# data[].attributes.body
VHUTEMAS school emerged in the Soviet Russia two years before Bauhaus and was a leading school in terms of setting a completely new trends of graphic design and architecture. It has also contributed to many art spheres: textiles,  product design, sculpture and fine art.

# data[].attributes.body
Truck art is a popular form of indigenous art used widely on trucks, buses and other vehicles across the country. Featuring vibrant floral patterns, slogans, bright coloured text and calligraphy, truck art has increasingly come to be known as Pakistan's cultural identity.

Truck drivers use the unique art style to distinguish their vehicles from others. Neon coloured animals, poetry, mirrors and plastic ornaments are all incorporated in truck art; which is not only restricted to trucks and buses, but is also seen on rickshaws, vespas, fruit carts and even walls.

# data[].attributes.body
This poster reminds me of school, the soft pastel colours and typeface that are synonymous with any sort of 'advertising' they created. It also reminds me of using pencil shavings to shade around the edges all of my books.

# data[].attributes.headline
Another Poster 426 "ZigZag" - Gary Percival

# data[].attributes.subject
Another Poster 426 "ZigZag" - Gary Percival

# data[].attributes.body
Gary Percival's 'Another Poster' project sees him share posters to his website daily. Each poster has a theme and the way he visually communicates each theme is always very creative. I would recommend you look at his Instagram for inspiration (@another_poster). Quality and quantity!

# data[].attributes.headline
 Disney shorts animation poster from the 1930’s 

# data[].attributes.subject
 Disney shorts animation poster from the 1930’s 

# data[].attributes.headline
Zac Retz - Into The SpiderVerse Concept Art

# data[].attributes.subject
Zac Retz - Into The SpiderVerse Concept Art

# data[].attributes.body
This film is one of the best representations of myself as a designer that i could ever find in modern day media. The comic book pop art style layered over the 3D animation, mixed with the city aesthetics of graffiti and neon, not to mention the major hip hop influences. I also majorly relate to this film as a mixed raced man, as the main character is also of mixed descent. To see all these aspects come together in one film, representing all gather respective communities. I simply love it so much. Around the same time of this film coming out, i was gaining a better understanding of the art and design world, which is why this film is so synonymous with my journey. This piece here is the concept art of probably the most famous scene from the film. I still remember seeing it for the first time in the teaser trailer.
- PresTeej/TJ

# data[].attributes.body
Album and film (of the same name) about London contemporary jazz scene and how new young musicians are the figureheads of this movement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwCCfWiYk2s

# data[].attributes.body
Animated comic-book style promotional advertising for Parliament-funkadelic's album. I think he is CRIMINALLY underrated- the lines are messy and fluid and the character designs are incredibly eye-catching, not to mention incredibly dynamic. Furthermore, I feel that the way that he animated the swagger of the characters' walks really compliment the style of the music of Parliament-Funkadelic

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
P Funk TV Ads (1977/1979) | Overton Loyd  George Clinton

# data[].attributes.body
Growing up I've always seen trucks dressed up in bright and loud colours. I find it charming that truck drivers adorn their trucks as these trucks often become their homes, especially for long haul truck drivers. These designs are often hand painted which give them a more personalized touch.

# data[].attributes.body
I just love how vivid and colourful Myerscough's work is! Instantly recognisable and super attention-grabbing. This piece was created in response the the COVID19 crisis as a 'thank you' to the frontline workers.

# data[].attributes.body
Very inspirational Russian graphic designer that is constantly creating new exciting work for fashion brands and talented musicians (I think that he also collaborated with CSM at some point??)
He uses multiple techniques to distort his images and his artworks always look fresh and unique

Sofiia

# data[].attributes.body
RuPaul has always been an iconic. So it was only fitting that I chose the campaign to be in the visual archive. RuPaul partnered with M.A.C to debut the iconic red lipstick. The Viva Glam Campaign raised money and awareness for HIV/AIDS at a time when the pandemic was dramatically affecting fashion communities, as well as the wider world. - aisha

# data[].attributes.headline
Trainspotting poster by Stylorouge, 1996

# data[].attributes.subject
Trainspotting poster by Stylorouge, 1996

# data[].attributes.body
This poster really enlightened me the power of typography.  The type manages to convey chaos whilst still being easily readable. This much of type was unusual for a film poster, which is why it stands out so much.
Rosie

# data[].attributes.headline
The Movie Poster for one of my favourite movies - Incendies by Denis Villeneuve - Ventcislava 4b

# data[].attributes.subject
The Movie Poster for one of my favourite movies - Incendies by Denis Villeneuve - Ventcislava 4b

# data[].attributes.headline
Robert Beatty – "Currents" Album cover Tame Impala 2015.

# data[].attributes.subject
Robert Beatty – "Currents" Album cover Tame Impala 2015.

# data[].attributes.body
"Graphic art inspired by turbulent flow, the way gas or liquid travels around an object." I adore how this cover is so dynamic and  hard to forget; it plays with texture, composition and conveys brilliantly this ambiance of "flow" of the album. More generally I think it's a very good example of design process "recycling". Influenced by 70's aesthetic of op art and "psychedelic" it shows how designing is about looking at   inspirations and adding our own contemporary touch in it.

