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This work of art caught my attention because it has a deep message relating to power, nerve centre, and underground. The word power is accentuated with the color red and the lightning from the fist represents electricity to illustrate the power of London's railway system. The nerve centre is the veins that are popping off the arm and the underground is represented by a London underground symbol connected to the arm. This photo is interesting to look at because there are veins popping out of the arm and the typefaces are very rigid.  Kauffer. E.M. (1930) "Power." Retrieved from  https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18448065/  on January 30th, 2020 People are shown as wealthy during the roaring twenties and are dressed very bougie with top hats and suits and women are wearing flapper dresses. This image is very colorful and pops out to me. This poster reminds me of "The Great Gatsby" in which it portrayed people living extravagant lives during thi...

For my event, I went to the Museum of Contemporary Art. I found that "For Chicago, 2007" by Jenny Holzer to be really interesting because of the way the led lights that reflect how messages move around quickly. It is relatable to how we consume mass media today in which there is an abundance of information thrown at us and it is difficult to discern what advertisements are actually saying. "For Chicago, 2007" Jenny Holzer My next work of art that intrigued me was "We construct the chorus of missing persons, by Barbara Kruger. This piece intrigued me because of its ambiguity. What is the meaning of "chorus of missing persons"? Who is Barbara referring to as we? Who are the missing persons? Why is her hair covering her entire face? This image is very peculiar and leaves the audience with a mystery.  "We construct the chorus of missing persons" Barbara Kruger Another piece of art that I found interesting was "Unfinished ...

I very much enjoyed this reading and learning more about Swiss/French artists and designers. I was especially intrigued by Cassandre’s work and how much weight geometry holds in his designs--how geometry is apparently fundamental in his work, and how other works and letterings by designers of his time were “banal in comparison” (pg. 80). His work is often balanced, symmetrical, and always pleasing to the eye. I especially liked the Pivolo poster from 1924, which was printed in a newspaper in 1925. His lettering style is big and bold but pulls the poster design together as a whole by creating a nice balance throughout--the wine glass is perfectly centered and cut evenly by the bird and the letter/shape on the right.                                                         Hollis Richard. Graphic Design: a Concise History. Thames ...

During the lecture, I enjoyed the discussion of empathy in design. The power that even just a font has to spark an emotion is very interesting. Imagery, type, and color can be used and combined to make the viewer feel a certain way in order to make the design more effective in its purpose. The most well-done piece of graphic design will evoke the same feeling as the message it's trying to get across. As we saw, for example, in the poster of the Obama quote, the message didn't match the feeling, therefore the poster wasn't effective.

I enjoyed seeing more current works that went a long with political movements. I also thought the video on the block type was interesting. I though that getting to see a company that still makes poster that way was also cool. Would definitely be something i would be interested in doing!

I found the hip hop and the black lives matter posters to be intriguing. I enjoyed looking at more examples of John Heartfield and his patronization of the nazis.

I found it interesting that there were posters back then that used photography and essentially was a photograph with text on it. The poster of the stacked cards was actually done in real life and then photographed. Then they used that photo and added typography to it to give it more context or purpose. Today, you see these kinds of posters everyday all over the place, which goes to show you that this technique and strategy makes for an effective poster.

What I thought was significant about the lecture thus far was the use of critique in specific genres of poster-making and the absence of class critique during other eras of poster-making. For instance, when we reflected on more recent poster regarding the #blacklivesmatter movement and recent women's movement, we didn't discuss major designers that progress these movements, but rather we critiqued works that had no source or author. Thinking back to last class, we often accepted the posters shown in a historical context as a precedent for more recent work and did not aim to critique them at all. I am sure there is much critique to be made about white men's poster designs from the early/mid 20th century.

Something I like about tonight's lecture is the fact that we are critiquing. It makes me feel more alert and I like knowing what others think of the posters we see. I think its helping me learn to give better critiques since it is showing me what kind of things others are noticing and how they explain their reasoning.  I don't have anything that I am not fond of at the moment. It's a pretty good lecture today.

I thought the inclusion and expanding on the anti nazi work was good. He is a very talented and smart artist who draws inspiration from various cultural, historical, and symbolic places and uses that inspiration to create moving examples of design. I thought that most of the examples of the black lives matter posters and civil rights posters were pretty poor examples of good design. None of them really stood out to me as being that well designed. Not that I know of any designers in that realm of subject matter, but it seems a shame to not showcase more moving and well done examples.

