Propaganda Poster

Intentional vagueness

Generalities are deliberately vague so that the audience may supply its own interpretations. The intention is to move the audience by use of undefined phrases, without analyzing their validity or attempting to determine their reasonableness or application. The intent is to cause people to draw their own interpretations rather than simply being presented with an explicit idea. In trying to "figure out" the propaganda, the audience forgoes judgment of the ideas presented. Their validity, reasonableness and application may still be considered.

vague- not clearly or explicitly stated or expressed: vague promises.

In the poster above, the artist uses an illustration to show the viewer the message trying to be portrayed. The artist uses very few words but in no way has any commands in the text, as in "Do this". The artist uses imagery to allow the viewer to come up with their own assumption.
























In this poster, the artist once again uses very few words but uses them in a suggestive way. "We can do it" is a very vague term which can mean many things but the strong woman in the picture holding up her shirt to show her muscles gives a message that allows the viewer to come up with their own interpretation.























Once again, this poster here does the same as above. Progress can mean many things, but with paired with a picture of Obama, it is left up to the viewer to interpret the meaning.

This poster is very interesting and influencing to me. It has no text at all and allows the viewer to come up with their own interpretation by the few visual elements that are provided, like the nuke bomb and the needle creating cross bones.

ART NOUVEAU

Margaret MacDonald

Gilbert Shelton
























FABULOUS FURRY FREAK BROTHERS, 1972

"Wonder Wart-Hog", 1962

Wes Wilson















































Cartel de Wes Wilson y Bill Graham, de 1967




















Stanley Mouse

Mr. Saturday Night

































Sunset Jester


























Sun Lion





















John Van Hamersveld


























LA '68


























CREAM at Madison Square Garden: 2005 Reunion Poster


















Rick Griffin


























The Man From Utopia, 1972




















































Victor Moscoso

Irom Butterfly, Oct 17,18,19, 1968, (also by Rick Griffin)

1960

Houses in Motion, 1986

Alton Kelley

Grateful Dead show in 1967

























Daily Flash, November 18-19, 1966



























Bo Diddley, August 5, 1966

Band Poster Research

Cubism

In cubist artworks, objects are broken up, analyzed, and re-assembled in an abstracted form—instead of depicting objects from one viewpoint, the artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context. Often the surfaces intersect at seemingly random angles, removing a coherent sense of depth. The background and object planes interpenetrate one another to create the shallow ambiguous space, one of cubism's distinct characteristics.

Leonetto Capiello

Leonetto Capiello,April 1875 in Livorno, Italy – 2. February 1942 in Cannes, France,Arts & Crafts movement, 'the father of modern advertising' because of his innovation in poster design and I find this piece beautiful because colors are eye popping. The yellow background catches your attention and the black dress pops in front of it. Your eye starts at the top of her red feather hat and your eye moves down her body until you see the words.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonetto_Cappiello

3 YARD BOYS

3 Yard Boys; early '70s; includes artists such as Jace 2, Stan 153, and Rome 150; graffiti art movement; 3yb became quite possibly the most famous bombing crew ever. This crew had more true all city kings than almost any crew in history. ; I honestly love this work because they incorporate colors that compliment each other and use a font that describes themselves personally. Each font is unique to each person. Each member has their own flare and brings something new to the table.

Michael Beruit & Jules Cheret

Michael Beruit, Green Patriotism Campaign, 2008,

I find this piece interesting because the color and font scheme are very simple and clean. They are modern in a sense with current political issues but it has a classic and traditional feel to how an effective ad should look like. I especially enjoy that creativity that he used in using the green man in all of the ads.

He has won hundreds of design awards and his work is represented in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, all in New York; the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.; the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany; and the Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Montreal. He has served as president of the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA)AIGAArchitectural League of New York and of New Yorkers for Parks. In 1989, Bierut was elected to the Alliance Graphique Internationale, in 2003 he was named to the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame, and in 2006 he received the profession’s highest honor, the AIGA Medal, in recognition of his distinguished achievements and contributions to the field. In 2008 he received the Design Mind Award in the National Design Awards presented by the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution. from 1988 to 1990 and is president emeritus of National. He currently serves as a director of the Bierut is a Senior Critic in Graphic Design at the Yale School of Art. He is co-editor of the anthology series Looking Closer: Critical Writings on Graphic Design, published by Allworth Press, and in 1998 he co-edited and designed the monograph Tibor Kalman: Perverse Optimist. He is a co-founder of the weblog Design Observer and his commentaries about graphic design in everyday life can be heard nationally on the Public Radio International program “Studio 360.” His book Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design was published by Princeton Architectural Press in 2007.

Jules Cheret, 1836-1932, Exposition Universelle des Arts Incoherents

A French painter and lithographer who became a master of Belle Epoque poster art. Often called the father of the modern poster.

I enjoy this piece because of the colors the artist chose to use to convey a sort of creepy scary look. Instead of using a lot of black and gray, the artist chose to use pinks and blues, which is not seen very often. I enjoy how the artist uses a calligraphy font face.

September 27, 2009- Paul Rand

US Department of the Interior, 1975, modern movement,

Paul Rand was an American graphic designer, best known for his corporate logo designs, including the logos for IBM, UPS, Westinghouse, ABC, and Steve Jobs’ NeXT. He was one of the originators of the Swiss Style of graphic design.

- What I enjoy about this poster is that all the text is equally balanced and has perfect symmetry. The poster successfully delivers the message with a creative and colorful, attractive force that makes your eye follow from the top to the bottom.

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Movie Poster Idea

1. A movie poster designed this millennium.
























Dark Knight
BLT & Associates, 2008
- I enjoy this poster because there is a texture to the image that looks as if there is fog on a mirror and he is spelling words with his finger, but with blood. It creates a vast depth of field.
























Taxi to the Dark Side
cold open, 2008
- I love the papery texture to this image. It looks as if they printed the poster on a paper document.

Hard Candy
Art Machine, A Trailer Park Company, 2006
- I love that the artist tried to balance out the image by placing the man in the middle, but the weight is dead center and doesn't give your eye room to roam. I enjoy this poster though because you can feel the blinds in your fingers.
























Burn After Reading
Mojo, LLC, 2008
- I enjoy the direction of the text as it is dwindling downward towards the man the contrast between the words, man, and background color.
























The Good Shepard
Crew Creative Advertising, 2006
- I chose this poster because of the way the artist included text into the design. I like how the eye is directed from the top corner down to the middle text and then down to the bottom for the credits.


2. A Post-Modern movie poster (designed after 1960)























Annie Hall
No designer listed, 1977
- I liked how the artist decided to stick with a very minimalist approach to this design. The artist has used a balance between words and the image to give a very easy flow to the piece.
























Edward Scissorhands
No designer listed, 1990
- Not only is this poster fun, but the depth is amazing in this photo. It is as if you can see on for miles. Everything in this poster is balanced and unified.

3. A movie poster designed by Saul Bass
























Anatomy of a Murder, 1959
- I enjoyed the unity of the two colors and the balance between the imagery and the text.

























Love in the Afternoon, 1957
- Even though most of the weight lies in the top half, it has a very smooth downward motion.
























Bird Man of Alcatraz, 1962
- The unity of the birds with the man's face is working because it causes a motion for the reader's eye from top to the bottom.

4. A movie poster designed before 1950
























The Boy with Green Hair
No designer listed, 1948
- What struck me as interesting about this poster is that there is a high contrast between the black and white. I noticed that they placed the boy in the center, which wouldn't have been considered "right" in today's design.