Timeline

Some of Design History key moments.

Art Deco poster design influence in contemporary poster design

Strong cubism references, use of geometrical forms

Streamlining; straight lines creating illusion of movement and speed

“Limited” colour palette; use of different tonalities of same colour to create solid forms

Use of different tones within same colour range to create shadows and 3D effects

Representation of speed on the vertical lines in the building

-The strobe lines shot towards the sky

-The train lines creating perspective and movement

Use of contrast, alternating dark colours with light colours - Dark Blues -> Reds and Oranges -> Dark Blues

-Dark Blues -> Yellows, Light Blues -> Dark Blues

Art Deco Poster from 1933

2010 "Black Swan" Posters

Ridley Scott Interview

Ridley Sctott's Interview

Follows his instincts, never has idea of what he's going to do next. But he always has two or three ideas of what to do next, but beyond he doesn't.

Art Student - Design background, uses painting (painters) as reference; Photography.

Errand boy -> New York -> BBC, straight to Graphic Design.

Philosophy: "The only risk in life is not to take risks.

Leaves BBC to direct commercials.

His film school was making commercials.

Was thinking of making films six years before it actually happened.

His first film "The Duellists" was meant to be for TV.

Ridley Scott

Industrial Revolution <-> Steam Punk

Industrial Revolution -> Machinery (Steam Engine)


SteamPunk -> Machinery Inspiration:
Films: The Mysterious Explorations of Jasper Morelo
Wild Wild West (bad film)


Early 20th Cent.
The old and the advanced sharing same environment
Noir, Gothic
Robot

Steampunk flash drive

Words/Reaction/Interpretation to film

Words/Reaction/Interpretation to Various title sequences to film and television that have utilized a rich sense of history in their opening minutes, including: Desperate Housewives, Se7en, Carnivale, True Blood.


(in order)
- TV series, Colonization, Meat, Pre-history, Evolution, Natural Resources, Blur, Falling, Colour, Movement, Energy, Personality, Action, Excitement, War, Imperialism, Architecture, Skyscraper, Renaissance, Egypt, Sardines, Can of Soup, Andy Warhol, Industrial Revolution, Klux Klux Clan -

Pop Art

Artistic movement (England mid 50s then USA late 50s)

Jack Kerouac

- Influenced Andy Warhol (leading figure in the Pop Art Movement)

- Beat Generation (Rebellion of teenagers against parents, society)

- Book “On the Road” - autobiography

Pop Art Movement - "Rebelling” against the so called fine arts by introducing everyday life elements to art. Making art popular.

Although it is called Pop Art, it wasn’t produced by masses of the population. It incorporated the different kinds of manifestations of the mass culture, culture made for the masses and produced by the greatest information devices/means.

The Movement incorporated elements generated by the industrial society and reveals two sides of its own. On one side it exposes the characteristics of a society deeply influenced and marked by the industrialization, by repeating and creating instantaneous icons and on the other side it challenges the limits of art creation by not making itself casted away, but by embracing and let itself be influenced by the events during its own time/period to generate its own creations.

Influenced by the “re-rise” of the big industrial societies that were deeply affected by WWII. Took as stage the major urban centres in GB and USA and used them as inspirational environments so its first artists could create their work.

Adverts, celebrity images, comic books are some examples.

The Movement attracted the attention of the big masses by inspiriting itself in elements that in theory weren’t considered/recognised as art by taking in consideration that it was an era deeply marked/influenced by consumption.

Big movie stars, comic books, modern cars, electronic devices and canned food were deconstructed by the artists so their impression and ideas could display the power of mass production and the short life period of what industrial age had to offer.

Andy Warhol