For designers, design enthusiasts, historians, and anyone curious about where this look came from and why it still resonates, this primer explores Art Deco\u2019s history, defining traits, and lasting impact across graphic design, web design, interior design, and pop culture. It\u2019s quite rare when a design trend has such a broad-based reach on much of what you encounter in the world, which is exactly why Art Deco remains worth understanding now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/span>The History of Art Deco and Art Nouveau<\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\nTo understand this design\u2019s roots, we have to go back to France in the late 19th century, when avant-garde influences including the Vienna Secession and Cubism were beginning to reshape taste. Around this time, France was a hotbed of burgeoning design-trend activity, with Art Nouveau<\/a> also popping up in this exciting era of great creativity. Essentially, we have the then-growing influence of so-called decorative artists to thank for what would eventually and officially turn into Art Deco.<\/p>\n\n\n\nDecorative artists were those who worked as designers of textiles, furniture, and other ornamentation; until 1875, they were just regarded as ordinary artisans. However, that year, they gained status when they were awarded recognized status with the distinction of \u201carts decoratifs.\u00e2\u20ac<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When France\u2019s Society of Decorative Arts was established in 1901, these former artisans were now given equal authorship rights that had previously only been enjoyed by sculptors and painters. Meanwhile, in Italy, something similar was happening, with the first-ever expo devoted to the decorative arts being held in Turin in 1902.
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Throughout the 20th century\u2019s first decade, more inroads were made by this nascent design style. New magazines devoted to this style were springing up all over Paris while art exhibits in the city started to feature more decorative arts sections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Part of the reason for Art Deco\u2019s growth was French nationalism: French designers were increasingly unhappy with the increasingly prosperous exports of more cost-affordable German furniture, so they decided to develop their own style to compete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not to be outdone, Parisian fashion houses, department stores, and clothing designers joined in the fray. French brands you\u2019re no doubt familiar with today\u2013like Louis Vuitton and Cartier\u2013started to design their products in a more modern fashion, recruiting various decorative artists to work on projects in their design studios. By this time, luxurious and wealthy materials like silk, ivory, ebony, and exotic woods\u2013set against chrome, glass, aluminum, and Bakelite\u2013along with very vibrant, stylized and colorful motifs, started to mold the trademark Art Deco style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By the 1910s, Art Deco was leaving its mark on buildings in France, too. The first real landmark structure completed in this memorable style was Auguste Perret\u2019s Theatre des Champs-Elysees<\/a>, where reinforced concrete helped make these bold new forms possible. You can look at this theater as the classic epitome of what makes Art Deco\u2026Art Deco, both inside and out.
<\/p>\n\n\n\nOutside, it features Art-Deco hallmarks like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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- Geometric patterns<\/a> and shapes<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Clean, rectangular design<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Inside, it featured Art Deco:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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- Curtains<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Paintings<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Dome<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nSave<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nNow, this design technique was in full swing, especially in Paris. Furniture coming out of Paris was characterized by loud and sometimes discordant colors, with floral patterns being a favorite. Richer materials like silk and ebony would be fused with vibrant and bright colors for an unmistakable look.
