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Will H Bradley (1868-1962) was an illustrator and designer within the art nouveau movement. He set up the Wayside Press in December 1897. There he worked as an illustrator, editor, designer, typographer and press manager on many publications, including a periodical called Bradley: His Book. It contained stories, posters and sketches and could perhaps be considered as an early zine. His most famous piece was his first poster for the publication The Chap Book, also known as The Twins.
He continued to work as freelance graphic designer and in 1954 he won an award from the American Institute of the Graphic Arts (AIGA), which is regarded as one of the highest honours a graphic designer can achieve.
Further reading link: http://www.willbradley.com/
Picture link: http://images.lunaimaging.com/images/AMICA/Size0/D8003/mia_.21693c.jpg
Jessica Barton
Koloman Moser (b. 30 March 1868, d. 18 October 1918)
A Viennese artist and graphic designer, Moser was a key member of both the Vienna Secession movement and the Wiener Werkstätte, which he also
co-founded (along with such people as Gustav Klimt & Josef Hoffmann).
As part of the idealistic groups he was part of he worked on the
creation of new and improved objects for everyday life, from stamps to
tablewear to jewelry. The collective’s overall aim was to create an
ideal for for all art and design work to follow, a ‘Gesamtkunstwerk’
or total artwork.
Gilbert Townshend
References:
http://woka.com/en/info/assosiation/wiener-werkstaette.asp
(b. 19/06/1880 Martinsville, Ohio — d. 25/12/1956 Hingham, Massachusetts) William Addison Dwiggins was an American graphic designer who worked in a wide range of communication fields such as, book design, typography, calligraphy, lettering and illustration. He himself is the first person to use the term ‘Graphic Design’ when talking about his work; it was only after the Second World War was over that the term was widely used. WAD, as he used to call him self, is well know for his development of type.
He designed many fonts still used today like the Electra Font, Elante Font, Metrolite Font Family, New Caledonia Font and ITC New Winchester Font.
Respect was also given to him after he designed a sans serif font that people liked. William Addison Dwiggnis enjoyed to wood carve and decided to create a marionette theater in his garage. In his early days he also used to learn from and collaborate with Frederic Goudy.
Vassliy Zavialov
Bibliography:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Addison_Dwiggins
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/William_Addison_Dwiggins.aspx
http://www.facebook.com/pages/William-Addison-Dwiggins/88000889621
http://www.linotype.com/373/williamadwiggins.html
http://giam.typepad.com/100_years_of_illustration/images/2007/09/10/wad_1955.jpg
http://mailonsunday.livejournal.com/42443.html
René Azcuy (b. 1939 — Havana, Cuba) is one of the most influential designers of the cartel design in Cuba- Mexico. He started making posters, logos, designs for CD covers, brochures and press headlines; achieved the conceptual communication in his own initial language and today he is one of the role models in the school of Cuban Graphics.
From the decade of 1970's René obtained a proper style — black and white images, it featured photographs in high contrast, the first closed and first framings. All this perhaps influenced by his previous studies in art (the National School of Fine arts “San Alejandro“ and Higher institute of learning of Arts and crafts, Havana, Cuba) and his closeness in the cinematographic area since his foundation (ICIAC "The Cuban Film Institute").
As a designer he presented two personal exhibitions, which are "The Hands of Azcuy" Are Salted by Rubén Martínez Villena, Gallery UNEAC, Havana, Cuba, 1977 and "Affiches de René Azcuy" Maison de L'Amérique Latine, Paris, France, 1988. From 1964 he also took part in multiple collective exhibitions in Cuba, Mexico, Columbia and Italy.
He is currently one of the most important professors in the BUAP (Civil Guard Autonomous University of Puebla) and also in the Institute of Top Studies in Architecture and Design in the same city.
In 2009 the number of contemporary cuban designers (Osvaldo Gaona,Elmer Sosa, Hugo Rojas) organized an exhibition "CONCEP70" to celebrate 70 years of life full of knowledge, concept and love to the design of René Azcuy.
Image: Stolen Kisses. The red stamp of the flat area of color on the extended photographic detail represents an extraordinary concept.; something similar happens with the red little flags that cubans shows to the world to celebrate the day of the workpeople.
Links: http://osvaldogaona.blogspot.com/2008/10/serie-la-calle.html (Osvaldo Gaona blog)
http://gaonadiseno.blogspot.com/ (70's exhibition blog)
by Alena Zaynullina
Georges Auriol (1863 – 1938) was a French Writer, Poet, Graphic Designer and Painter closely connected to the Art Nouveau movement that peaked at the start of the 20th Century. Although important in shaping the editorship of the ‘Chat Noir’ newsletter, a periodical accompanying the most famous Cabaret bar of the movement, Auriol’s single greatest achievement was the Auriol Typeface, created for the type foundry Deberny & Peignot. It’s flowing, organic forms, influenced by Japanese calligraphy, were typical of Art Nouveau, and quickly found use across Posters, Book Covers, and the Paris Metro, leading to Steven Heller’s assessment of Auriol as the, ‘quintessential Art Nouveau designer’.
References:
Linotype (2009) [online]. [Accessed on the 26th October 2009], http://www.linotype.com/654/georgesauriol.html
Heller, S. and Filli, L, Typology, Chronicle Books, 1999.
Will H Bradley (1868-1962) was an illustrator and designer within the art nouveau movement. He set up the Wayside Press in December 1897. There he worked as an illustrator, editor, designer, typographer and press manager on many publications, including a periodical called Bradley: His Book. It contained stories, posters and sketches and could perhaps be considered as an early zine. His most famous piece was his first poster for the publication The Chap Book, also known as The Twins.
