Barney Bubbless: Influential Graphic Design

Barney Bubbles was a very influential graphic designer who walked a very tough life journey, but accomplished the unbelievable despite the challenges he faced. He is not widely recognized but contributed a great deal to music sleeve design of London, England’s punk and postmodernism movements. Bubbles design style was influenced by a variety of different movements, some of which he learned by doing large amounts of research during his free time.. Barney Bubbles, born Colin Fulcher, was born on July 30,1942 in London, England. Beginning in 1958 he attended Twickenham College of Technology, while in school Fulcher designed posters for performances by bands, such as Muleskinners and the Rolling Stones. Between 1963 and 1965 Colin Fulcher won

He used the ideas from Art Nouveau, Art Deco, constructivism, and fellow artists like Wassily Kandinsky. Art Nouveau was a movement from the late 19th early 20th century, that inspired the use of geometric, and organic forms, ultimately making natural forms more angular. Art Deco was a material style movement from the 1920s, that was a blend of modernity with classical pasts. Those were expressed through geometric shapes and streamlined forms; it was a sophisticated kind of elegant. Constructivism movement was one of art and architecture that was geared towards unity or social change since it developed after World War I. The style of the movement was abstract and accepted modernity, normally geometric, but was preferred to be of objective form not subjective. Artists like Wassily Kandinsky were abstract expressionists, embracing the expressionism movement, that was geared towards showing emotion and universal themes. They blended the concepts of surrealism and abstract art to generate a style that fit postwar moods (anxiety, trauma). Bubbles used key elements of all these movements that were before his time in his work, which defined his style. He used the elements of color, geometry, symbols, and art history, as well as others in his visual designs. The styles used in Bubbles work always went against what society accepted as design