What was also really interesting was the influence of Cubism, which left a mark in France by 1912, on Art Deco. Cubism, of course, is the art style where the single viewpoint of an object is replaced with a fragmented subject that\u2019s shown from several points of view, together with an emphasis on minimalist<\/a> forms.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIn particular, it was 1912\u2019s The Cubist House<\/a>, an architectural display at the annual Paris art and design exhibition called Autumn Salon, that demonstrated not only the overlap between Cubism and Art Deco (note the strikingly geometric shapes and straight lines common to both), but also how the style would later absorb ideas associated with Bauhaus, providing something of a basis to the inevitable explosion in popularity of Art Deco.<\/p>\n\n\n\nInterestingly, it was the famous Swiss-French designer and architect Charles-Edouard Jeanneret (AKA, Le Corbusier) who saw the Cubist House and later contributed to Art Deco before moving more fully toward Modernism; in 1925, he designed the Esprit Nouveau pavilion for the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts, further showing the connection between the two design styles. The 1925 Paris Exposition helped popularize the style, while the term \u201cArt Deco\u201d itself was coined in the 1960s during a revival of interest. Running from April to October, it featured 15,000 exhibitors from 20 countries and drew 16 million visitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By 1925, the curious design idiosyncrasy within Art Deco was its obsession with everything machine-related, such as planes, cars, and ocean liners, owing to the ability of this movement to adapt to what was happening around it, as technology was undergoing a rapid evolution in the 1920s and 30s. This design pivot in the movement, which was earlier based mainly on furniture, textile, clothing, and architecture, was key in solidifying its permanent association with science, technology and, therefore, progress. That\u2019s why we also think of Art Deco as a modern approach to design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This continued to the point that, by 1939, the style had spread globally during the Great Depression, especially through architecture in major cities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/span>The Characteristics of Art Deco<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\nWhat makes Art Deco capture the imagination with such ease is its broadness. Across the art deco period, especially in the 1920s and 1930s, its main characteristics formed not just a single style, but a mosaic of various and even contradictory styles joining forces to create something that was then very new and exciting. Its main characteristics and distinguishing features include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n- Heavy geometric influences<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Triangular shapes<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Zigzags<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Trapezoidal shapes<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Straight and smooth lines<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Loud, vibrant, and even kitschy colors<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Streamlined and sleek forms<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Sunburst or sunrise motifs<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Exaggerated curves<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Hard edges<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Low reliefs<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Stepped forms<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Chevron (inverted, V-shaped mark) arrangements<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Ziggurat patterns<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Stylized, floral patterns<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Simple geometric shapes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Compared to other schools of design, Art Deco\u2019s characteristics make for a long bullet list! The fact that this style incorporates so many other influences is a big reason for this, and these traits appeared not only in graphics and interiors but also in art deco architecture between 1920 and 1940. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Take a look at some selections from our large collection of Art Deco graphic-design assets, and see if you can spot these beautiful design elements:<\/p>\n\n\n <\/figure>\n \n\n <\/figure>\n \n\n <\/figure>\n \n\n <\/figure>\n \n\n\nFor starters, it was the immediate successor of Art Nouveau, which was a very popular, but short-lived, design style that became widespread in the late 19th century and was out of fashion already by 1910. Since Art Nouveau\u2019s big theme was using the natural world in its designs\u2013nature elements, the curvy lines of flowers, and women\u2013Art Deco was pushback against art nouveau designs. That\u2019s why Art Deco is flashier, louder, and uses more machine- and technology-based motifs in its designs. Another feature that makes Art Deco stand out is its preoccupation with archaeology\u2013which is represented in the forms and lines that pervade its designs. In the early 20th century, groundbreaking work was being done in archaeology, with excavations in Pompeii, Troy and, the biggest of all, the discovery of King Tut\u2019s tomb in 1922. Art Deco designers noticed this and infused their designs with shapes that are distinctly archaeological in nature, like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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- Ziggurats<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Buttresses<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Columns<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Simultaneously, Art Deco was obsessed with everything Machine Age<\/a>-related, particularly from approximately 1925 