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The early fifty years of the twentieth century is the golden age of illustration. Many fashion magazines in this period used illustration to be as their main visual design techniques, a fusion of aesthetic trends, fashion style and social atmosphere. Illustration is one of the most important factors in fashion magazines. Although illustration has declined because of the rise of photographic techniques, in recent years in the use of technology and new media, the designer of styles, a wide range of performance issues, so that fashion illustration technique of expression is more abundant. For this study, the fashion magazine cover illustration for the layout design layout and visual design elements, with over a century of historic fashion magazine ─ "VOGUE" as the research object, the golden age of illustration in the range from 1900 to 1950 the magazine cover. The study was divided into three phases, the first phase of a literature survey, through visual elements, layout arrangement, the first half of the twentieth century fashion design background and Western art style, and other related documents for further study argument; the second stage is content analysis, cover illustration for choreography techniques, content and visual design elements were analyzed and summarized its cover features; the third stage of the focus group method, obtained by the foregoing analysis to classify and summarize the information.
United States founded the National VOGUE magazine, "VOGUE US" around 1892-1907 inaugural issue's cover, more than party figures, decorative patterns of the classical version of the cover for the main design techniques, design for realistic style, and low saturation color does not exceed three-color design presents; blank side of the cover design is concentrated in about 1913 to 1928, belongs to the public version of the form, but also the three countries discussed in this study appear this cover format; the rest the illustration on the cover design performance is more freedom to illustrator personal unique style rendering. British VOGUE magazine for primary access to overseas locations, and the United States are among the English-speaking countries, "VOGUE UK" focused on the blank side of the cover around 1917 to 1926, with the US version of overlap; in the design of the cover art often and US exchanges, only in the title and text layout is slightly different. France is the second VOGUE magazine into the overseas locations, and is the first national non-English department, "VOGUE Paris" on the cover design than the US version and the UK version of freedom, painting a variety of styles, artistic nature is strong, and in the last three there are also a decade in the design of the cover illustration is the US version and the UK version is a much more particular part.
After analysis and induction, discovered early fashion magazine in order to meet the ever-changing social trends in different countries for more than a cover design on a different layout techniques, the font, the application of decorative lace background echoes with contemporary design, the cover art of the character modeling, clothing, dress is also in line with the historical events and popular trend, showing a fashion magazine will never walk in the forefront of the times the value and significance. In addition to reflecting the best stage fashion illustrator era phenomenon, but also an illustrator art show personal characteristics, strong style of painting, which allow readers to see at a glance the cover was drawn by the same illustrator, and signed on the cover of its draw their names, these special technique of expression is an early feature of the cover of a fashion magazine, but also the aesthetic development of the most valuable assets and processes.
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