Project III: Propaganda Posters

Direct Order Techniques

Historical posters;

"I Want You 1917" by J.M. Flagg

Contemporary advertising posters;

Project II: Postmodern Band Flyer Research

International Style

Paul Rand

"Interfaith Day" 1951

It's organize and all the words are clearly displayed.

"AIGA 50th Anniversary" 1965

This image focuses around the typography in the middle.

"UCLA Extension 75th Anniversary" 1994

It's very simple that text is easy to read.

" Earth Day" 1995

It's very clean uniform image.

Research artist #5

Milton Glaser

" Bob Dylan" 1966

"The sound is WOR-FM 98.7" 1965

"Face with Dove" 1960s

Jules Cheret

"Casino de Paris, Camille Stefani" 1891

"Le Punch de Grassot" 1980

"Quinquina Dubonnet" 1895

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

"Moulin Rouge poster" 1891

"La reine de Joie" 1892

"Jane Avril" 1899

Research artist #4

Artist: Milton Glaser

Title: I Love New York

Date: 1977

Movement: Graphic Design

Link

Milton Glaswer was born in June 26, 1929. He is a graphic designer, best known for the "I love New York" logo. He also founded New York Magazine with Clay Felker in 1968. Consisting of the capital letter I, followed by a red heart symbolize of love, below which are the capital letters N and Y, set in a rounded slab serif typeface called American typewriter.

The logo has became a part of the American pop cultural canon, since inspiring countless knock-offs (t-shirts, stickers, mag cups, etc) of the "I....."form.

Research Graffiti Artist

Graffiti Crew Name: The Killer Crew

Movement: Graffiti art

Link

The Killer Crew was founded in Queens in the mid 1970s by SMOKE aka YE With writers like KB and JACE. Their names were seen primarily on the RR, J, M, and LL lines of the BMT division. The leaders started working with the other groups in the area. With these partnerships, The Killer Crew’s art work can be seen in all three subways.

Research artist #3

Artist: Alphonse Mucha

Title: Poster of Maude Adams, as Joan Arc

Date: 1909

Movement: Art Nouveau

Link

Alphonse Mucha (24 July 1860 – 14 July 1939) was a Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist, most well known for his images of women. Mucha produced many paintings of a collection of commercial art, a formidable presence in advertisements, book illustrations and theater posters among others. The image depicts the American actress Maude Adams in the role of Joan of Arc in Schiller's Die Jungfrau von Orleans (The Maid of Orleans).

Helvetica Artist: Paula Scher

Artist: Paula Scher

Title: Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk

Date: in the 90's

Movement: Helvetica

Link

Paula Scher (1948) is an American graphic designer and artist. Paula Scher's posters for the New York Public Theater were popular. Her extremely unconventional and atractive typography compositions. The Public Theater posters were posted all over New York City and soon became its own style. She is also know for creating the identities for Citibank, Tiffany & Co., The New York Times Magazine, Perry Elis, Bloombers, Target, Jazz at Lincoln Cneter, etc...

Artist: William Morris

Artist: William Morris

Title: Tulip and Willow

Date: 1873

Movement: Arts and Crafts

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William Morris (24 March 1834-2 October 1896) was an English architect, furniture and textile designer, artist, writer, socialist and Marxist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement. One of Morris works of art is "Tulip and Willow, 1873." It was indigo-discharge wood-block printed fabric. Morris was prducing repeating patterns for wallpaper as early as 1862, and some six years later he designed his first pattern specifically for fabric printing. Morris's patterns for woven textiles included intricate double-woven furnishing fabrics in which two sets of warps and wefts are interlinked to create complex gradations of colour and texture.

Artist: Paul Rand

Artist: Paul Rand

Title: Eye Bee M

Dates: 1981

Movement: International Style

Link

Paul Rand was an American graphic designer born in 1944. He designed many posters and corporate identities, including the logos for IBM, UPS and ABC. Rand's work has an amazingly playful and expressive quality to it. He worked into the 1990s continually designing. He died in 1996.

Project One: #4 A movie poster designed before 1950

A. Cinderella

B. Bill Morrison, 1950

C. A. This image has a composition that pulls the viewers eyes from the top of the poster down to the characters at the bottom. The dark background provides a nice contrast for the main focal point the glass slipper.

Project One:#3 A movie poster designed by Saul Bass

A. Vertigo

B. Saul Bass, 1958

C. A. This poster reflects the title with swirling motion into the middle of the image. The lay out of the swirl also gives depth to the poster, making you feel like you are going to get sucked in.

Project One: #2 A Post-Modern Movie Poster (Designed After 1960)

A. Godzilla vs. the Thing

B. 1964

C. This poster shows emphasis on what Godzilla is going to do with the mysterious thing. Giant letters promise information, but to contrast this with no information and a large ‘?’. The entire piece is centered around Godzilla and the Thing, that is repersented by the ‘?’.

Project One: #1 A movie poster designed this milennium

A. Wall-E

B. The Arterie, 2008

C. This poster is designed by one of graphic art company, The Arterie. The poster shows contrast between two characters and backgrand of a cityscape that appears to be far off in the distance and shininess. There are a lost texture in this image, lightning from the top to the bottom. Also it has emphasis on the two main characters of the movie, “Wall-E.”