Tuesday 10 April 2018

Peter & Paul: Poster Design - Research

The research focused on posters and other forms of editorial design that were related to the use of photography, ink or printing for it to be related to the quote.

These images are from the Internet or books like Josef - Müller Brockmann Pioneer of Swiss Graphic Design, Typografische Monatsblätter, Helvetica Forever and 100 years of Swiss graphic design.

The focus was especially on works that had long quotes or at least some text that could be re-shaped.


This type of layout allows a long text to be read from a certain distance.






The use of smaller text on a bigger size could also be an option, like this example of Portsaid desing.


Splitting the quote into letters or smaller parts could also be a possibility like this design of Metamorphosis.



The opposite approach of a design purely based on text and covering almost the entire poster with text in different sizes.


This is an interesting approach from the designer Mane Tatoulian where she used the texture of mixed paint as a background. This particular combination of white text and colours is not very legible, but different combinations could give a more readable outcome.







This is an interesting example of a typographic work that is not very readable unless it recurs to repetition.


Chromatic aberration and other effects may suggest the manipulation of lights that could be appropriate for the approach related to photography.








The use of spot lights also lead to the idea of simply using circles for the design:





Following this logic, dots could also be applied to halftone designs, which can include photography.






Other different typographic approaches that show long quotes in a very visible way and layouts that allow the inclusion of :































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