The Art Deco Design Movement

Cruising down Marine Drive in Mumbai, you would see a lot of Art Deco styled buildings much like the many picture you may see of buildings in Miami, typically hotels etc; all of them overlooking the sea, some well preserved, some rather seedy and ramshackle looking. Only Miami has more art deco buildings along the seafront than Mumbai. It was such a popular design mode of its time and such a distinctive and recognizable style that remnants of this style are visible at least in their residuary form all over the world:

  • Furniture
  • Appliances
  • Buildings
  • Automobiles
  • Jewelry
  • Fashion
  • Painting, graphic arts and film as well.

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Since its first publication in 1969, Pioneers of Modern Typography has been the standard guide to the avant-garde origins of modern graphic design and typography. In this essential reference, Herbert Spencer shows how new concepts in graphic design in the early decades of the twentieth century had their roots in the artistic movements of the time in painting, poetry, and architecture. Spencer examines the “heroic” period of modern design and typography, the beginnin… More >>

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