Art Deco Rebellion

Posted on July 19, 2009 by Leslie Sigal Javorek | Leave a comment

Posted by: Leslie Sigal Javorek • Date: Sun., July 19, 2009 12:32am

Our grandparents and great-grandparents were quite the rebellious ones no matter what they say now! Defying the prim modesty and overbearing rules and overdone ornamentation, the Guys & Dolls of the “Lost Generation” in the years after The Great War reveled in the wild world of Flappers, Jazz, Hootch, Hollywood, and the clean industrial-inspired lines for their buildings, clothing, furnishings, artwork and all that surrounded them.

I’ve created a huge, multi-part series of icons representing my personal interpretation and tribute to those early masters of Art Deco design. Because of the sheer number of icons, I’m breaking down the series into bite-size chunks with a new group to be posted daily. (If you’re afraid you’ve missed a prior posting, select: “Icons” and “Art Deco” from the CATEGORIES drop-down menu in the right-hand sidebar.)

So without any further ado …. 23 Skidoo!

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The Constraints of WordPress.Com

Posted on July 17, 2009 by Leslie Sigal Javorek | Leave a comment

Posted by: Leslie Sigal Javorek • Date: Fri., July 17, 2009 11:35 pm

Well, my original mission has been scuttled to some extent due to my failure to discern the difference between WordPress.Com and WordPress.Org before getting started. To be honest, I hadn’t even realized that these were two separate entities! Silly me. But being a good little geek, once I start working on a project I’m not one to quit just because there will be a few more challenges than I expected. For those who aren’t aware, the primary difference between these two services that most concerns the interface designer is that a blog on WordPress.Com can only be customized with CSS (cascading style sheets), selecting from a limited number of widgets, and the text or images you add as content. You can’t add or modify using javascript, ajax, python, php or other languages nor can you modify the .html. While my first reaction upon realizing these constraints was to utter numerous expletives (newly invented just for this occasion) I decided to stick with this and explore just how far one can go with CSS. I suppose that’s one of the trademarks of being a card-carrying geekster in that I am stubborn as coffee stain on a favorite pair of white jeans when it comes to figuring things out just to be able to proudly say, “I done it from scratch”. Of course, no one (but a geek) really cares about such trifles as long as the content of the blog is interesting and the visuals aren’t annoying. Hard to explain why I get off on trying to reinvent the wheel but take my word for it, it’s the second most thrilling and satisfying thing I can think of.

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A Century Ahead of it’s Time

Posted on July 16, 2009 by Leslie Sigal Javorek | 1 Comment

Posted by: Leslie Sigal Javorek • Date: Thur July 16, 2009 4:47pm

It was the late 1970’s and I was about to be married, looking around my Salvation Army chic apartment, friends and family wisely assumed those furnishings were not representative of my taste so asked my fiancé and I what we liked. When we told them “anything Art Deco” almost all of them responded with a totally blank face, admitting that they had never even heard of Art Deco! While examples of it were everywhere, it seems to have been widely dismissed by the average middle-class, mid-western American as a soul-less aberration that failed to respect their “old country” heritage. Forty years later (and almost a century after its’ infancy, Art Deco is finally getting the respect it deserves.

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