your turn #11

Bronislaw Zelek, 1967

We did the masters of LOGO and the generation of Polish poster (1960-1980).

Your turn, 

Jan Lenica's "Janco The New Musician"

your turn #10

 armin hoffman, poster for stadt theater basel, 1963

We've covered propaganda, advertising, WWII (their side, ours), Alvin Lustig, the International Typographic Swiss Style (with the likes of Müller-Brockmann, Max Huber, Eric Nitsche & Armin Hoffman), Helvetica, & the emergence of the "pre logo" artists (Bass, Giusti, Stankowski, et. al.).

go ahead!

your turn #9

this is charles mingus's 1954 Ah Um, a jazz masterpiece. the design is my neil fujita, we'll talk about this beautiful chapter of american graphic design and jazz next class

we did a wonderful group of graphic design european masters: cassandre, liberman, brodovitch, beal, zwart & binder. but their design in america is not european design. this is 100% american graphic design.

what do you think? (don't forget to leave comments for #8, here)

margaret bourke white's photorealistic social touch

 at the time of the luisville flood, 1937

In 1929, Bourke-White accepted a job as associate editor and staff photographer of Fortune magazine, a position she held until 1935. She was the first female photojournalist for Life magazine in 1936. During the mid-1930s, Bourke-White photographed drought victims of the Dust Bowl.

What do we see here?

 hats in the garment district

Bourke White has the right touch to capture and interpret her time. This is America right after the Wall Street Crash of 1929. In her photos we see depression, destitution, poverty. She is also making a social commentary. Above, against a poster exulting the good of capitalism, we see a long line of unemployed blacks.

women striking in Chicago

still rewinding: anti suffragist posters (politics always have two sides)

yes, there was a poster war in the early 1920s in england and the US for the hearts and minds of the populace,

 the "feminized" man (above)

the ridicule, women exhibit childish attitudes,

your turn #8 (though a little late)

is there anything you want to say about last class? we did surrealism (magritte).

and, yes, bauhaus,