Stylogeny combining Art Deco × Streamline Moderne

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Art Deco × Streamline Moderne

Fold Streamline speed lines and rounded corners into a Deco layout to move from stepped geometry toward aerodynamic sweep.

From the research on Art Deco

Mix them and make something Art Deco Streamline Moderne

SIGNALArt Deco × Streamline Moderne1910 · 1930
A sample layout drawn from the recipe: shapes from Art Deco, their arrangement from Art Deco, the finish from Streamline Moderne. Not a real work, and not an image of either style.

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What each style brings

Each part of the design comes from the style with the stronger say in it, and each style gives at least two.

Art Deco Streamline Moderne

Type from Art Deco
Colour from Streamline Moderne
Form from Art Deco

Streamline Moderne avoids angular & zigzag: this is where the two pull against each other.

Composition from Art Deco
Surface from Streamline Moderne

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The type

Open fonts standing in for each style’s own type, which is often hand-drawn or commercial.

Display · Art Deco

Signal

Poiret One, standing in for Bifur (A. M. Cassandre, 1929)

Text · Streamline Moderne

The late, chiefly American phase of Art Deco, in which aerodynamic science became a visual language for a Depression-era culture hungry for progress. Industrial designers and illustrators wrapped trains, radios, diners and posters in teardrop curves, horizontal speed lines, rounded corners and airbrushed chrome, selling the 'World of Tomorrow' at the 1939 New York World's Fair.

Jost; Streamline Moderne used Huxley Vertical and Agency Gothic

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The colours

The ground and leading colours come from Streamline Moderne, with a counter-accent from Art Deco. The ink reads on the ground at 4.5:1 or more.

Art Deco Streamline Moderne

  • #e8dcc2 ground · 36%
  • #2b2b2b ink · 14%
  • #d9822b accent · 18%
  • #1f3a5f accent · 14%
  • #8c1c26 accent · 10%
  • #7fa7b8 accent · 8%

As CSS

:root {
  --ground: #e8dcc2;
  --ink: #2b2b2b;
  --accent-1: #d9822b;
  --accent-2: #1f3a5f;
  --accent-3: #8c1c26;
  --accent-4: #7fa7b8;
  --font-display: "Poiret One", sans-serif;
  --font-text: "Jost", sans-serif;
}

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The two styles

An Art Deco-style poster headed “AURORA” shows an elongated woman in a teal-and-gold gown standing above a locomotive approaching head-on. Symmetrical skyscrapers, arched viaducts, clouds of steam, and a gold sun with radiating red and cream rays surround her. 1910–1939 · Western Europe, North America, Global / networked Art Deco The glamorous modern style named after the 1925 Paris Exposition des Arts Décoratifs, which disciplined ornament into geometry: sunbursts, chevrons, stepped forms and sleek stylised figures rendered in lacquer-smooth colour with metallic accents. In Cassandre's and Colin's posters, fashion magazines, cinemas and luxury packaging it spoke of speed, travel, jazz and wealth. A streamlined silver-and-orange passenger train races along converging tracks beneath the large word “SKYLINE.” Rounded futuristic towers rise against a large pale sun in a deep blue sky. 1930–1945 · North America Streamline Moderne The late, chiefly American phase of Art Deco, in which aerodynamic science became a visual language for a Depression-era culture hungry for progress. Industrial designers and illustrators wrapped trains, radios, diners and posters in teardrop curves, horizontal speed lines, rounded corners and airbrushed chrome, selling the 'World of Tomorrow' at the 1939 New York World's Fair.

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