The main thing from today's lecture that I liked hearing about was the part about John Heartfield and the very strong political messages that all his works showed. Another thing I liked was the short talk about speculative design that we had because I find that to be very interesting as a topic as we move forward into the future figuring out all the different ways we can create a better and more efficient society. Something that was also beneficial was the video we watched to learn more about how we are going to go about presenting our topics later on.

I liked looking at the interesting design choices in the propaganda. I also liked the rapper posters as well. getting to look at all these types of posters is really neat and it could give me inspiration for other projects

I like that we covered multiple examples of posters from different movements. I think that it was interesting to hear what others thought about certain pieces. I also liked that we went more in depth into printing. That was really interesting too! I liked that we went through more examples of Heartfield's work. I had a hard time finding things that were interesting to me. But most of the posters in this presentation piqued my interest. I think  it's helpful to look into more examples of topics. While the history of everything is good, seeing examples helps me further understand what we are covering. The images in the book are very helpful and so were the examples from today's class.

I like that we went over more types of posters, especially ones that are more recent and relevant in todays society. Looking at more posters that represent politics and different movements was interesting to compare, and I liked discussing what made certain designs good and others not as strong.

I’m glad we revisited the topic of posters today, but I feel as though I would have liked to see less contemporary examples. I think it’s important to talk about posters that are more modern, but it felt like the discussion went a little too long. I’m glad we’re talking a bit more about Heartfield. I enjoy critiquing the posters, because it helps me understand what is effective about a certain style of design.

I liked the lecture as it was and have no further questions in any of the material covered.

Personally, I find the most interesting aspects of the lectures to be looking back on old propaganda and how the people of each country defined its leaders and its politics. I think open-ended discussions on what works and what doesn't for different pieces is super engaging and I've enjoyed getting to hear the perspectives of my classmates on different design styles and attributes.

Alex Ross I really enjoyed seeing all the different ways posters are used in social issues. I've been really interested in design for change and design for good and I love printmaking so seeing those two covered in class was awesome. The poster I like most from the lecture was Chip Thomas' "I am a man". it was pretty powerful and a had a great balance of photography and illustration. I follow a couple groups on social media called "Prints for Protest" and its really cool to see the various style and changes through out poster history when dealing with social issues and protesting.

So far I have really liked the poster additions you have showed us, and it has been nice to focus a little more closely and take more time to look at the specific subjects, even though so much more could be said. The pen and  pixel graphics rap posters were particularly intriguing to me and I will definitely be doing some more research on them. I also liked the comparisons we did of posters and talk about their authenticity, and how that is such an important factor when it comes to posters.

I really like all the slides, but I wanted to see more of a variety when it came to the political and group posters. Maybe political/movements poster for the LGBT community, the Natives Americans of Standing Rock, what's going on in the Middle East. Just more of variety when it comes to these subject matter.

I liked that we talked more about the processes behind making the designs, such as with the wood print. It would be cool to see a similar video or something for lithography.

What I liked is critiquing the posters that were shown in class today such as the "I Am A Man" poster compared to the very structured posters that followed. I had a lot to say just not very confident enough to say my opinion to the class. When it came to the women's rights posters the one with the white text overlaying the woman's face saying something along the lines of "Who's Gonna Stop Me", I really disliked this one because it was so... vague? It had no context, it could be for a black women's movement, a youth movement, etc. It's something that wasn't very clear. As for my favorite part is the exploration of Pen & Pixel Graphics. Their work isn't something that I would do myself, though it's something that is considered design. It's record album covers which are in the style of hip hop, very flashy and dollar signs everywhere. It's not my style but sometimes looking at something that isn't your style inspires ones...

I really appreciated that you went back through and filled in the "holes" from last week. I personally really like the "Let Equality Bloom" piece, although others did not. I appreciated the beauty that the flowers brought and I liked the contrast between the tan background and the black silhouette of the woman.

I enjoyed the critique of posters and the authenticity regarding them. I think it's useful to look at the effectiveness of meaning. I think that we spent too much time talking about the presentation and the example presentation style without really talking about the details.

