ART DECO 1925 -1940Art Deco was a popular international art design movement from 1925 until the 1940s, affecting the decorative arts such as architecture, interior design and industrial design, as well as the visual arts
such as fashion, painting, the graphic arts and film. At the time, this style was seen as elegant, glamorous, functional and modern.
ART DECO
ART DECO
ART DECOArt Deco features
included
•Use of very high quality materials
•Using certain shapes which are
commonly associated with
the Art Deco movement
ART DECO
ART DECO
ART DECO
ART DECO
A frequently used Art Deco motif
ART DECO
Radio’s were popular in the
20’s and 30’s and were often
designed in the Art Deco style. So
were cinema’s
Art Deco buildings are everywhere in Australian towns
and cities
ART DECO
A modern computer screen in an Art Deco style housing
Modernism-Bauhaus
1925 – Present Day
The Bauhaus design school
wanted to create a new “language of design” in its
furniture , architecture, textiles, and
products
Modernism-Bauhaus 1925 – Present Day
As the Bauhaus ideas became more popular and international
their style began to
evolve into modernism
Modernism-Bauhaus 1925 – Present Day
The aim of modernism was to avoid uneccesary decoration but
concentrate on the function of the object only
Modernism 1925 – Present Day
Buildings got more and more modern but also
plainer.
Modernism
Postmodern –Memphis design-1980-present day
In the 1980’s a group of
designers were so bored with
the plain modernist
architecture that they decided to
inject some colour and fun
into there range of furniture
Postmodern –Memphis design-1980-present day
They became known as the
Memphis design group
Postmodern –Memphis design-1980-present day
Memphis designs were
•Very colourful
•Sometimes used patterns
•Did not always
function but looked good
Postmodern –Memphis design-1980-present day
Postmodern –Memphis design-1980-present day
Postmodern –Memphis design-1980-present day
The memphis group did not last long but there ideas
became known as
postmodernism
Postmodernism 1980’s- present day
Other designers followed their lead
and started creating
more unusual designs
Postmodernism 1980’s- present day
“Anything goes”