onwards. The Machine Age refers to the era from 1880 to 1945, where technology was advancing at such a rapid pace, punctuated by both the later stages of the Second Industrial Revolution and the start of the Atomic Age. Because of all the exciting progress in machine-related activity at the time\u2013electric motors, skyscrapers, radio technology, the growing popularity of long-distance and safe travel in cars, planes, trains\u2013designers took notice. Its ornamental style linked precious materials with industrial ones, from reinforced concrete in buildings to geometric jewelry made with diamonds and platinum. <\/p>\n\n\n\nArt Deco embraced this machine element to such an extent that, by the 1930s, a subset of the design called Streamline Moderne<\/a> was actually developed. That\u2019s why Art Deco is one of those rare design styles that features elements and inspiration that seem oddly out of place. You\u2019ll find nods to archaeology like arches and ziggurats in the same design that incorporates machine-related elements like streamlined forms and aerodynamic curves. The end result is an approach to design that truly stands out and earns admiration and emulation still today, more than 100 years after its birth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/span>Art Deco in Graphic Design<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\nGraphic design was one of the earliest areas where Art Deco left its mark, starting well before World War I. It was in the Paris costume designs and posters for the Ballets Russes and the fashion catalogs of fashion designer Paul Poiret, whose work helped bring Art Deco into graphic design, where a French audience first gazed on Art Deco-influenced graphic design. From there, it spread like wildfire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By the 1920s, its influence in graphic design has reached American shores, with world-famous fashion magazines like Vogue, Harper\u2019s Bazaar, and Vanity Fair all featuring covers that feted this new, daring, and modern look. This same visual language helped define art deco fashion in the U.S. market.<\/p>\n\n\n
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However, posters for entertainers were still popular. In the 1930s, Art Deco designers who worked on posters for famous entertainers of the time, such as Josephine Baker and Charlie Chaplin, shot to prominence themselves. Paul Colin developed a following after designing posters for Baker while Jean Carlu handled posters for Chaplin\u2019s films. He immigrated to the U.S. right before World War II; while in the States, he helped the American war effort by designing propaganda posters<\/a> to encourage war production in the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/d3ui957tjb5bqd.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/2018\/03\/17024153\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-26-at-6.08.35-PM.jpg.webp\")
<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nSave<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nOther famous Art Deco poster designers included Charles Gesmar, who designed graphic art for Air France, and Adolphe Jean-Marie Mouron, also known as Cassandre, who designed the famous poster for the ocean liner SS Normandie by 1935, as the same era also shaped household objects and everyday objects through coordinated modern graphics and product styling. American designers such as Paul Theodore Frankl also translated the look into furniture and broader modern design in the U.S. For more inspiration, take a look at these pieces from our Art Deco graphic-design collection:<\/p>\n\n\n <\/figure>\n \n\n <\/figure>\n \n\n <\/figure>\n \n\n\n<\/span>Art Deco in Web Design<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\nIt seems a bit strange to even mention this design trend and web design in the same breath\u2013after all, web design basically arrived 100 years after Art Deco made its mark! However, if you scour the Internet far and wide enough, you\u2019ll be lucky enough to see some faithful examples of web design carried out in this decorative-art style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
New Zealand boat maker Dickey Boats pays tribute to Art Deco in its typography<\/a> and logo<\/a>, which are splashed across its website, in the header and footer, and on its Facebook page. The company\u2019s logo features the streamlined look common of cars from the 1920s and 30s, together with that sleek, aerodynamic look that\u2019s a throwback to the design of this era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/d3ui957tjb5bqd.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/2018\/03\/17024158\/Dickey-Boats-Logo.jpg.webp\")
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Next up is the site for the Los Angeles Football Club<\/a>, a U.S. pro soccer franchise that\u2019s based in the City of Angels. Its web design is infused with notable references to Art Deco, in part because of its crest and site logo and in part due to its colors.
The LAFC crest features a Neutraface font that screams Art Deco due to its:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n- Simplicity<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Hard corners and edges<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Smooth, straight and sleek lines<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Geometric influences in individual characters (As look like triangles, Ts look like a horizontal and vertical rectangle)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nSave<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nThe club\u2019s colors, black, and gold, call to mind the glamorous, old-timey Hollywood movies during the 20s and 30s, when this design style was at its peak. The golden color also invokes visions of the sunburst or sunrise motifs that are so prevalent in various Art Deco designs.<\/p>\n\n\n
