Modern Hieroglyphs

Pictograms

Thousands of pictograms are associated with Olympic Games. These pictograms are my favorites. The curvy pictograms remind me of figure drawing. The lines are naturally following the human body creating a perfect harmony between positive and negative space, black and white.

I also find it visually interesting the colored pictograms. They are very popular in the modern art but they were used before, for example, in the Tokyo Olympics in 1964. Simple but yet eye-catching. It is a good way to attract attention with the color but still being able to keep it simple.

The baby pictogram is another favorite. The artist successfully used the negative space to create the diaper.

CD cover research

Movie Poster research

Jules Cheret

Chéret created vivid poster ads for the cabarets, music halls, and theaters such as the Eldorado, the Olympia, the Folies Bergères, Theatre de l'Opera, the Alcazar d'Été and the Moulin Rouge.As his work became more popular and his large posters displaying modestly free-spirited females found a larger audience, pundits began calling him the "father of the women's liberation." Females had previously been depicted in art as prostitutes or puritans.