1. ART DECO 1925 -1940 Art Deco was a popular international art design movement from 1925 until the 1940s, affecting the decorative arts such as architecture, interior design and industrial design, as well as the visual arts such as fashion, painting, the graphic arts and film. At the time, this style was seen as elegant, glamorous, functional and modern.decorative artsarchitectureinterior designindustrial designvisual artsfashionpainting graphic artsfilmglamorous

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5. Art Deco features included Use of very high quality materials Using certain shapes which are commonly associated with the Art Deco movement

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9. A frequently used Art Deco motif

10. ART DECO Radio’s were popular in the 20’s and 30’s and were often designed in the Art Deco style. So were cinema’s

11. Art Deco buildings are everywhere in Australian towns and cities

12. ART DECO A modern computer screen in an Art Deco style housing

13. Modernism-Bauhaus 1925 – Present Day The Bauhaus design school wanted to create a new “language of design” in its furniture, architecture, textiles, and products

14. Modernism-Bauhaus 1925 – Present Day As the Bauhaus ideas became more popular and international their style began to evolve into modernism

15. Modernism-Bauhaus 1925 – Present Day The aim of modernism was to avoid uneccesary decoration but concentrate on the function of the object only

16. Modernism 1925 – Present Day Buildings got more and more modern but also plainer.

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18. Postmodern –Memphis design-1980-present day In the 1980’s a group of designers were so bored with the plain modernist architecture that they decided to inject some colour and fun into there range of furniture

19. Postmodern –Memphis design-1980-present day They became known as the Memphis design group

20. Postmodern –Memphis design- 1980-present day Memphis designs were Very colourful Sometimes used patterns Did not always function but looked good

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23. The memphis group did not last long but there ideas became known as postmodernism

24. Postmodernism 1980’s- present day Other designers followed their lead and started creating more unusual designs

25. Postmodernism 1980’s- present day “Anything goes”