This publication casts light on the spectrum of the script poster, using consistent reduction to type and without any illustrative or geometrical elements. The script poster enjoyed its first heyday around 1915, with the discovery of the letter as a design element. Starting with examples influenced [...]
Josef Muller-Brockmann's graphics left a lasting mark on Swiss visual communication from the 1950s onward. His posters demonstrate how a sober, formally reduced language works best for conveying a universal, timeless message. Poster campaigns for longtime clients such as the Tonhalle concert hall in[...]
Posters circulated in Japan simultaneously with the country's swift reconstruction and economic revival after the Second World War. If the first generation of poster designers was mostly guided by western modernism, searching for a universal and functional way of communication, the following generat[...]
Mit einem Essay von A.V. Heiz und einem Nachwort von Harald Szeemann. Hors-Sol dokumentiert Plakatinterventionen bildender KA1/4nstlerinnen und KA1/4nstler im Affentlichen Raum der Schweiz aus den Jahren 1961 bis heute. Das primAr fA1/4r kommerzielle Botschaften genutzte Medium Plakat wird bei ihnen[...]