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The style is basically Constructivist. It was a dominant style in Soviet Russia in the 30s and 40s and still influences graphic design in that part of the world today (no coincidence that your examples are German and Polish). Bauhaus and Art Deco were both influences.

Like "fantasy," "wacky" is not in the Dictionary of Spiffy Type Terminology. :) I get from your question, and the exchange with e100, that you're asking about decorative type rather than "typefaces that would be good when designing a fantasy MMORPG." A decorative face is, for the most part, one that doesn't fit in any of the categories used to describe ...

I'd call that "Fake 3D" (or Fake "stereoscopic 3D", as suggested in comments) style. People started copying the 2D look of this 3D faking technique probably without realizing what it originally is used for. The red/green channels left and right of the original black logo shape mimic a technique used to make things appear 3D when viewed through glasses with ...

In the field of computing, 'icon' is certainly the most popular term for it. I believe it has been used in this field since the early 1980s when the first mouse-controlled graphical user interfaces emerged (Xerox, Apple) Outside the digital world, these simplified and standardized graphics have been called pictograms / pictographs since long before this ...

The effect you're talking about is called Vertical Alignment, in this case bottom vertical alignment. In design applications like InDesign (but not Illustrator without hacking, moan whinge moan...) there's a simple button for it. In HTML / CSS, vertical alignment isn't so simple. Vertical alignment for a table cell is easy, vertical-align: bottom; starts ...

They both fall under the Swiss Style of Graphic Design History of Visual Communications from Citrinitas Lessons from Swiss Style Graphic Design from Smashing Mag Swiss / International Style Lecture Slides from Parkland College

Since no one mentioned it yet , a visual artifact like that you showed in the picture can be also called a 3D Anaglyph http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaglyph_3D. This is mostly obtained by getting a stereoscopic photo by the use of two cameras and overlapping them so the addition of some channels is not exactly aligned (usually Red and Blue). You can fake ...

It's called a Halftone From Wikipedia: Halftone is the reprographic technique that simulates continuous tone imagery through the use of dots, varying either in size, in shape or in spacing. "Halftone" can also be used to refer specifically to the image that is produced by this process. It is used to produce the appearance of continuous tone images in ...

The lines is a form of shading technique used when etching. (See your money, for an example). While the example of the lettering is clearly a form of Tattoo lettering, Art Nouveau, as Stefan points out, is an applicable term for the broad style: https://www.google.com/search?q=Art+Nouveau+lettering However, the particular lettering used for Ink-n-Iron I'd ...

I'm not 100% sure what you're asking for, but: Serifs are a specific feature of a typeface; ModernAntiqua has serifs so it would definitely be considered a serif font. But you could also give it other classifications, such as "post-modern", perhaps. "Fantasy" isn't really a very specific or commonly used classification, although it is defined as a generic ...

The typical method of producing those posters (and money) is known as intaglio printing; this process used etched copper or zinc plates. This allowed for much finer lines and longer print runs (since the plates lasted longer) than woodcut printing. The downside to this method was that it was an "all or nothing" type of thing - ink was either applied or it ...

It's a vector drawing . From Wikipedia: Vector graphics is the use of geometrical primitives such as points, lines, curves, and shapes or polygon(s), which are all based on mathematical equations, to represent images in computer graphics. This character could be created with the help of Illustrator or Inkscape. See this link for more information on ...

I'd say it's a mix of vector, grunge, and trendwhore. These works are probably from the 2004-2007 period, right after the trendwhore + 3D style was "flattened out." Here are some similar works (beaucoupzero, who made pictures 2 and 3, refers to his works as "psychedelic"):

I would categorize this as a form of Psychedelic Art. Granted, the colours are "grungy" and muted compared to most other Psychedelic Art, but the style is similar. I agree with Alan that many people would call it simply "grunge", but I think the psychedelic roots are quite evident. Here is a link with more examples of digital Psychedelic Art. I think you'll ...

You're looking for a typeface with low crossbars. While that might be a difficult term to search from, you might start out by looking through those that have a small x-height. These will occasionally have low crossbars as well, to match with the height of the lowercase letters.

I don't think this has a specific name beyond 'curly border'. You can find templates for graphics like these at any decent stock site, like http://www.istockphoto.com, http://www.shutterstock.com or http://www.fotolia.com. Try searching for 'border ornament' or similar terms.

To add a little background on word clouds... Usually in a word cloud, the sizes of the words are linked in some way to the relative importance of that word. For example: Sites like Wordle allow manual weighting so you can ensure that the size of each word is appropriate. There are tools that analyse text and generate word clouds based on the frequency of ...

As was mentioned here, and on LogoLounge.com's 2012 Logo Design Trends report, it's called Anaglyph. LogoLounge's Bill Gardner had this to say about the use of the Anaglyph trend in logo design: Messaging from these marks creates a dichotomy of choice. They are obvious enough that certainly no special glasses are required to grasp the intent. This ...

The RSA Animate videos are created by CognativeMedia using ydraw. This style of is often referred to as "animated vignettes" named after "animated narrative vignette," an instructional technology used in education. An animated narrative vignette (ANV) is an instructional technology used to motivate and facilitate role-playing, problem solving, and ...

This style is often referred to by the name of vexel. It is a mixture of pixel and vector artworks. The easiest way to start something like this is probably to vectorize scenery from photos of the area you want to show in Illustrator and then blend it together with photos in Photoshop.

What you are looking for are User Interfaces(UI). Futuristic is the type of style that you would like the UI to be in. There are plenty of websites with tons of UI resources for inspiration or for you to use. Here are two links to get you started: http://www.uiparade.com/ ...

I think in general Futuristic might work but Futurists and Futurist Artists are not at all what the asker is looking for. Some might call it that anyways but it would be uncommon as "Futurism" comes from facist Italy. You should try looking for "Techno Designs" or "High Tech Interfaces" and that should start you off in the right direction.

I'm not quite sure if this is the right site to ask this question but here is an example of what you need (for IE, works in 8 and above): <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <style> .tile {width:200px; height:100px; background-color:#FFFF00; vertical-align:bottom; ...

Neutraface – from 2002, but inspired by the modernist typefaces used by architect Richard Neutra for building signage during the first half of the 20th century (Futura came from that era too.) http://www.houseind.com/fonts/neutraface/fontspecimens

Hmm, using words like vintage, parchment and circus/carnival get a few things similar to what you're talking about, as well as maybe burlesque. It seems the reason they are two tone is because they were printed in newspapers etc. I searched "1880's vintage advert" and "burlesque advert 1880's" and they're mainly two tone and have the ink lines.

It's a style meant to emulate old engravings (look at the portraits on american paper money for an example). Traditionally it was done by an engraver, cutting into the plates. The example above appears to be done via a PhotoShop filter. There's several on the market that can do that. It's often a form of a halftoning filter.

"Wall Street Journal style." :) Also referred to as woodcut and the WSJ's proprietary HedCut. If you Google "wall street journal illustration style" and read some of the articles, there are suggestions about how to recreate the look.