- Clara.

Please if you want to read more go there!

# data[].attributes.body
(This may be more of a subculture but I'm posting anyway lol)
This area of design although rarely discussed is a consistent influence on my design process and I would go as far to credit these posters and flyers as my favourite source of inspiration.

# data[].attributes.body
ollie Bell

# data[].attributes.headline
Jimmy Cliff- Cover of album 'The Harder They Come' 

# data[].attributes.subject
Jimmy Cliff- Cover of album 'The Harder They Come' 

# data[].attributes.body
Worn by the icon that is Bernard Hinault (AKA 'the badger') and was inspired by Piet Modrian's 'Composition en rouge, jaune et bleau'. The choice of design was suggested to the designers by an art student, and has gone on to become one of the most iconic cycling jersey's ever designed.
- Ashley

# data[].attributes.headline
John Gorham Album Cover for the band Metronomy.

# data[].attributes.subject
John Gorham Album Cover for the band Metronomy.

# data[].attributes.body
I really like this album, I discovered it last year when I was living in Paris and would listen to it every week. The cover, even if it wasn't specially designed for this album, fits perfectly with the atmosphere that the songs create. Using the work of John Gorham was an act of paying homage to him. - Ventci

# data[].attributes.body
I remember dancing to the songs of Michael Jackson’s Thriller in the living room with my family as a child. Watching the old music videos full of excitement and feeling as if I was part of them. Practicing all the dance moves.

Michael Jackson’s music seemed like a binding element not just between me and my parents, but between generations - a powerful thing that energised the whole house and the whole world.

# data[].attributes.body
I find Cage's work so experimental and unexpected even all these years after it was composed. The piano is played, not only by using the keys, but also by plucking the strings with finger nails, slamming the keyboard lid, playing cymbal beaters on the strings, striking the keyboard lid etc. Pedalling is also notated in full detail.

# data[].attributes.body
Best known for his hyper-mod, space age design and captitalising on the popularity of Mary Quant's mini-skirt/mini dress wave, I find Andre Courreges to be such an integral part of 1960s fashion history- He coincided with the rise of using plastics and PVC in fashion, creating more graphic and (a)symmetrical silhouettes for womenswear. I coincidentally found a vintage kaftan of his in a charity shop for £15- I'm still beating myself up for not buying it :(( i'm definitely not bitter.

# data[].attributes.body
An Educational video produced in 1946 talking about menstruation. I find it interesting to see a playful take on this issue ( sounds like a disney movie!) - Ruby

# data[].attributes.body
This poster is about USSR’s fashion in 40’s-60’s. In the poster is said «»A corrupt soul”.

P.S. Stilyagi  were members of a youth counterculturefrom the late 1940s until the early 1960s in the Soviet Union. A stilyaga, was primarily distinguished by snappy clothing—preferably foreign-label, acquired from fartsovshchiks—that contrasted with the communist realities of the time, and their fascination with zagranitsa, modern Western music and fashions correspondingto that of the Beat Generation. English writings on Soviet culture variously translated the derogatory term as "dandies", "fashionistas", "beatniks", "hipsters", "zoot suiters", etc.

Today, the stilyagi phenomenon is regarded as one of the Russian historical social trends which further developed during the late Soviet era (notably the Stagnation Period) and allowed "informal" views on life, such as hippies, punks and rappers.

# data[].attributes.body
It was totally mind-blowing when I first get in touch with bjork's art, no matter her music or her visual styles. I still remember when i laid in bed and listened to her music which led me to a unique imaginary world. Her experimental and edgy album also provides me a rich archive of inspirations when I explore my own design practices. This particular album, Utopia, has amazed me again not only artistically but also conceptually as its expression of environmentalism.