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Finally, we have Google\u2019s Arts and Culture Art Deco page<\/a>. This powerful and pithy primer on the style does everything in its power to feature as much Art Deco design and images on a single page as possible. From the imposing hero image at the top of the page to the thorough gallery of Art Deco products and designs, this page demonstrates how you can create an Art Deco inspired page on the strength of imagery alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/span>Art Deco in Interior Design<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\nThis design movement mainly started out with furniture and interiors in the late 19th century, with early rooms shaped by interior designers such as Andr\u00e9 Mare and designers including Eileen Gray. Today, it\u2019s still possible to deck out your interiors, so that they look like they came straight out of a Roaring Twenties scene.<\/p>\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nSave<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nStreamlined shapes and forms\u2013usually found in vehicles from the era\u2013can also be added into home touches, and art deco furniture often stands out for its sleek profiles, with later pieces showing rounded edges. Look for angular armchairs and French-style coffee tables<\/a>, or a bedroom dressing table, in period-authentic exotic woods or chrome-plated steel with clean and hard edges. \u00c9mile-Jacques Ruhlmann was a leading furniture designer whose french furniture embodied expensive materials and traditional craftsmanship. At the same time, you can\u2019t go wrong with geometric shapes, so add rectangular or even oblong mirrors to your bedroom, together with Art Deco-inspired vases with contoured and curvy lines. While you\u2019re at it, do something memorable with the lighting. Art Deco chandeliers\u2013themselves with various geometric patterns and designs, often mixing rich materials like glass and chrome with those bold forms\u2013are a great source of light. Plus, they provide a certain glam effect that\u2019s a throwback to the motion pictures of the era. Remember the aforementioned sunburst or sunrise motifs that are notable in designs of this style? Get yourself a sunburst-rock chandelier<\/a> to put over your dining room table for the ultimate in Art-Deco homage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/d3ui957tjb5bqd.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/2018\/03\/17024220\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-26-at-6.19.24-PM.jpg.webp\")
<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nSave<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nIf you just want to make one part of your home Art Deco instead of your whole digs, that\u2019s a possibility, too. It may even be the smarter move since you can then simply escape to your Art Deco retreat when you want to immerse yourself in this radiant style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/span>Art Deco in Pop Culture<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\nPop culture is rife with homage after homage to this popular style. Whether it\u2019s in the movies or even cartoons, the entertainment world has contributed to the development and spread of this design movement, too.<\/p>\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nSave<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nPerhaps the most famous movie that didn\u2019t just exhibit this style, but actually immersed its entire plot and setting in Art Deco is 1991\u2019s The Rocketeer<\/em>. While not a blockbuster by any means, the movie nonetheless bursts with all things Art Deco. Its iconic poster, created in the last decade of the 20th century, looks like it came straight out of 1920s Hollywood. The production design of the movie\u2013from the costumes, sets and everything in between\u2013is basically a celebration of everything that made the design elements of Art Deco so timeless. Its revival in film often draws on iconic art deco buildings in New York City. When you think of the decorative arts, cartoons are likely the last place you\u2019d think of\u2013but Art Deco managed to infiltrate even this medium. In particular, the 1990s Warner Bros. Animation cartoon series Batman: The Animated Series<\/em> demonstrates how visually pleasing and striking Art Deco can be when a whole production team is invested in its faithful representation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/d3ui957tjb5bqd.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/2018\/03\/17024233\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-26-at-6.26.28-PM.jpg.webp\")
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Decorative artists were those who worked as designers of textiles, furniture, and other ornamentation; until 1875, they were just regarded as ordinary artisans. However, that year, they gained status when they were awarded recognized status with the distinction of \u201carts decoratifs.\u00e2\u20ac<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When France\u2019s Society of Decorative Arts was established in 1901, these former artisans were now given equal authorship rights that had previously only been enjoyed by sculptors and painters. Meanwhile, in Italy, something similar was happening, with the first-ever expo devoted to the decorative arts being held in Turin in 1902.
