Geometric

The popular movement of the early 20th century. At the core, a collection of ideas and thoughts rejecting the past and striving to reinvent the basic elements of everyday life. The resulting aesthetic is one of sleek clean lines with the elimination of decorative additions that are purely for the sake of embellishment. 

Art Nouveau

Taking inspiration from the unruly aspects of the natural world, Art Nouveau influenced art and architecture especially in the applied arts, graphic work and illustration. Sinuous lines and “whiplash” curves were derived, in part, from botanical studies and illustrations of deep-sea organisms such as those by German biologist Ernst Heinrich Haeckel