An Exhibition of Vintage Posters
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In the 1940’s & 1950’s the “Object Poster” was “The” style of the graphic designers of the Basel School. These posters were especially well suited to stone lithography. This process allowed the designer to achieve a richness in color and texture that created images that popped off the page and were printed with such detail that they appear 3 dimensional. quot;A poster has to contain the solution to three problems: 1. The Optical…It has to be seen, 2.The Graphic… it is obliged to get its message across rapidly. 3. The Poetic…The poster is an image combined with a word. Its goal is to create…a series of mental associations… and they must be unforgettable.” A. M. Cassandre Herbert Leupin was able to combine his incredible graphic skill, subtle sense of humor and gifted use of color to achive some of the best “Object Posters” of that era. |
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