Art Deco Designs in Todays Designs

Access to HE: Art & Design 2013 Word count: 2716 Has Art Deco influenced the designs of today?

By Craig Lee Jones

Access to HE: Art & Design 2013 Word count: 2716 Has Art Deco influenced the designs of today?

By Craig Lee Jones

List of pictures cited in this essay

Page 4 Eiffel Tower with Citroen logo in 1925
Page 5 Howard Carter excavating Tutankhamen in 1922
Page 6 Busby Berkeley choreography
Page 7 French Line travel poster of the Ile de France
Page 8 Mies van de Rohe Barcelona chair
Page 9 Four Seasons of Las Vegas bedroom
Page 10 Chrysler Airflow Coupe in cream & Rolls Royce Art Deco Poster
Page 11 Marcel Bouraine’s (1928) Papillion a winged figure in a jade glass
& A view of the Art Deco inspired cockpit of the Rolls Royce
Page 12 Frank Lloyd Wright’s Falling Water 1935
Page 13 BioShock Front Cover
Page 14 L. A. Noire Cover

Has Art Deco influenced the designs of today?
Introduction

Art Deco has fueled, influenced, inspired and guided most of the designs we consider as ‘modern’ or ‘simplistic’ today. One has to look at a brief overview of Art Deco, including the ancient arts and history, also what was occurring during the movement and the world’s biggest influences. The Art Deco era made way for mass culture people doing or wanting the same things. It was also the birth of the mass production of luxury goods not just for the wealthy, but also for the general people. One also has to look at what elements designers of today have used from the Art Deco era to create new, simplistic and modern

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