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Throughout the 20th century\u2019s first decade, more inroads were made by this nascent design style. New magazines devoted to this style were springing up all over Paris while art exhibits in the city started to feature more decorative arts sections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Part of the reason for Art Deco\u2019s growth was French nationalism: French designers were increasingly unhappy with the increasingly prosperous exports of more cost-affordable German furniture, so they decided to develop their own style to compete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not to be outdone, Parisian fashion houses, department stores, and clothing designers joined in the fray. French brands you\u2019re no doubt familiar with today\u2013like Louis Vuitton and Cartier\u2013started to design their products in a more modern fashion, recruiting various decorative artists to work on projects in their design studios. By this time, luxurious and wealthy materials like silk, ivory, ebony, and exotic woods\u2013set against chrome, glass, aluminum, and Bakelite\u2013along with very vibrant, stylized and colorful motifs, started to mold the trademark Art Deco style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By the 1910s, Art Deco was leaving its mark on buildings in France, too. The first real landmark structure completed in this memorable style was Auguste Perret\u2019s Theatre des Champs-Elysees<\/a>, where reinforced concrete helped make these bold new forms possible. You can look at this theater as the classic epitome of what makes Art Deco\u2026Art Deco, both inside and out. Outside, it features Art-Deco hallmarks like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Inside, it featured Art Deco:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Save<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Now, this design technique was in full swing, especially in Paris. Furniture coming out of Paris was characterized by loud and sometimes discordant colors, with floral patterns being a favorite. Richer materials like silk and ebony would be fused with vibrant and bright colors for an unmistakable look. In particular, it was 1912\u2019s The Cubist House<\/a>, an architectural display at the annual Paris art and design exhibition called Autumn Salon, that demonstrated not only the overlap between Cubism and Art Deco (note the strikingly geometric shapes and straight lines common to both), but also how the style would later absorb ideas associated with Bauhaus, providing something of a basis to the inevitable explosion in popularity of Art Deco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Interestingly, it was the famous Swiss-French designer and architect Charles-Edouard Jeanneret (AKA, Le Corbusier) who saw the Cubist House and later contributed to Art Deco before moving more fully toward Modernism; in 1925, he designed the Esprit Nouveau pavilion for the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts, further showing the connection between the two design styles. The 1925 Paris Exposition helped popularize the style, while the term \u201cArt Deco\u201d itself was coined in the 1960s during a revival of interest. Running from April to October, it featured 15,000 exhibitors from 20 countries and drew 16 million visitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By 1925, the curious design idiosyncrasy within Art Deco was its obsession with everything machine-related, such as planes, cars, and ocean liners, owing to the ability of this movement to adapt to what was happening around it, as technology was undergoing a rapid evolution in the 1920s and 30s. This design pivot in the movement, which was earlier based mainly on furniture, textile, clothing, and architecture, was key in solidifying its permanent association with science, technology and, therefore, progress. That\u2019s why we also think of Art Deco as a modern approach to design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This continued to the point that, by 1939, the style had spread globally during the Great Depression, especially through architecture in major cities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What makes Art Deco capture the imagination with such ease is its broadness. Across the art deco period, especially in the 1920s and 1930s, its main characteristics formed not just a single style, but a mosaic of various and even contradictory styles joining forces to create something that was then very new and exciting. Its main characteristics and distinguishing features include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Compared to other schools of design, Art Deco\u2019s characteristics make for a long bullet list! The fact that this style incorporates so many other influences is a big reason for this, and these traits appeared not only in graphics and interiors but also in art deco architecture between 1920 and 1940. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Take a look at some selections from our large collection of Art Deco graphic-design assets, and see if you can spot these beautiful design elements:<\/p>\n\n\n For starters, it was the immediate successor of Art Nouveau, which was a very popular, but short-lived, design style that became widespread in the late 19th century and was out of fashion already by 1910. Since Art Nouveau\u2019s big theme was using the natural world in its designs\u2013nature elements, the curvy lines of flowers, and women\u2013Art Deco was pushback against art nouveau designs. That\u2019s why Art Deco is flashier, louder, and uses more machine- and technology-based motifs in its designs. Another feature that makes Art Deco stand out is its preoccupation with archaeology\u2013which is represented in the forms and lines that pervade its designs. In the early 20th century, groundbreaking work was being done in archaeology, with excavations in Pompeii, Troy and, the biggest of all, the discovery of King Tut\u2019s tomb in 1922. Art Deco designers noticed this and infused their designs with shapes that are distinctly archaeological in nature, like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Simultaneously, Art Deco was obsessed with everything Machine Age<\/a>-related, particularly from approximately 1925 onwards. The Machine Age refers to the era from 1880 to 1945, where technology was advancing at such a rapid pace, punctuated by both the later stages of the Second Industrial Revolution and the start of the Atomic Age. Because of all the exciting progress in machine-related activity at the time\u2013electric motors, skyscrapers, radio technology, the growing popularity of long-distance and safe travel in cars, planes, trains\u2013designers took notice. Its ornamental style linked precious materials with industrial ones, from reinforced concrete in buildings to geometric jewelry made with diamonds and platinum. