The advertisement poster for La Maison Moderne was created by Manuel Orazi in 1902. La Maison Moderne was founded by Julius Meyer-Graefe in 1898. La Maison Modern was a store that sold the latest decorative objects and furnishings in the Art Nouveau style. As an Art Nouveau artist that focused on ornamental and decorative…
Alfred Roller designed this poster for the 16th Vienna Secession Exhibition in 1902 or 1903. It was one of a few that were designed to promote the exhibition. Although it is less famous than the other work that he did for the multiple exhibitions he had designed for, it still draws the viewer’s eye because…
Secession XIV, Beethoven was created in 1902 as a poster for the 14th Vienna Secession Exhibition. The poster was made to promote the exhibition but also to honor Ludwig van Beethoven, as that was one of the main factors of that year’s exhibition. The promotion seemed to work because almost sixty-thousand people showed up to…
For his work, I chose to learn more about one of his most renown exhibitions that he did in 2011 called Graphic Design: Now in Production. He did this project with the help of Ellen Lupton at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York. With Ellen’s help, Blauvelt was able to show the mix of…
This was a poster by Charles Rennie Mackintosh designed for The Scottish Musical Review. It is uncertain who exactly commissioned this poster but Mackintosh had done a couple different posters for the Musical Review. It is difficult to explain the exact reason for the poster but it was created for a magazine and for advertising…
The raised fist trope can be identified within many political movements, however, the fist has adapted to become a notable Black trope. Within the media it has become a symbol of resilience and power within the black community. Its origins for black people began during the civil rights movement. The fist was adopted as a…
The western genre was one of the most popular genres in the 1900s. Movies, books, television shows, games, and other forms of media were capitalizing on the western lifestyle. The most recognizable image in the genre is the cowboy. The cowboy is the most important aspect of any frontier piece of media. When one thinks…
I spotted this student radio flier in the free expression tunnel, and there are a few reasons it really stuck out to me. A full bleed black and white flier isn’t something you often see around campus. Maybe at a concert venue or record store, but this really stood out from the other predominantly white…
A trope is an image used within the media often enough to be recognized in different settings. Tropes often can have an underlying message or can be used to project a specific stereotype to their audience. For this assignment, I wanted to use a product that has been around for many years and has evolved…
Created in 1964, Protest Against The Rising Tide is a poster done by Seymour Chwast, for Booth’s Gin company, promoting the sale of Booth’s alcohol. The poster features the words “Protest Against the Rising Tide of Conformity,” with a small line of font at the bottom stating “Serve Booth’s House of Lords, the non-conformist gin…
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.…
Yusaku Kamekura’s works for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics are notably what launched the graphic designer into international fame, specifically his work “The Rising Sun and the Olympic Emblem”, which was made in 1961. Kamekura was commissioned by the Olympic committee to complete this project of posters to market the 1964 Olympics. Kamekura’s style is evident…
David Lance Goines created this poster in 1973 as a tool for self-promotion. The image was printed using seven colors on an 18″ x 24″ sheet of paper using color offset lithograph printing, like Goines’s AIDS Prevention poster that I posted about previously and many of his other poster designs. As I mentioned in my…
This poster was designed by David Lance Goines in 1985 for James Brown, M.D., the Director of Student Health Services for the University of California at Berkeley. The poster is entitled “AIDS Prevention,” and it was created as an interesting visual way to warn students against the dangers of AIDS. Goines has his own printing…
Bananas have long been a fascination in pop culture for their bright, distinctive appearance and their ubiquity for Western consumers. They have been utilized in all kinds of lighthearted media as cartoon characters and comedic symbols. They have also often been used in propaganda, advertisements, and arts to represent sexual metaphors and exoticism. The main…