Sunday, September 14, 2008

Victorian Age Design


The Victorian age was an important area in the history of graphic design. I specifically want take a look at Victorian posters, or flyers, which focused on advertising a certain product or event. Even if you doesn't particularly care for the design choices of the time, it is still interesting to look back and see what these designers were doing. 

The three images above show some common characteristics of Victorian design. 

  • The use of many different fonts
  • A busy picture plane
  • An even page layout
  • Bold, or loud type
The use of many different fonts can be confusing to the viewer. Some fonts strike us as serious, or stern, while others are easy and clean. Using these different kinds of fonts together can create an uneven tone or message. 

Another common approach to the design of these posters was to cram in a lot of information in a tiny area. This can cause the design to seem cluttered. 

Bold text, along with large font sizes were used often to get the attention of the reader. 

- Jason

1 comment:

LaurenMarie - Creative Curio said...

Hi Jason, glad you liked those broadsides that I found. I love the style of the Victorian age ads and posters. They're busy, yeah, but there's just something so enchanting about them!

On a side note, would you mind please saving the image and hosting it on your own server? When you hotlink images like that, every time this page loads on your site, it's pulling bandwidth from my site because it's grabbing the image hosted there. I do appreciate the link back to Creative Curio. Thanks so much!