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Art Deco embraced this machine element to such an extent that, by the 1930s, a subset of the design called Streamline Moderne<\/a> was actually developed. That\u2019s why Art Deco is one of those rare design styles that features elements and inspiration that seem oddly out of place. You\u2019ll find nods to archaeology like arches and ziggurats in the same design that incorporates machine-related elements like streamlined forms and aerodynamic curves. The end result is an approach to design that truly stands out and earns admiration and emulation still today, more than 100 years after its birth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Graphic design was one of the earliest areas where Art Deco left its mark, starting well before World War I. It was in the Paris costume designs and posters for the Ballets Russes and the fashion catalogs of fashion designer Paul Poiret, whose work helped bring Art Deco into graphic design, where a French audience first gazed on Art Deco-influenced graphic design. From there, it spread like wildfire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By the 1920s, its influence in graphic design has reached American shores, with world-famous fashion magazines like Vogue, Harper\u2019s Bazaar, and Vanity Fair all featuring covers that feted this new, daring, and modern look. This same visual language helped define art deco fashion in the U.S. market.<\/p>\n\n\n Even posters rapidly changed thanks to this new style. Whereas Art Nouveau posters had usually featured cabarets and theatrical actresses and productions, they now changed to more reflect the machine-influenced obsession of the day, specifically on travel posters. These increasingly featured airlines and steamship lines, illustrated with linear, dynamic, and more minimalistic forms, typically against a solid-colored background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, posters for entertainers were still popular. In the 1930s, Art Deco designers who worked on posters for famous entertainers of the time, such as Josephine Baker and Charlie Chaplin, shot to prominence themselves. Paul Colin developed a following after designing posters for Baker while Jean Carlu handled posters for Chaplin\u2019s films. He immigrated to the U.S. right before World War II; while in the States, he helped the American war effort by designing propaganda posters<\/a> to encourage war production in the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n Save<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Other famous Art Deco poster designers included Charles Gesmar, who designed graphic art for Air France, and Adolphe Jean-Marie Mouron, also known as Cassandre, who designed the famous poster for the ocean liner SS Normandie by 1935, as the same era also shaped household objects and everyday objects through coordinated modern graphics and product styling. American designers such as Paul Theodore Frankl also translated the look into furniture and broader modern design in the U.S. For more inspiration, take a look at these pieces from our Art Deco graphic-design collection:<\/p>\n\n\n It seems a bit strange to even mention this design trend and web design in the same breath\u2013after all, web design basically arrived 100 years after Art Deco made its mark! However, if you scour the Internet far and wide enough, you\u2019ll be lucky enough to see some faithful examples of web design carried out in this decorative-art style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Save<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Save<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The club\u2019s colors, black, and gold, call to mind the glamorous, old-timey Hollywood movies during the 20s and 30s, when this design style was at its peak. The golden color also invokes visions of the sunburst or sunrise motifs that are so prevalent in various Art Deco designs.<\/p>\n\n\n Save<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n This design movement mainly started out with furniture and interiors in the late 19th century, with early rooms shaped by interior designers such as Andr\u00e9 Mare and designers including Eileen Gray. Today, it\u2019s still possible to deck out your interiors, so that they look like they came straight out of a Roaring Twenties scene.<\/p>\n\n\n Save<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Streamlined shapes and forms\u2013usually found in vehicles from the era\u2013can also be added into home touches, and art deco furniture often stands out for its sleek profiles, with later pieces showing rounded edges. Look for angular armchairs and French-style coffee tables<\/a>, or a bedroom dressing table, in period-authentic exotic woods or chrome-plated steel with clean and hard edges. \u00c9mile-Jacques Ruhlmann was a leading furniture designer whose french furniture embodied expensive materials and traditional craftsmanship. At the same time, you can\u2019t go wrong with geometric shapes, so add rectangular or even oblong mirrors to your bedroom, together with Art Deco-inspired vases with contoured and curvy lines. While you\u2019re at it, do something memorable with the lighting. Art Deco chandeliers\u2013themselves with various geometric patterns and designs, often mixing rich materials like glass and chrome with those bold forms\u2013are a great source of light. Plus, they provide a certain glam effect that\u2019s a throwback to the motion pictures of the era. Remember the aforementioned sunburst or sunrise motifs that are notable in designs of this style? Get yourself a sunburst-rock chandelier<\/a> to put over your dining room table for the ultimate in Art-Deco homage.