The Dubonne t 1932 poster by A.M. Cassandre on page 84 of Richard Hollis’s book, Graphic Design: A Concise History , is what stuck out to me the most in these chapters. This poster is most creative to me because I do not think I have seen one like this before. I admire how the artist created a character that develops color and personality as the poster continues. This illustration shows me that this character is more of himself, after consuming this glass of wine. To make it even better, in the last stage for this character, the artist adds the color yellow to the background which normally indicates happiness.  I was curious to see more of Cassandre’s work, so I looked up some more and came across his poster card for Nord Express. I would consider this poster card to be abstract, which is what I love because the artist uses many different kinds of shapes to create objects. For example, he created a train out of triangles, semi-circles, and rectangles. Out of his smaller ...

From pages 37 through 75 of Richard Hollis’ book, Graphic Design: A Concise History , Vladimir and Gyorgy Stenberg’s film poster, Man with a Movie Camera 1923, stuck out to me the most. I enjoy how abstract this poster is, these artists manage to use many different styles of art in one piece, this artwork almost looks like a collage to me. Even though they do not picture someone literally using the film camera, I can still understand that this is a film poster of a woman behind a film camera.  This poster is very creative in numerous other ways, which is why it caught my eye.  Since I enjoyed the poster up above, I decided to look into more of their work. Another piece that came across my eye was Vladimir and Georgy Stenberg’s film poster for Ninich 1927 . This poster is also abstract while maintaining uniqueness. This poster shows a man looking down upon a woman. However, the characters are placed in two circles which then intersect by a little bit. This makes me think...

Advertisers were not blind to the propaganda machines stirred during the Great War. Within the inter-war period, so many of the techniques and strategies used for galvanizing people to arms were modified and adapted for common usage in marketing, and instead of rallying people to pay bonds and rations in return for a sense of satisfaction and patriotism, the strategies and techniques were now recycled in order to rally people to pay money in return for goods and services. Commercialism boomed and fed, in no small degree, the Roaring Twenties that stemmed off of it, and was persistent even through the decades that followed. Havinden, A. (1935) "Drink Milk Daily" [Poster] Retrieved from https://www.flickr.com/photos/36844288@N00/3724687130/in/photostream/ January 29, 2020 As the ancestor of the far more recent “got milk” campaign, the “Drink Milk Daily” is an obvious point of reference for the recognizably modern techniques. The message is simple, the design minimali...

Johnston, E. (1915). London Underground Lettering [Typeface]. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/471892867184370980/?lp=true (January 29, 2020) I used to believe typography was boring. That changed when I took Nate’s typography class and began to pay attention to both the details in typefaces and the history behind them. Within this week’s reading, Edward Johnston’s London Underground lettering stuck out the most to me. Johnston was a calligrapher and managed to subtly bring in an element of that into his geometric typeface that is seen in the dots above the ‘i’ and ‘j’. London’s Underground lettering has an elegant lowercase ‘g’. Double loops, the top one a perfect circle and the bottom a bigger oval, with a little ear sticking out, noticeable but not distracting. The ear doesn’t ruin the geometric theme but does add something interesting. I couldn't find the exact photo from the textbook but it is the same typeface.) Johnston, E. (1925). https://slate.com/h...

Tschichold, J. (1938) “The Professional Photographer” exhibition poster. Retrieved from https://www.davidairey.com/graphic-icons-jan-tschichold  on January 29, 2020   I have been more interested in all sorts of printing recently, so the information about Jan Tschichold really got my attention. I find this poster in particular very fascinating because of the use of color. When the textbook explained that it was printed in yellow on the left, red in the middle and blue on the right, I immediately wanted to see what it looked like in color (since the textbook only is in black and white). I was surprised by how not only were the colors there, but there was also an interesting gradient effect where greens and purples were introduced. I lastly want to comment on how the use of text size was implemented, as hierarchy and flow seemed to be very important to this artist.   Keller, E. (1932) “Presseball” poster. Retrieved from  http://g...

For my Event, I went to Scott Starrett's talk about Tech and Design in Democracy. It was very interesting to hear everything that he had to say but one part that stood out to me was the idea of breaking the rules in terms of AOC’s campaign design. I hadn’t thought much about it before, but the reason she stood out to me was because of her color scheme. The yellow and blue was something that most candidates don’t choose. Because politics are politics everything is red or blue. But Scott Starrett talked about how breaking those rules makes you stand out. He gave examples like Jimmy Carter’s campaign in green, and logos for candidates like the Obama ‘O’ or Hillary ‘H’ with the arrow. All of his examples were things I knew of because of the way that they stood out from the rest. It was also really interesting to hear about his references for AOC’s campaign. They looked at things like posters from the Farmers Union, luchador posters and union seals. Starrett mention how they wanted to r...