Portfolio Task 4- Postmodern Graphic Design

Find five images of what you consider to be Postmodern Graphic Design. Post these to your blog, with reference to date, author and title in the following form-
Author (date) 'Title', full web URL

e.g. Miles, R (2010) 'A piece of Postmodern Graphics', www.graphics.com/graphics

Also, include a couple of sentences next to each image which describe why you think each image is Postmodern.

Reid, J (1977) Sex Pistols 'Never Mind The Bollocks', LP cover, http://www.virginmedia.com/images/sex_pistols-gal-covers.jpg

 F.H.K Henrion

http://mikedempsey.typepad.com/graphic_journey_blog/2009/02/from-caveman-to-spray-can.html

1) This is the album cover for The Sex Pistol’s 1977 hit single “God Save the Queen”

The punky style of the cover is quirky and abstract,

the way jamie Reid almost mocks the queen is amusing and visually the classical image with the contrasting 'funky' text over work well together creating a modernist style.

http://shanny12.wordpress.com/modernism-vs-postmodernism/

2) I-D, the British youth culture magazine 1980. designed by Terry Jones

This poster is very in your face and aggressive.

There is an element of sex appeal , and this is expressed not just through the image but through messy collage and through quotes in super - imposed fonts.

http://shanny12.wordpress.com/modernism-vs-postmodernism/

3) album cover ,jamie reid, england 1977 

Another example of an approach to modernist graphic design in a punky style, using bright colours and random varied fonts

http://gds.parkland.edu/gds/!lectures/history/1975/postmodern.html

4)  poster wolfgang weingart germany 1981

A clear use of simple colours with a variation of shapes and text , this is a typical example of the early stages of graphic design 

http://gds.parkland.edu/gds/!lectures/history/1975/postmodern.html

5)Left: 7" sleeve. Front cover, Your Generation/Day By Day, Generation X, 1977. Right: Composition In Red, Black And White, Henryk Berlewi, 1924. Lodz Museum of Art.

I wanted to include an example of early stages of graphic design in the packaging and commercial areas, again this piece of graphic design uses simple shapes and block colour to persuade and sell

http://www.barneybubbles.com/blog/archives/tag/al-mcdowell