CCS1 VISCOMMS

A timeline blog for CCS1 Visual Communications @ London Met

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2000

An iPod silhouette ad with the tagline: “10,000 songs in your pocket. Mac or PC.

Shows the new and improved boost of products, materialistic and more accessible and ease for everyone. 

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1990

Protestors block the delivery of toxic PCB waste to a landfill in Afton, North Carolina, 1982. Ricky Stilley

https://www.nrdc.org/stories/environmental-justice-movement

An example of protests for environmental justice

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1980

TitleBetacom Cristal CollectionMuseum of Design in Plastics: Arts University Bournemouth ManufacturerBetacom Datecirca 1980-1989 DescriptionA Betacom Cristal telephone circa 1980s. This telephone is made of pink injection moulded polypropylene with a clear acrylic surround, and an extruded PVC coated wire. It has cream coloured push buttons including a recall and a mute button https://vads.ac.uk/digital/collection/MODIP/id/4146/rec/3

The telephone represents the sleek and glamourous form of Art Deco that caters to wealth. Making modern and usual objects fashionable items, whilst sticking to the 80′s aesthetic.

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1970

Don Sturkey, Negroes and a few whites picket Charlotte Department Stores, elderly woman wearing a sash, Charlotte, NC 1960; 9 X 13 3/8 inches Courtesy of Don Sturkey Photographic Materials #P0070, North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Library

https://eusa.org/exhibition/i-am-a-man/

Protests for Black justice

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1960

Title1960s Psychedelic Yellow-lime Dress CollectionArts University Bournemouth Design Collection CreatorArts University Bournemouth Description1960s psychedelic yellow and lime green, with pink, chiffon dress. https://vads.ac.uk/digital/collection/DCADB/id/1546/rec/4

Dress that would have been worn in the 60′s. Has a very colourful and Ludacris print that reflects the youthful social opposion at the time along with the significant increase of drug use.

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1950

Jaguar XK150 – October 1957

Jaguar XK150 – October 1957

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a15353993/advertising-the-1950s-these-60-year-old-car-ads-are-undeniably-cool/

Showed excessive consumerism during the 50′s after the destruction of WW2. Fuelled consumerism and countries economy.

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1930-1940′s

https://vads.ac.uk/digital/collection/IWMPC/id/1885/rec/4

TitleBritons CollectionImperial War Museum: Posters of Conflict - The Visual Culture of Public Information and Counter Information Creator Date of Birth1882 Creator Date of Death1933 ArtistLeete, Alfred PrinterVictoria House Printing Co Ltd, London EC Associated PersonKitchener, Horatio (Field Marshal Earl) Date1914 https://vads.ac.uk/digital/collection/IWMPC/id/1885/rec/4

Example of Propaganda that would have been used during this time

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1920′s

Female hand holding cocktail glass with splash. Art Deco (1920 s style) vintage invitation template design for drink list, bar, menu, glamour event, thematic wedding, jazz party flyer. Vector art

https://www.dreamstime.com/female-hand-holding-cocktail-glass-splash-art-deco-female-hand-holding-cocktail-glass-splash-art-deco-s-style-vintage-image114747014

Art Deco- fashionable, glamourous, was a way to escape WW1 and push wealth and social status

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1910′S

Mercedes-Simplex models, 1904 - 1910

https://mercedes-benz-publicarchive.com/marsClassic/en/instance/ko/Mercedes-Simplex-models-1904---1910.xhtml?oid=5891

1910′S Car, shows industrialisation

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Love is in the air

Bansky, activist and political wall painter since 1990s, introduced in 2003  ‘Love is in the air’ to Jerusalem city as a pacific protest  in favor of Palestinian rights against the war.

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-6-iconic-works-banksy

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The Simpson

Simpson is a cartoon created by Matt Groaning  around 1987 that represents morally and politically the American families in U.S.A.

The Simpson become very popular in the country, and all over the word, when Fox Network Broadcast Television introduce it as a controversial animated TV series by the early 1990s. 

https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Simpsons

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Pater Sato

Japanese freelacer illustrator of Fashion books and album covers.  

‘Satomasochism’ 1980

https://dangerousminds.net/comments/satomasochism_the_sci-fi_erotica_of_pater_sato

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Ralph Angus McQuarrie

Was a conceptual designer and illustrator that collaborate with George Lucas in the creation of the Fanta-Sci world of Star Wars.

1975

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The Matrix

Poster Design from Victor Moscoso, printed materials, 1967

Moscoso was the first rock poster artist  that used photo collage.

https://eportfolios.capilanou.ca/marinasubach/2019/02/26/1960-1970-departures-and-rumblings-victor-moscoso/

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Pop Art

Popular Art is an artistic movement that was present in England and then in America in the lates 1950′s.

Most known as ‘Pop Art’, was  born as a movement inspired by the rising economic/ consumeristic world of America after the Great Depression.

https://blog.artsper.com/en/a-closer-look/8-things-know-pop-art/

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The sphere

M.C. Eschere,The sphere,1935

Self portrait in lithograph

The type of art from Eschere follows symmetric/mathematic rules within geometric forms and graphic techniques.

https://mcescher.com/

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Aveux not avenus, planche 3

Claude Cahun was a surrealistic photographer that dealt themes as gender and sexuality through the analogue process of gelatin silver printing and collages techniques.

here an example from 1929-1930.

https://artblart.com/2012/05/29/exhibition-entre-nous-the-art-of-claude-cahun-at-the-art-institute-of-chicago/

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