Well, respecting to one of my favourite characters in desing field I can say he is Alphonse Mucha. He was not formally a designer, he was more an illustrator, but his work is full of things that designers use in their works too, such as: composition, line, color, harmony, etc.Until now I thought he was french, but now I am looking for his biography, I realize he was from Czech Republic. Every day people learn new things...He was born in the city of Ivancice, Moravia on july 24th 1860. Since he was a child he liked drawing, and he knew that it was what he did very well.
Such as I said before, he was an illustrator, a painter and a poster/jewellery designer. His work is basically into the Art Nouveau Period in the Art's History. The style contains a lot of shapes, like flowers, patterns, sinuous lines, pastel colours and the woman like the centre of attention.
I love truly his work, because it is full of beauty and delicacy. It is very expressive and it has a lot of feminine meaning.
I remember last year when I knew his work, we had to do a composition using Art Nouveau, applied to an Oscar Wilde tale, and we had to paint it with watercolour. Here you can see it, if you want...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/see_the_sunrising/4195544311/
His work remind me Audrey Kawasaki =)
ReplyDeletevery cool illustrator.
oh yes! She follows his work line :)
ReplyDeleteI love Mucha!!!!!! It's very cool the graphic and very elegant...
ReplyDeleteI love Mucha too! I almost wrote my post about him! Finally I didn't so don't worry, haha. I like his work a lot. I really want a Gismonda on my bedroom wall!!!!
ReplyDeleteI think than Art nouveau is nice.. very delicated, soft, feminine and vaporous :)
ReplyDeleteI believe this kind of drawing was used on cigarettes packings.
Oh! and your watercolor composition is fantastic.