*Images found on – https://www.behance.net/gallery/14756033/Tehran-Monoxide-Project In 2014, Homa Delvaray created a project titled the “Tehran Monoxide Project.” It is an illustrative poster that carries the goal of spreading awareness of the Tehran air pollution, specifically, the effects it has on children of Tehran. The movement began from The Tehran Monoxide Project group, which is a…
Du Bois was invited to create a schowcase of Afrian American living at the Exposition Universelle in Paris. However, this World Fair was inadvertdently also a celebration of French and European imperialism, even going so far as to display “villages” where black people were presented in a derogative manner, as conquests of the empire.…
The first piece of work that I am analyzing are the Franklin and Jefferson Graphics. These graphics were designed by Charles and Ray Eames around 1975-1976. The Eames officed designed these posters and catalogs for an addition to its final exhibition called The World of Franklin and Jefferson. This exhibition was created in honor of…
Cassandre was most well known as a poster artist, but he delved into many different areas of art, including the creation of typefaces. Many of his typefaces were widely used and impactful, with one of the more interesting types being Peignot, which he created in 1937. The type was commissioned by Deberny & Peignot. The…
One of the most important posters created by Cassandre was Au Bucheron, a poster created as an advertisement for a cabinet maker in 1923. The poster itself led to Cassandre’s later and widespread success and fame, winning him recognition and an iconic style. It is a depiction of a man chopping down a tree, not…
In 1990, Gran Fury was invited to exhibit in the “Aperto” section of the Venice Biennale. They used this platform to criticize the position of the Catholic Church towards the AIDS crisis in a work entitled “The Pope and the Penis.” The work is made up of two huge posters hung next to each other. …
This map design is Henry Beck’s proposal for the Paris Metro in 1951 after his London Underground design had become quite the success. The most important thing to note about this project is that it represents what could have been for Beck’s career, due to France rejecting his design. Even though this work…
Another aspect of design that was important to Jan V. White was color and the use of color in print. Back in the seventies and eighties when bright colors were all the rage, White published another book in 1996 on the impact of color, which he called, “Color For Impact”. Color For Impact explains color…
Of his two hundred publications, Jan V. White published a couple very important books for designers and non-designers, which became key to understanding print design and publication. One of his most popular books, published in New York in 1988 by Watson-Guptill Publications, was “Graphic Design For The Electronic Age”. This piece was important for White…