The first volume of the Design Encyclopedia series, Posters, explains pre-war and post-war designs with many illustrations. Edited by Hara Hiroshi, Katsumi Masaru, and Kono Takashi. In addition to introducing many works by famous artists such as Okamoto Taro, Kamekura Yusaku, Raymond Savignac, Pablo Picasso, and Yamana Fumio, it also contains a wealth of texts such as “The History of Posters” and “The Aesthetics of Posters.”
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Design Archive Feature, Designer Profiles, Members Only Content, Poster Design
Scanned posters by the great Michele Spera. Many use a strong use of geometric form, often paired with sans-serif typefaces like Helvetica. Their simplification of form and use of colour create timeliness, recognisable posters that would have stood out alongside the posters of the 1970s which tended to have a heavy use of photography.
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Design Archive Feature, Designer Profiles, Members Only Content, Regional Histories
Yoshio Hayakawa is one of Japan’s most influential post-war poster designers. His work represents a fusion of traditional Japanese art and European modernism often using soft, poetic brushstrokes and refined colour palettes and capturing the elegance of Japanese aesthetics while integrating the clean lines and bold visual language of Western design.
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This book shows, for the first time, all of Hans Hillmann’s film posters. Unpublished sketches and drafts from his estate along with commentary from conversations and interviews provide an insight into the creative process of the award-winning designer.
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