Dada

Dadaism flourished during WWI when many people felt like they needed to break away from control and tradition. Starting in Switzerland, this movement (although Dadaists would never call it a movement) influenced many aspects of life including poetry, art theory, art manifestos, literature, and then eventually in visual arts and graphic design. This movement was…

Arts and Crafts

Like most movements of art through history, the arts and crafts movement was a response to a change in the way people lived. During the late 19th century, the industrial revolution was creating an immense amount of steam powered machines to make life easier and cheaper. However, those who cherished the craftsmanship of art reacted…

Psychadelia

The Psychadelia art movement was especially prominent during the 1960’s and 1970’s. During this time, the baby boomers had all become young adults who were living in a time full of social and political issues that they started to fight against. They were free thinkers who believed in personal expression, nonconformity and sexual freedom. They…

Swiss Typography

Swiss Typography emerged from the teachings in the early 1900’s at Dessau Bauhaus where simple and clean type was embraced. It started to become especially popular, though, in the 1950’s, and is still extremely popular in the world of graphic design today. In fact, this style of design is most well known because of it’s…

Art Nouveau

Art Nouveau was a prominent style of art in the late 19th and early 20th century. The movement itself was a direct reaction to the thought that art was losing it’s sense of craftsmanship, and that hand made works of art were getting looked over or that there was no good work being produced. Because…

Bauhaus

The Bauhaus movement began in 1919 with the founding of the Bauhaus school in the city of Weimar. Walter Gropious was the founder, and decided the aim of the school would be to reunite creativity with the manufacturing of goods. The goal of this was the unify the arts within the material world. This style…