Am cassandre biography graphic organizer
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The Nord Express was a poster designed by Adolphe Mouron Cassandre in 1927 promoting the railway line that ran between Paris and St Petersburg. Although the Nord Express rail line was already thirty years old by the time A.M.Cassandre’s poster was printed, the creation of this glamorous advertisement did not just re-promote the long existing rail line, but expressed and symbolised the excitement, glamor and extravaganse of the art-deco age in which the creator A.M.Cassandre was living.
Adolphe Marie Mouron Cassandre was born in the Ukraine on the 24th of January 1901. As a young man he traveled to Paris where he studied art at Beaux- art. He was extremely talented and shortly after graduating from Art school he was taken in by a printing company and set to work creating his first advertisements posters. Unsatisfied he, along with several other print makers, soon went on to create their own printing company Alliance Graphique. Here Cassandre really shone. H
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Adolphe Jean Marie Cassandre Biography
Soon obliged to earn his own living, Mouron designed several posters, possibly as early as 1921; they were done in a caricatural style which was probably derived from the German School. Almost all of these early works have been lost. In 1922 he moved to his first studio in Paris, on the Rue du Moulin-Vert in Montparnasse. He decided to sign his advertising designs with the pseudonym Cassandre, which was sometimes combined (up to 1928) with the name Mouron.
In 1923, Cassandre completed the first poster work characte
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„Bifur: caractère dem publicité” bygd A.M. Cassandre, Paris 1929
I found this book most interesting at the collection exibit inom saw at the University of Amsterdam. A.M. Cassandre, whose real name was Adolphe Jean-Marie Mouron, was an Ukrainian- french graphic designer from the Interbellum period. He was formgivning posters and letter types.
Bifur was poduced bygd Deberny & Peignot from Cassandre’s designs. The book is a publication of this font released in 1929.
I chose this book cause inom was impressed by a font itself and also the form eller gestalt of the book- how it was printed. inom really like the simplicity and a specific character of it. The font was originally produced in 1- and 2-color versions. The one presented in the book is a 1-color utgåva. I think visually it is very appealing and it was quite innovative for its time. The simplicity of the geometrical form, tydlig förståelse of the message, funcionality create a beautifully balanced font. For me particularly attractive fryst vatten