2 Images of the week (sorry this is so late)

1.) This image I found on flickr and it is supposed to be a photo for Victoria's Secret, but it's in the Art Nouveau style! You can see the several qualities of Art Nouveau in the piece because of the noodle-like hair drawn, bright colors, use of women in the photo and most of the space was filled.  The typeface is curvy and has a handwritten quality to it. Although it is obviously a more modernized version of art nouveau, I found that it was a perfect example of the things we were talking about in class. We have been studying several different styles throughout our class time and I think it's cool that we can distinguish these styles and find people still using them today. I personally was a fan of this style and I thought it would be neat to share this.

2.) This image to right I also found when I was 

searching the internet. I thought it was interesting that this designer would be using the cubist style for one of his series of skateboard deck designs. The reason these could be considered cubist is the typeface especially, which is very geometric as well as the lines found in the corners of the deck. It is very simple, but very clever how his logo typeface is pretty much cut away from your basic geometric shapes. It relates to what we are discussing in class because like I stated above, we have been talking about how designs have changed and evolved over time and cubism happened to be one of them. These styles of design that seem to have faded and passed, style show up in the strangest places sometimes, even on skateboard decks. I like that we can pick out these styles influence easily in todays society after discussing each of the qualities throughout class.