# data[].attributes.headline
Barbara Jones–Hogu, Unite, 1971, screen print

# data[].attributes.subject
Barbara Jones–Hogu, Unite, 1971, screen print

# data[].attributes.body
From the lecture with Mikael Calandra : " I hope we don't need to produce out of boredom. We need to produce stuff because we want to understand better our humanity, better our humanity complexity and we want to symbolise it, and we want the people to understand that complexity, understand that theory is serving a praxis. We want them to question the canons they know already."

# data[].attributes.body
Produced to accompany an exhibition at the Newcastle Hatton Gallery, 2 March - 5 May 1959. Featuring Victor Pasmore, a London artist who is locally most know for his 1969 brutalist sculpture the Apollo Pavilion - in my home town! A very controversial piece of public art.

# data[].attributes.body
Poster detailing the live diary in 1996/97 for Newcastle's iconic Riverside venue. Currently on display at the Discovery Museum's online Colourful Discoveries exhibition. https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/colourful-discoveries/kAKiYiuv2GU3Jw

# data[].attributes.body
CND 1962

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
That lot of political posters we purcahsed included one of these. It's for the march to London, in 1962.

This picture is from Ken Garlan's own website.

Our copy of the poster isn't mint; but is all the better for that.

It's a famous image that appears in lots of the TV and still images of the time.

The poster is pretty rare I think.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
CND Aldermaston to London * Ken Garland * 1962

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
That lot of political posters we purcahsed included one of these. It's for the march to London, in 1962. This picture is from Ken Garlan's own website. Our copy of the poster isn't mint; but is all the better for that. It's a famous image that appears in lots of the TV and still images of the time.

# data[].attributes.body
France 1950s

# data[].attributes.body
CND 1961

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
BANG * CND Committee of 100 * Fletcher/Forbes/Gill * 1962 Cropping + Scaling Effects (or Bigger + Better)

We purchased a group of interesting political posters from the early 1960s recently. They arrived in the post today. That's ecxciting.

This is the best of them, in my opinion.

It's a poster for the CND splinter-group, Committe of 100. That was a group which espoused civil disobedience and direct-action. That's always exciting...

The poster was designed by Fletcher/Forbes/Gill. That's excititng too.

Alan Fletcher, Colin Forbes and Bob Gill, were the founder partners of what became later, with the addition of Kenneth Grange and Theo Crosby, Pentagram.

This poster is exciting from a typographic point of view too.

The default settings of tpography devolve from letterpress printing - range left, or range right; and, if you don't know anything about typography, centre the text.

These settings reflect the tendency to think of the format and paper size as a kind of frame and to position things in the middle. The centered poition, along with colour and scale, make us understand the message as important. In the western tradition this derives from the geometric space of Renaissance painting, and onwards.

The choice of type is a kind of over-scaled and condensed sans-serif. The choice of sans lettering is significant too; for its alignment with a specific form of international modernism. In condensed and extra-bold form, the type has more drama and punch. So, the typographic choice has both an intellectual and emotional depth that fits with the message.

Now, if you tilt the text and crop the lettering, so that it bleeds off the edge of the poster, you make the message even more dynamic and powerful.

It actually looks like what it says, and does...BANG! It's explosive.

That's really exciting, and not in a completely good way... In terms of comunication; it hits the spot exactly, and it's impossible not to reflect upon the meanings of the message.

If you look really carefully at the poster, there is a slight misalignment in the registration of the red and green printings. Even that helps...it makes for a slight optical disturbance, and adds to the emotional impact of the design. It produces a proto-psychedelic effect that expresses the latent anxiety that informed the birth of CND and the counter-culture of the later 1960s.

The green and red are, co-incidentally, the basis of 3D effects.

I think that last effect was unintentional and serendipitous...maybe, even subconscious. That's even better.

Nowadays, we take all this for granted.

But, back in the 1960s, this was at the leading-edge of graphic design, as-was and typography.

It wasn't completely new though.

The advent of lithography had, from the beginning of the 20C onwards, faciliated a more dynamic form of typography and a progressively more complete integration of type and image (Futurism and Vorticism). You can see this in the poster designs of Cheret, Lautrec and Bernhard to begin with. And in the publication, Blast (1914), although the page layouts, below, look pretty static by today's standards.

The cropping effects, of scale and signifcance, were derived from the example of Japanese prints and early 19C photography. As modern life accelerated, the early photography struggled to keep up. Things moved out of frame and became more dynamic...think of Degas and co.

The Constructivist modernists, in Germany and the USSR, went even further. They conceptualised a graphic language of pure colour, scale and form (El Lissitsky), and promoted a unified integration of photo-mechanical and typographic elements. That's typo-photo (Moholy Nagy), from the 1930s.

Even the asymmetric typography of Jan Tischichold (from the 1920s onwards) tended to keep everything within the frame though.

