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Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. move to sidebar hide. Help. Pages in category "Art Nouveau typefaces" The following 8 ...
The logo of White Dwarf magazine from the late 1970s to the early 1980s used the font. The splash screen of the video game, Pharaoh's Tomb used the font. The band Dinosaur Jr. has used the font on various album covers. Early "Ram's Head" versions of the Electro-Harmonix Big Muff used the font.
George Auriol, born Jean-Georges Huyot (26 April 1863, Beauvais – February 1938, Paris), was a French poet, songwriter, graphic designer, type designer, and Art Nouveau artist. He worked in many media and created illustrations for the covers of magazines, books, and sheet music, as well as other types of work such as monograms and trademarks.
George Auriol has been called the "quintessential Art Nouveau designer" according to Steven Heller and Louise Fili. [1] The letterforms he designed for his namesake typeface originated in Française-légère and Française-allongée, two other fonts he designed for G. Peignot et Fils.
Articles relating to Art Nouveau, an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts.The style was most popular between 1890 and 1910 during the Belle Époque period that ended with the start of World War I in 1914.
Walter Tracy describes this as similar to some of the much more adorned Art Nouveau and Secessionist lettering of the period. [10] Original versions had sheared horizontal stroke terminals on 'E' and 'F', but in the later metal-type period it was sold with alternate capitals without these. [ 11 ]
Will H. Bradley. His portrait - drawn by himself in 1896. Bradley was born July 10, 1868, in Boston, Massachusetts to Aaron Bradley and Sarah Rowland. [2] At the age of 12 he obtained a job as an apprentice for a weekly newspaper — the Iron Agitator, later known as the Iron Ore — in Ishpeming, Michigan.
PY Ta 641, sometimes known as the Tripod Tablet, [1] is a Mycenaean clay tablet inscribed in Linear B, currently displayed in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens. [1] Discovered in the so-called "Archives Complex" of the Palace of Nestor at Pylos in Messenia in June 1952 by the American archaeologist Carl Blegen , it has been described ...