<\/p>\n\n\n Save<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n If you just want to make one part of your home Art Deco instead of your whole digs, that\u2019s a possibility, too. It may even be the smarter move since you can then simply escape to your Art Deco retreat when you want to immerse yourself in this radiant style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pop culture is rife with homage after homage to this popular style. Whether it\u2019s in the movies or even cartoons, the entertainment world has contributed to the development and spread of this design movement, too.<\/p>\n\n\n Save<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Perhaps the most famous movie that didn\u2019t just exhibit this style, but actually immersed its entire plot and setting in Art Deco is 1991\u2019s The Rocketeer<\/em>. While not a blockbuster by any means, the movie nonetheless bursts with all things Art Deco. Its iconic poster, created in the last decade of the 20th century, looks like it came straight out of 1920s Hollywood. The production design of the movie\u2013from the costumes, sets and everything in between\u2013is basically a celebration of everything that made the design elements of Art Deco so timeless. Its revival in film often draws on iconic art deco buildings in New York City. When you think of the decorative arts, cartoons are likely the last place you\u2019d think of\u2013but Art Deco managed to infiltrate even this medium. In particular, the 1990s Warner Bros. Animation cartoon series Batman: The Animated Series<\/em> demonstrates how visually pleasing and striking Art Deco can be when a whole production team is invested in its faithful representation.<\/p>\n\n\n
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What was also really interesting was the influence of Cubism, which left a mark in France by 1912, on Art Deco. Cubism, of course, is the art style where the single viewpoint of an object is replaced with a fragmented subject that\u2019s shown from several points of view, together with an emphasis on minimalist<\/a> forms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/span>The Characteristics of Art Deco<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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New Zealand boat maker Dickey Boats pays tribute to Art Deco in its typography<\/a> and logo<\/a>, which are splashed across its website, in the header and footer, and on its Facebook page. The company\u2019s logo features the streamlined look common of cars from the 1920s and 30s, together with that sleek, aerodynamic look that\u2019s a throwback to the design of this era.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
Next up is the site for the Los Angeles Football Club<\/a>, a U.S. pro soccer franchise that\u2019s based in the City of Angels. Its web design is infused with notable references to Art Deco, in part because of its crest and site logo and in part due to its colors.
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Finally, we have Google\u2019s Arts and Culture Art Deco page<\/a>. This powerful and pithy primer on the style does everything in its power to feature as much Art Deco design and images on a single page as possible. From the imposing hero image at the top of the page to the thorough gallery of Art Deco products and designs, this page demonstrates how you can create an Art Deco inspired page on the strength of imagery alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/span>Art Deco in Interior Design<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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![Save<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nFor any DC Comics or just animation fan who remembers this old cartoon, they can remember how sleek and cool Batman\u2019s Gotham City was made to look thanks to Art Deco. Whether it was the Batmobile\u2019s Machine Age and streamlined form, the geometric<\/a> features of the Joker, or the beautifully drawn skyscrapers of Gotham\u2019s skyline\u2014modeled on the skyscraper image of Art Deco with landmarks like the Chrysler Building and Empire State Building as clear reference points, along with the monumental lobbies and public art that gave this architecture part of its cinematic appeal\u2014Batman: The Animated Series<\/em> turned a whole generation of kids on to the wonders of this impressive art style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/span>A Visually Striking Style<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\nFew design movements do it quite like Art Deco. Its strength is arguably that it combines, borrows from, and takes inspiration from so many other design styles across the spectrum. With no other design movement do you see elements as harshly different from each other as machines and archaeology in the same technique. It\u2019s almost like the perfect blend between the ancient and the modern, which makes for a visually memorable experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWhile its heyday may have only lasted a few decades in the early part of the 20th century, Art Deco still resonates today with designers who appreciate its sharp, sleek modernity, and sometimes gaudy excesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIs Art Deco still popular today?<\/strong> Yes. Art Deco remains one of the most influential design movements and continues to inspire graphic designers, interior designers, architects, fashion brands, and digital creatives. Modern interpretations often blend classic Art Deco elements with minimalist design, making the style feel contemporary while preserving its iconic glamour.<\/p> <\/div> What fonts are considered Art Deco?<\/strong> Art Deco fonts typically feature geometric letterforms, elongated proportions, sharp angles, and elegant decorative details. They’re commonly used for luxury branding, wedding invitations, posters, packaging, and editorial design. Many modern typefaces reinterpret the classic Art Deco look while improving readability for digital use.<\/p> <\/div> What is Art Deco design?<\/strong> Art Deco is a design style that emerged in the 1920s and 1930s. It’s known for bold geometric shapes, luxurious materials, symmetrical patterns, metallic finishes, and streamlined forms. 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