It took a while for the technology to catch up with these ideas. Until the 1960s, it was difficult to realise these kinds of ideas on a poster-sized scale.

So, this modest poster is right at the forefront of what was possible, in the early 1960s; both practically and conceptually. That's a lot of poster by Fletcher/Forbes/Gill.

The poster is included in Bob Gill's Portfolio (1968). So, credit to Bob Gill specifically.

In this context, framing the poster will be an interesting philosophical problem...practically, I will want to be able to display it; conceptually, I will not want to impose a structure or frame around it...

I've posted before about typographic journals in Britain. Here are some pictures of Typography, published in 1938 and 1939. You can see them moving slowly towards what Fletcher/Forbes/Gill were doing twenty years later. It was all in small-format though.

After this came Typographica, published in two series, and the dynamic typography, in cinema, of Saul Bass (for Alfred Hitchcock and for other directors) and of Robert Brownjohn (for the James Bond films).

In political terms, the frame was understood as intrinsically conservative. As Brecht and Dziga-Vertov (1920s) understood, the proscenium-arch of traditional theatre, for example, positions and fixes the players, and audience, within the established discourses of bourgeois entertainments, and within a space that was politically fixed.

The counter-culture of the 1960s acknowledged that the established systems and structures of cultural discourse were therefore intrinsically limiting. Breaking free of these structures and strictures became the first-step in a long march.

It's not just about the politics either; as evidenced, above, things actually work better as communication too...

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
BANG * CND Committee of 100 * Fletcher/Forbes/Gill * 1962 Cropping + Scaling Effects (or Bigger + Better)

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
We purchased a group of interesting political posters from the early 1960s recently. They arrived in the post today. That's ecxciting. This is the best of them, in my opinion. It's a poster for the CND splinter-group, Committe of 100. That was a group which espoused civil disobedience and direct-action.

# data[].attributes.body
Ingrid Boulting by Sarah Moon 1969

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Beautiful Biba Poster * Steve Thomas * c1970

This is a lovely new addition to our collection of posters...by Steve Thomas for Biba Cosmetics... from a photograph of Ingrid Boulting by Sarah Moon.

Terrific.

View the discussion thread

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Beautiful Biba Poster * Steve Thomas * c1970

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Beautiful Biba Poster * Steve Thomas * c1970 This is a lovely new addition to our collection of posters...by Steve Thomas for Biba Cosmetics... from a photograph of Ingrid Boulting by Sarah...

# data[].attributes.body
Wong is a political comic artist from Hong Kong. The image below is an iconic image back from 1989 tiananmen square protest

# data[].attributes.body
This poster is from the film "Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol" (Black God, White Devil). It was designed by one of the most important Brazilian graphic designers, Rogério Duarte. He was a musician, designer and writer that contributed immensely to Brazil's cultural movement "Tropicália", which took place in the end of the 1960s (Brazil's dictatorship). I'm very passionate about studying this particular time in Brazilian History and most of my favourite music is from this turbulent time. The film belongs to the "Cinema Novo" movement, addressing the socio-political problems of 1960s Brazil and it's one of the most impactful films I've ever watched.

Ana Ramos

# data[].attributes.body
Strong feeling with simple colour used and brown colour tone in the image. Gently with lines and colours. Giving comfortable mood and feeling to me. Mucha has showing the women beauty through the graphic design and describing the other perspectives about women. Thick lines stands out the shape of the character and blur the details. Lovely design ideas and the personal style through this collection.

# data[].attributes.headline
La Chaîne Simpson -- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

# data[].attributes.subject
La Chaîne Simpson -- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

# data[].attributes.body
This poster has been conceived by French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. I have always appreciated Toulouse-Lautrec's works for their organic lines, the solid colours and the balance between subject and negative space.

# data[].attributes.body
Happy together, a homosexual movie that was released back in 1997 Hong Kong. The topic was definitely not a common one back then but still after twenty years has passed, it is something that the majority would avoid to talk about.

Being heterosexual is like a responsibility and a must when you are born into an asian family, especially in chinese family. You are suppose to marry and have a baby to pass on the generation, it is a tradition.

It is really ironic and funny whenever I heard the older generation just saying "oh it fine to be homo, just not my own son or daughter."  People in Hong Kong would always pretend they are all so openminded and be able to adapt to something that they are not used to, as soon as they have put on the 'nice' mask, they begin to make offensive jokes to the topics. This did not just happen to sexuality but all others things, such as race and class. It is a city which has shit loads of discriminations.

There is a political meaning behind the movie as well, check that out if you want to know more!

