Revival art is an alternative to classical Modernism and is created as vintage graphic approaches that prefigured Post-Modernism in the mid-1950s. As it was once being considered as obsolete, it was removed from a popular culture, primitive painting.
Until fresh sources of inspiration such as Victoriana, Art Nouveau and Art Deco graphic motifs were discovered, paints, images as well as typography were combined together as a total design.
Since Revival Arts are not really suitable for multinational business communications, they are usually used for editorial and book designs, record albums, cultural posters, and packaging.
Labels: Revival
Milton Glaser
Have you ever seen this logo before?
I bet you do!
Guess what?
This famous I love New York logo is designed by Milton Glaser.
He is the president of Push Pin studios, and here's his piece of Revival Art:
Holiday.
Otto Storch
Here's another example of Revival Art by Otto Storch in 1961:
Rings on her fingers.
Otto Storch is known as a magazine art director and advertising photographer who introduced an expressive typographic style to woman's magazine as part of a revolution in editorial design.
In addition, she is also one of the handful graphic designers who helped to transform and modernize the visual content of American magazine.
She also helped in reviving late 19th-century Victorian wood typefaces which had been passed for decades, by adding graphic impact and contrast to the printed page.
Paul Brooks Davis
Paul Davis is an American graphic artist who developed a distinct visual persona which, owing to an unique confluence of primitive and folk arts that brought a fresh new American look to illustration.
Look at one of his illustrations for a particular book jacket:
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall.
A little add-on to his profile,
Davis has worked at Push Pin Studios which focus on revivals of Art Nouveau and Art Deco which are the inspirations for Revival Art.
Labels: Revival
David Lance Goines, 1973
He designs his work by both letterpress and photo offset lithography.
Chez Panisse.
Seymour Chwast, 1973
The sensational Houdini poster.
Barry Zaid, 1973
He contributed covers to magazines like Vogue.
The following are drawings published in The Push Pin Graphic:
Mata Hari
Labels: Revival
