Weaving Through Design History: Gothic

Okay. So officially the most complex poster I’ve done so far. Took me somewhere around 20 hrs probably. Apart from the time consuming process of individually adding textures to each “glass panel”, the actual Blacklettering took me a few hours since I drew it with a marker on paper.

Gothic art and architecture was a style that originated in the 12th century out of Romanesque art, so definitely a jump back in time compared to all my previous modern designs. It would change and evolve over the centuries until it was almost completely replaced by Renaissance art in the 15th century. Although Gothic art was a significant influence to the Art Nouveau movement (mostly for its architecture though).

During Medieval times in Europe, light was considered very sacred, even divine. With the architecture advances that came during the Gothic era walls could be made much taller, thinner, and lighter (due largely to flying buttresses, which are really cool!). This allowed for most walls to be replaced by glass, more often than not, stained glass.