The Modern Age

The Modern Age consists of twenty-five years in the early 1900s. It birthed a number of art and design movements all that are a part of the Modern Art Movement. It brought out different techniques of design that was for all eyes and not just the rich and elite. The first movement came about in 1905 and was called Plakatstil and it consisted of modern art posters. It was the first time designers could mass produce posters due to the invention of offset lithography. 

Since it was possible to mass produce posters, leaders used this opportunity to create posters for war propaganda and this became very popular in Germany. The problem with this is that it became a very popular item to take into homes and show pride for your country and this continued when artists began creating posters for the Nazi political party. 

Futurism began after even more development in the machinery world because artists were able to place pieces of art in unexpected places. Below is actually a poem book cover done by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and he gathered many of the writer's poems and placed them on the page in different areas to give it a more eye-catching and unexpected look. 

Another way artists displayed some of their poems was by using Dadaism. Dada, meaning "nothing" was an anti-art movement. It was first created by a group of people in Switzerland who were discussed with governments allowing World War I to occur. They showed their anger through poems, art, sculpture, plays and anything that they could mock from traditional arts. Little did they know, Dadaism would also become an expressive way of art.

This is when you start to see everything coming together, including all of the typography that was developed over so many years, and the art and design. With the use of advance machinery, people are finding it easier to get their work out into the world and show their opinion.