This is a collection of baroque style (ornamental) design, this style originates from baroque styles of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and the word baroque can also simply mean that something is elaborate with many details. [Further Reading]
This style can be incorporated in to Logos, T-Shirts, Posters, Type … Anything
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Shiny Binary
I had to add shiny binaries “Perfect porftolio” piece for Digital Arts Magazine and “Mystic” that was inspired by Eastern style statues and carvings, you can clearly see the statue within the image and the ornate flourishes.
Shaeriff
This pencilled etching is great way to see how the shadows and the darker crevices give the ornamental style its three dimensions
Opera78
An Amsterdam based illustrator that goes by the studio mane of opera78 has a great drawing style so checking out some of his personal and commercial work is a good idea.
One Twenty Six
Based in New York One Twenty Six produces some great packaging and branding, you can also see some of the ornate designs in there logo designs.
Shepard Fairy
This guy has a real eye for poster design and you can check out his fine art collection for some more inspiring examples of his work. i also found this image via abduzeedos a mixed inspiration post to look through.
J R Velasco
a great example of these ornate finishes is on this website header, wrapping around other illustrations and hand drawn elements. The old vintage look gives it even more character and era.
Irish Wind
Great baroque style technical pen drawing in the making just goes to show how much time and effort goes in to such a piece like this.
Igraver
This website has a great visual tutorial on how to recreate this style from start to finish
I Cant Hear
I Cant Hear design studio with some great work and sketches of work in progress gives a good understanding of work flow to final piece, as seen below a sketch and final piece in vector form is mind blowing.
Guarniero
Has some great collections of old scans on his flickr
Eduardo Cife
Eduardo Cife of Misprinted Type has some awesome illustration work from book covers to posters. a true vintage style that you can see throughout his work.
Ansel Olson
Ansel has some inspiring sets on flickr from photos to scans like the one shown below, decorated type is another great way to incorporate this style.
Anouther Great decorated alphabet.
Bibliodyssey
Very detailed breath taking ornate typography incorporating cherubs, birds and statues.
86era
A designer from Russia known a 86era due to being born in 1986, also found via ilovetypography inspiring type
Comments
I would put this style high up in my favourites and i find it very inspiring to look at others work and how they can incorporate it in to designs such as web sites, Typography and posters you name it and it can be done, adding extra flair and interest.
Do you get inspired by this style or know some great pieces of work to share? Please leave a comment.
Author of this post: Max Stanworth
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Irish Wind is awe inspiring. Max is this your work or just a source of inspiration?
An inspiration post, im no where near as good as that haha, each picture links to the source.
I can’t imagine the talent involved to create stuff like this. It must come naturally to some people.
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Really nice collection, I love the pen design ones. Hmm I’m gonna have to get drawing and scanning.
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great pices of work!!!….true , powerfull & inspirational!!!
nice ^^
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incredible drawings…thanks for the inspiration
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Always been a fan of Design Shard, and this just makes it even better! Awesome inspiration, beautiful typography and design.
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Hi, I’m not sure if this is appropriate, but I’m looking for someone to design or at least assist with designing my upcoming website. I want it to have a very French, Baroque theme. Would you be interested in selling some things (e.g., background images, button images, etc.)? Sorry if this is inappropriate here. I just stumbled on to this site. Thanx!
I am in absolute love with anything involving acanthus leaves and decadence (: Great inspiration, think I’ll sketch something out tonight. (:
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These are beautiful!
Awesome designs. I like.
@Jeremy – Yea i need to buy some fine liners! good luck
@NJK – All words are now correct thanks for spell chcking it! funny thing is i used word to write it, and it said all was fine. Feel free to check my other articles too :)
Some lovely designs…but please (ouch!) use a spell-check. It’s free!
crevaces (crevices)
oranamental (ornamental)
flare = either a rocket-like signal or a widening;
flair = stylish, embellishment
allot = verb meaning portion or mete;
a lot = a large quantity
Beautiful collection, the detail and the time the went into creating these works amazes me. You’ve inspired me to step away from photoshop this weekend and break out the pencil/paper combo to see what I can come up with. Thanks for sharing these.
very nice designs thank you for share..
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Great designs. They look so vintage and classic. I love them. something right our of a story book.
Great collection, thanks for sharing.
Love the decorated text by Ansel Olson and the 86era work. Stunning.
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Wonderful collection! My favorites are Perfect Portfolio and Beautiful Decay.
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@Andrew – Yea takes a great mind set to envisage something so complex
@ Frank, Yea i see what you mean they are all very similar trends in history, there all great either way thanks for the input.
I hate to rain on your parade, but many of the styles are not “Baroque.” Some are, but others are Rococo or even Art Deco.
That said, they are great designs and thank you for sharing them.
That’s a great collection of images Max.
In this day and age, I’m pretty tired of seeing very talented pieces of design works, but with no real concept behind them―just being trigger-happy in Photoshop.
But most of these pieces display real talent and conceptualisation. I love stuff love this…Great stuff.
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@ Bruno – Yea i cant get enough of them! they can be so complex
@David – I know what you mean im going to try and get a few in to my web designs, your hand drawn technique may come in useful too !
http://www.from-the-couch.com/post.cfm/title/technique-for-creating-a-hand-drawn-website
This is a really cool post. Look at some of that stuff makes me want to print and trace them!
Nice!
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Great Research!
I love baroque ornaments!