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Design Styles Across 10 Decades

Envato Tuts+

Feeling nostalgic? We’re going to look back in time to explore the era-defining graphic design movements, trends, and illustration styles over the past ten decades. . Studies of design and illustration have always given historians intriguing insights into changing trends in aesthetics, buying patterns, and popular culture, but it’s also invaluable for designers to know what has influenced and continues to influence their work today. .

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Follow these principles to design an effective website

DesignM.ag

The success of any web site is not determined by its visual design, but by its utility, and most importantly usability. The user is in the center of attention because the user is the one who is clicking the mouse and using the page, so everything must revolve around him. The user-centric approach to design […]. The post Follow these principles to design an effective website appeared first on DesignM.ag.

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NEW REFLECTIONS ON OLD COMBAT ART, part 2

Illustration Art

Did fine artists and illustrators react differently to World War I? Many historians believe that World War I changed the path of fine art. In the years leading up to the war, art had already begun to explore modernism and the industrial age. But no one was prepared for the way scientific progress changed the nature of war: the invention of the tank, air warfare, the development of poison gas, and mass killings that didn't discriminate between combatant and civilian-- these were just the tip of t