# data[].attributes.headline
Brighton Festival 1993, illustration by Gary Goodman

# data[].attributes.subject
Brighton Festival 1993, illustration by Gary Goodman

# data[].attributes.body
Hitler as a teapot!

# data[].attributes.body
This sticker was made to be stuck onto telephones as a reminder that someone else could be listening

# data[].attributes.body
Made in Japan, Tadanori Yokoo, Having Reached a Climax at the Age of 29, I Was Dead, from Tadanori Yokoo
Even he had been well-known at his young 20s, most of Tadanori Yokoo's works were commissioned and he felt less free to express himself in his own artwork. However, for the first time he used his own experiences as elements in this piece. I've always love his aesthetics, and his moves of showing his own identity also have left great impact on me on design practices.

# data[].attributes.body
Railway posters
posterhouse.org/blog/railway-posters-from-britain-1923-1939

Origins of the Modern poster
paulsposterproject.rennart.co.uk/post/28267198215/history-01-origins-of-the-modern-poster

paulsposterproject.rennart.co.uk/post/28766225033/history-02-the-sociology-of-desire-and-the

paulsposterproject.rennart.co.uk/post/46757670153/history-03-the-sociology-of-desire-zola-and

TV
Age of Image (BBC)
Paris (BBC)

# data[].attributes.body
This is not a poster to be particular, but the movement and concept of "The style" played an important place in my journey to choose Graphic Design. The aesthetic of plain geometric shapes and lines educated me that this can be graphic design as well. As a manga lover, I found myself mesmerised in this type of visual language.

# data[].attributes.body
I love this 1940's poster Egyptian poster which i am familiar with as i have watched it many times growing up. This poster gives an insight of my culture which tends to be overlooked or forgotten about. During the 40's and 50's posters were hand-painted which gave them a certain quality and distinct feel to them. Graphic design during the golden era of Egyptian film was evolving and emerging, where new typefaces where created for Arabic lettering as well as English. Western influences of graphic/poster design are also evident.

# data[].attributes.body
This is a poster that shows the internet! In the 1940s. The image catches the logic of networks and shows how integration facilitates the acceleartion
of modern life

# data[].attributes.body
by Robert Brownjohn

Brownjohn was best known for his title sequences for the James Bond films From Russia with Loveand Goldfinger, Robert Brownjohn had a short but influential career, which integrated design, advertising, film, photography, and music. He experimented his work with various types of mediums, and one of them was [lithograph].

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
See all the wonderful things Anoushka Khandwala has made

# data[].attributes.body
This is one of many adaptations of a popular Hong Kong protest slogan.
A new law was declared, and the safety of pro-democracy supporters in Hong Kong was challenged to a whole new level. Freedom of speech and opinion had come to an end, but many pro-democracy supporters still had a lot to say.
These shapes are very average, but they actually replicate the characters of a common protest slogan that is known to all those who support the movement. Other examples of adaptations include the very minimal-yet clever-use of numbers, letters, everyday symbols, and punctuation. In using imagery that has no initial relation to the movement, supporters are able to avoid likely arrest. This highlights the resilience and strong-will of the protestors, as well as their quick-wit.
The movement alone sparked a huge wave of remarkable protest art and graphic designs.

# data[].attributes.body
This poster designed by Keith Haring during the 80s was one of the first artworks he’s done at the beginning of his career. He displayed them on the subway billboards, they just represent love, and equality.
I like these posters cause they can also be considered as art pieces, and for their visual language too.

# data[].attributes.body
This poster is an iconic example of New Zealand, Maori modern artwork. It has been translated into multiple posters and has been used to represent the different beliefs and values of Maori Culture.

Coming from New Zealand it is very important to me, as I look at it as an incredibly powerful projection of the strength and unitedness of the culture at home.

The play on positive and negative lines is very successful as it creates a high impact. The shape of the Koru fern outline are also incredibly symbolic as it is a native plant, and in Maori artwork it is used to symbolise, strength, new beginnings and family. I feel this is particularly relevant during the uncertainties we are facing with COVID-19. It reminds us how crucial it is to support each other and have empathy towards others.

# data[].attributes.headline
USSR poster. Made by Mayakovsky(famous Russian poet)

# data[].attributes.subject
USSR poster. Made by Mayakovsky(famous Russian poet)

# data[].attributes.body
Firstly, the USSR posters represents my country’s culture, history.
I find posters of that time powerful and interesting in terms of the visual language and typography. The text is humorous and that is why you remember it for a long time.

