Looking back at Victoriana

I decided to look back at the Victoriana style as i thought i didn't get enough imagery on the topic and get a clear overview of this particular. So i went on a few more sites to get more of a feel for this theme, and i ended up finding a site called 'design inspiration' where its full of art work in different time periods and wide range of different stuff as well, and found some of these images below on this site that caught my eye.

One of the images that caught my eyes was the image to the left where it presents a woman wearing clothing set in the era of the Victorian period. This image is made to look elegant and does this not only with the flattering clothing but does it with the females hair. Her hair is made to look elegant with it swerving and being long to give her hair a gorgeous and beautiful look and to flatter the woman's face and expression.

The colours are simple and pale which makes the piece slightly elegant with subtle pale greens, and contrasts with the strong bold colours coming from the woman from her hair and clothing.

In this next piece that i also found on the same site is a little bit more related to pop art with the limited colour scheme and bright vivid colours. The illustrations are quite comical and have a light hearted feeling towards them making it a bit more of a playful piece of work. The use of the bold yellow helps to make the piece eye catching and stand out from the illustrations to make them a bit more of a focal point.

In the next piece of work that caught my eye from the site yet again uses a range of typography which is serif that a variety of different serif font to make it the main interest and eye catcher out of the whole piece on a whole.

The colour is only white/cream from the background and the typography is coloured navy blue, in order to make the text stand out and make it the main interest.

The range of typography is used to make be look at it close up and read it carefully as some of the type is a bit harder to read in comparison to the other text.

The text basically telling you to be confident, and have faith, love etc and don't let others get in your way, so its almost like a speech to make you a bit more confident and proud.  The wide range of typography helps to make this piece unique and eye catching and formal which helps to resemble the Victorian era.

The alignment is quite specific to make it easy to read and positioned well and in a formal manner.





In this next piece the imagery has been separated into its own space with lines that help to form individual boxes giving the image on a whole a very neat and organised feel. The images present some of the stuff relating to the era and are drawn in a very illustrated manner which gives this piece a little bit more of an attraction.

The colours are simple again in order to main them less of a focus in comparison to the imagery and the colours on them so they stand out more.

http://designspiration.net/tag/victorian/  

(Site i used for all images above)

This example next is from a different site i went to and really caught my eye and took my interest. This piece also interested me with the range of images placed in one piece. With themes relating to the time period, so this image gives me a bit more inspiration to what the Victoriana theme is on a whole.

The colours are contrasting with the images being black and the background being white to help give an old feel to the piece along with making the images stand out.

The typography is mainly handwritten to resemble the time when handwriting was popular and was elegant and commonly attracted a lot of people.  

The imagery style is almost a bit of a art style making it very formal and related to an elegant era of the Victorian age.

http://www.thefruitpixie.co.uk/ekmps/shops/thefruitpixie/images/7-gypsies-rubbings-victoriana-9402-p.jpg