. The work here is rich and appealing, as in all the books of the series, and if you're a designer, you'll find it very inspiring as well, and a handy reference tool.

The book itself is a fairly small paperback, though very nicely printed on glossy paper. The work inside this and other volumes in the series certainly justifies a larger, hardcover treatment.

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