# data[].attributes.body
This is a poster produced by fairground sign writer Joby Carter, comprising of letters found on Carters Steam fair rides. There is only 500 poster produced, all of which signed and numbered by Joby. I chose the poster as growing up surrounded by steam engines, with our family business restoring these, it was the work on some of these rides which ignited my passion for lettering and signwriting.

# data[].attributes.body
As someone who identifies as LGBTQ+, living in a society that is becoming more and more accepting is a privilege. Sexuality is a part of our identity and not often do we put this part of us into context.

Through school and education, I had this image in my head of AIDS being this horrible disease that sounded like a death sentence and could happen to anyone who wasn’t careful enough.

It wasn’t until recently that I wanted to learn more about the disease, as its history is closely connected to the history of gay and bisexual men.

The 1980’s AIDS Epidemic which started in the US and had also severely affected London, the United Kingdom and the rest of the world was a time of severe discrimination against gay men and unwillingness to protect a minority from a killing disease.

In research of public informational campaigns, I discovered this poster that was part of the ‘State of California AIDS Education Campaign’ in the 1990s, and draws public attention to the disease and stresses the use of condoms as protection from the virus. HIV and the disease AIDS are still a stigmatised topic that needs to be talked about.

# data[].attributes.body
Since recently moving to Brixton, I have been fortunate enough to learn about the immense heritage, culture and tradition that is embedded in my new town.

The poster I chose is from a local artist, Guy Gibson. I saw this on the Instagram page: @save_nour which explains an ongoing battle between the ‘Taylor Tower’ and the community. The tower’s intention is to impose over the dignified Brixton Village, which to most is considered the heart of the town. It would be much appreciated if you could please sign the petition below to help Fight the Tower!

https://www.change.org/p/sadiq-khan-sadiq-khan-stand-with-brixton-stop-taylor-tower-e3e171ec-0bcf-45b7-a47b-b06a3e06f67b?utm_content=cl_sharecopy_26223043_en-GB%3A4&recruiter=11244943&recruited_by_id=ec49d140-dcea-012f-03b7-4040aa777426&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&utm_term=psf_combo_share_initial

# data[].attributes.body
I came across the Navajo Indians while studying tone languages a few years ago and their art style has always stuck with me since they harnessed the healing power of graphic design and use it in their sand paintings in an elaborate healing ritual.

They use graphic design as a visual communication device; the figures in the paintings are symbolic representations of stories in Navajo mythology, which depict objects legendary visions and illustrations of dances or chants performed in rituals.

According to Navajo belief, a sandpainting heals because the ritual image serves as a pathway to the heroes depicted in the paintings. The patient sits on the painting while the chanter performs a ritual to enhance its absorption. Power is thought to be absorbed from the sacred objects depicted and a ritual reality is created in which the patient and the supernatural dramatically interact, reestablishing the patient's sense of connectedness to all of life, upon which the patient's spiritual and physical health will improve.

This merging of time and space into a place where the present and the mythic past coexist fascinated me. All their designs incorporate a circle since they believe life to be a sacred hoop; the circle of life is timeless and ever flowing.

# data[].attributes.headline
Manifestazione Interventista (1914) by Carlo Carrà

# data[].attributes.subject
Manifestazione Interventista (1914) by Carlo Carrà

# data[].attributes.body
This was created as an encouragement for Italy go declare war to Austria. The artist used flyer of the war.

There are represented lots of sounds and onomatopoeia taken from the futurism movement. As main characteristic it has the speed, the exaltation of the modern as well as creates a big gap from the culture of the past.

It matters to me as I’m very fascinated by futurism movement as it’s all Italian and it was created during a very bad period for my country. It is a kind of strong response of what was going on that time.

# data[].attributes.body
The murals of Portugal’s 1974 Carnation revolution. This military coup over through close to 50 years of facist rule, primarily under Antonio Salazar and the Estado Novo Regime. This revolution gave way to massive social and political change in Portugal. Following the revolution murals and paintings began to appear in the streets. Whilst right wing and centrist parties could afford to print posters, financed by other branches or their party across Europe, many left wing parties including the Communist party relied on using street murals to publicise their message and garner support. The majority of these murals were not commissioned but created by ordinary citizens exercising their right to self expression.

# data[].attributes.body
(I'm unfortunately not sure who designed the poster, nor when)
This poster represents the late Abdul Sattar Edhi who touched everyone's hearts in Pakistan with nothing but kindness and love - he was and still is an important role model for everyone in the country. I chose this poster because he was/is someone I look up to and admire greatly.

