Victorian Era Advertising

During the Victorian Era corsets were a very popular fashion for women. Corsets had been accused over the centuries of causing every ailment to woman, so in this add they are advertising the "Health Corset." The health corset is like any other except it has elastic strings to allow for more comfort and freedom. In this advertisement it shows a young lady sporting the health corset. It is a hand drawn piece, and tends to lean towards realism. The rest of the add has added by a type machine. It seems as though the type goes in order of importance. It advertises "Healthy Women" in bold lettering at the top, and as your eye moves down the piece the type gets smaller as their becomes more details. The font changes to a finer type face for the more detailed part, and some of it is in italic as well. Overall I think that there were many type faces used in this particular piece ranging in boldness and importance. I thought that it was a very simplistic piece as there is one hand drawn women in the corner and the rest is type. Photo is from the collection of L. Hidic
http://www.corsetsandcrinolines.com/tidbits.php?index=9

Renaissance

This Renaissance border was inspired by William Morris. Morris was the founder of the Art Nouveau Arts and Crafts Movement in England. Employed by the renaissance of decorative arts, Morris studied medieval architecture at Oxford. I tried to follow Morris’s feel of emotional and mythical drawings. He was in touch with his country-garden nature side and much of this showed in his art. Morris’s romantic attachment to forests, gardens, flowers and birds has inspired artists for a century.  I as a result decided to draw leaves, to keep the idea of a mythical garden. The audience of this piece is towards anyone who enjoys the ‘mystic’ approach to art. In renaissance times this was perceived as very typical to have the decorated lettering and borders. It serves as a piece of art around the writing, which also a form of art at the time as it took hours of fine craftsmanship to produce the quality of work. 

Inspired By Ancient Hieroglyphics

Description: Anarchist nonconvention.

This is a spiralling design of text which includes the use of ancient egyptian hieroglyphic art. This includes a fish, an eye and a yinyang. It includes the elements of ancient hieroglyphics as well as the modernized aspect. I thought that it was a very interesting piece as it included readable text on the outermost ring and ancient hieroglyphics towards the middle. From words to pictures and simplicity, I thought that this was a very unique way to display the changes made in the history of hieroglyphics.