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Figure 1: Douglas Annand Source: http://recollection.com.au/biographies/a/les-antonio
Douglas Annand was known as one of the most brilliant and versatile eclectic (wrong word) in Australia. He was not only a graphic designer but also an artist, watercolorist, textile designer, muralist and sculptor. People described him as a man with enormous ability and have he made a great contribution on to the development of modernism in Australia.
Annand was born on 22 March 1903 at in Queensland. His parents are both Queenslanders. His culture which is Australian did really have an impact on how he developed his style of drawings and how he has developed through his career. In 1920, Annand went to study a commercial course at CT …show more content…
As a well-known designer, his work was very detail and stylish cover design for The Home magazine in the 1930. There are a few covers that really stand out of the series that Annand did for The Home at that time such as “the typist” and “lady with feather in hat”. Annand focus on building ideas from what he see and what people might want to see in that current period of time. , all of his work has become a new modern standard in the design industry as he broke new ground for it. After “the Home” magazine was released, many artists in all over Australia has been influenced by Annand because of his style and how he choose the materials to deliver the meaning of the artwork to the viewer. He also changes the idea of how designers should do with their exhibition. He had learnt from the Paris exhibition that he went to in 1937 that in order to get visitors to walk through the exhibition, he need to change how the exhibition actually works (The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW: 1842 - 1954) Saturday 29 April 1939, page 12). By adding photography and murals and many modern layout to the exhibition, he was able to communicate and work with many designers, architects, artists and photographer to work as a team. He really broke a new ground for new designers and many other …show more content…
It was not the first time that Annand have done a cover for The Home Magazine. “Lady with feather in hat” was one of the most stylish and fashionable out of twentieth covers that he has done before. It really shows the idea of 1930s fashion through the use of Minimalist expression and Modernism elements.
The woman form Annand have chosen for his first cover of The Home was simple and sophisticated and portrayed 1930s fashion, and the majority of his cover designs, Annand kept experience with collage and get used to with it( in many of his work). He created this artwork with the use of perfect shape and the way he chose his material as well (wire, feather). Annand carefully chose the background and he even emphasized the work by the blur rectangle red shape to create illusion and to make the subject really stand out

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