Text below from tribune.com.pk:
"a prominent Pakistani philanthropist, social activist and humanitarian. He is the founder and head of the Edhi Foundation, one of the most respected non-profit social welfare organisations in the world. On January 1, 2014, Edhi was also voted Person of the year 2013 by the readers of The Express Tribune. His foundation runs the world's largest ambulance service and operates free nursing homes, orphanages, clinics, women's shelters, and rehab centres for drug addicts and mentally ill individuals. "No religion is higher than humanity," says Edhi."

# data[].attributes.headline
'Over the Black Sea'- Alexei Leonov (1934-2019)

# data[].attributes.subject
'Over the Black Sea'- Alexei Leonov (1934-2019)

# data[].attributes.body
This piece, and the artist in particular, hold a lot of importance to me as I am intensely fascinated by astrophysics and the Cold War's Space Race (1957-75ish). The artist was the first person to walk out into space and perform a spacewalk, on the 18th March 1965. All of his work featured both a sense of realism but also utopic fantasy, as was common throughout the Cold War. I once managed to go to a talk of his at the Science Museum, and I found that the most fascinating part was how his talked about his experience as a cosmonaut in a very nonchalent way.
I'd say that this kind of propaganda was a refleciton of the hope that technological advances gave to both the Soviet side and the American side with that touch of experience that Leonov had and knew about the cosmos.
If you are interested in more graphic/photographic aspects of Space Race-era propaganda (as well as a full-blown analysis of the direct corrolation between Soviet successes and Space-race propaganda), I found the book 'Picturing the Cosmos' by Iina Kohonen to be really useful.

# data[].attributes.headline
Swiss Object Poster style in the mid 20th

# data[].attributes.subject
Swiss Object Poster style in the mid 20th

# data[].attributes.body
Sandales Bata, Peter Birkhäuser, printed in stone-lithography (I think), 1952.

An example of Swiss Object poster, a style developed in the beginning of the 20th. In response to Art Nouveau (end of 18th century),  this style drifts away from decorative embellishment and start to adopt a very minimalistic approach and an eye-catching aesthetic. Please have a look here as they explain way better than I the time line and the style: https://www.galerie123.com/en/selections/12/the-object-poster-sachplakat/

I remember being very impressed by two main thing:

1) First, how this kind of posters feel instantly very nostalgic and how you can tell right away from which period they are but yet how they still have such a modern essence. I'm still amazed of how modern they look in a way. I think the visual aesthetic is very outdated but the idea behind it still very current somehow.

2) Second, I was mind blown knowing that all these posters were drew by hands. This really made me think of how these posters are a trace of an artisanal precise and detailed knowledge, from which we today as graphic designer are inheritors. It is a reminder of the rich heritage we have and it also puts back in perspective the notion of time in making a poster.

P.S. I'm aware I'm a total swiss cliché #SwissForever#Fondue#SwissCapitalism#Banks#Chocolate

-Clara uslu 4B

# data[].attributes.body
Designer: Ghassan Kanafani.
Year: 1970.
This poster was made for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (P.F.L.P).
I chose this poster as it is for a cause that's very close to me as I am Palestinian. Palestine has gone through so much terror and hardship, people being tortured, forced to leave their homes and ultimately having their identity taken away from them. Many Palestinians don't have a home to go to, nor are allowed to go back their own country. Seeing this poster and being reminded of the strong resistance of the Palestinians to the discrimination that they go though just by existing, makes it matter to me.

# data[].attributes.headline
Booklet for the "Speak Mandarin" campaign in Singapore, 1979

# data[].attributes.subject
Booklet for the "Speak Mandarin" campaign in Singapore, 1979

# data[].attributes.body
This is a piece of propaganda that is very close to my heart because it represents a kind of cleaving of a generation of Chinese Singaporeans relationships with their grandparents. The campaign was essentially an assault on the representation of non-Mandarin Chinese dialects in the public and media in Singapore, languages that a majority of Chinese Singaporeans spoke since we hailed mostly from Southern and not Northern China where Mandarin is dominant. People were discouraged from speaking these southern languages as a way to unite the disparate groups of Chinese in Singapore under a common tongue. Southern dialects were dropped from radio stations and no longer taught in schools and over time younger generations switched to Mandarin. Many elderly people, monolingual in sourthern chinese languages, missed out on the chance to form strong, close relationships with their grandchildren. I was a victim of these consequences. Although my grandmother speaks a bit of Mandarin, as do I, it is scarcely enough to help me understand everything she says. This is something I've always regretted greatly.

