Portfolio Task 2- Modernist Graphic Design

Find five images of what you consider to be modernist 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 Modernist Graphics', www.graphics.com/graphics

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

The synthetic colours show modernism. this combination of colours would not be common used in today's graphic design as such .


Rodchenko, A (1926) 'film poster for Battleship Potempkin', http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bronenosets_Rodchenko.jpg

The composition of these magazine layouts are simple and structured

this is a typical example of modernist graphic design

1) http://www.designishistory.com/1940/joseph-mueller-brockmann/

2) http://wordsandeggs.wordpress.com/

Biography
Eye Magazine
Josef Müller Brockmann by Kerry William Purcell

This vintage style of this book cover is clear by the use of pastel colours and bold super-imposed fonts

3) book cover - German Modern: Graphic Design from Wilhelm to Weimar

Steven Heller,Louise Fili

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Heller_(graphic_design)

A piece of abstracted information graphics , the use of basic shapes show an obvious graphic design style of the 60's

4) road map of Czechoslovakia from 1962

1960s modern Czech street map

http://ffffound.com/image/66d6816b655c4ae5884ca0703062f46ef87ad925

5)

Walter Allner

http://30gms.com/tags/C27/P40/