# data[].attributes.body
The Lady Caroline was a passenger ship taking refugees to Canada from Ireland during the Irish Famine. I have always been interested by the formality of this poster, the quality of its print suggesting it was both expensive and mass produced suggesting a certain normality of mass migration at the time. It seems a relevant contrast to the stigma attached to modern immigration and refugees.

# data[].attributes.body
Environmental protection» by Juris Dimiters, 1980
In order to release the viewer’s imagination, unexpectedness and surprise are very important for Juris Dimiters. Therefore, the artist often uses such means of expression as paradox, wit, humour, irony, metaphor. The element of surprise is ensured by the emphasis on form and volume of the subjects involved in this «theatre of things», deconstructing the traditional perceptions on the surrounding environment, scale and their true size.

# data[].attributes.headline
Cover for the first issue of Revista Almanaque (Almanaque Magazine), by Sebastião Rodrigues,  October 1959

# data[].attributes.subject
Cover for the first issue of Revista Almanaque (Almanaque Magazine), by Sebastião Rodrigues,  October 1959

# data[].attributes.body
Revista Alamanaque was a portuguese cultural publication that lasted for 2 years in a time where Portugal was under the dictatorship of an authoritarian regime known as the Estado Novo (New State) led by António de Oliveira Salazar. During this  40-years period of dictatorship every publication and written-work was subjected to review (before being published) to the National Information Secretariat, in order to censor any pieces of text that could be offensive to the republic's institutions or any behaviour that would disturb public order.
Sebastião Rodrigues is a crucial figure in Portuguese graphic design renovating the graphic arts in the Portuguese context and consolidating modern practice of design in Portugal.

# data[].attributes.body
Alyssa

# data[].attributes.body
This poster was created by Kate Moross who is one the artists I'm respecting and he/she graduated Camberwell College and currently working as an art director, illustrator and designer. This work is digital hand-drawn illustration colourfully. I quite liked how he/she makes a phrase and draw small icons onto it creatively. When I saw this artist's work, I was interested in Camberwell College and how this person spent art uni life in there. I would like to talk with the person oneday.

# data[].attributes.body
The Umbria Jazz Festival is one of the most important jazz festivals in the world and it has been held annually since 1973, usually in July, in Perugia, and surrounding cities of the region of Umbria, Italy.
The poster for the advertisement of the festival changes every year and each time it's designed by a different artist/designer.
This is one of the first posters realised for the event. I chose this one because I think it embodies the true spirit of the festival. Umbria Jazz was held for the first time during the years of lead, which is a very turbulent period of Italian history, marked by a wave of both far-left and far-right incidents of political terrorism.
However, the climate of terror didn't stop young people from taking part in the event to show their resilience and enjoy free good music.
The festival had a huge turnout, as you can see from the picture below, and it's still considered one of the most important events in my home city to these days.

# data[].attributes.body
This poster reminds me of school, the soft pastel colours and typeface that are synonymous with any sort of 'advertising' they created. It also reminds me of using pencil shavings to shade around the edges all of my books.

# data[].attributes.body
CREATED DURING THE IRAQ WAR, IS AN ALTERNATIVE PHRASE INSPIRED BY POPULAR 1960S ANTI-WAR MANTRA,  “MAKE LOVE, NOT WAR.” IN THIS CASE, FAIREY ASSERTS THE NEED FOR CREATIVE RATHER THAN DESTRUCTIVE ACTS. THE ART NOUVEAU STYLE OF THE IMAGE IS AN ADDITIONAL REFERENCE TO THE INFLUENCE OF ART NOUVEAU ON HIPPIE AND PSYCHEDELIC ART OF THE ‘60S, INCLUDING MANY ANTI-VIETNAM WAR POSTERS.

ENCASED WITHIN A FLORAL GARLAND, THE FEMALE FIGURE APPEARS MORE SELF-ASSURED AND REAL RATHER THAN ETHEREAL. THE PLACEMENT OF TWO PAINTBRUSHES BELOW HER PORTRAIT NOT ONLY REFERS TO A CLASSICAL TOOL OF ART PRODUCTION BUT RESEMBLES SPEARS, WHICH WHEN READ ALONGSIDE THE DIRECTIVE TO “OBEY” THAT APPEARS ON HER NECK, SIMULTANEOUSLY MAKES THE OTHERWISE PALATABLE MESSAGE MORE POINTED.

created by Shepard Fairey

This work is important to me because I believe that through art many problems can be solved with the help of visual communication and can convey messages in creative ways that can go in a much better way than wars.

# data[].attributes.body
This poster is about the forced female circumcision associated with tradition and the fatal consequences that it has to many women. This work was exposed at the exposition that made me choose to study GCD.