Ch. 20 - William Golden - The Big Push

This piece is from the corperate identity section of the book. I personally chose it because I like the drawing. Really a bad reason I'm sure, but I enjoy the cluttered line work and we can all relate to the masses of grocery carts that always seem to be feet from the cart coral rather than in it.

The sharp contrast between the spidery illustration and the bold headline... the neat column of text... I just love it! :D

Ch. 19 - Cipe Pineles - Seventeen

I had to do a presentation on Cipe for a different class, and I enjoyed her unique style of photographical use.

This piece in particular makes me smile. At first it looks like a mirrored image, but if you look at the model's faces and hair styles, you can see that in reality it's two different people. Also the umbrella handles are on opposite sides of the exteneded legs. overal it's a balance piece with an 'X' shaped layout and the standard "seventeen" header.

(From pg. 384)

Ch. 17 - a careless word poster

By John Atherton, this WWII poster has a powerful message in it. The simple white text accents the white cross tieing in the idea that secrets need to be kept to protect the soldiers. I like the simplicity and directness of this poster... how it's somber and almost peaceful but stands for tragedy.

Image Response #6 - Ch. 15 - "Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge"

El Lissitzky created this poster in 1919 it depicts the Bolshevik army (the red wedge) cutting into the white circle that represents the "white" forces.

I like this piece because of the clarity of the meaning, the colors are stereotypical of the constructivists movement... I have to admit I'm partial to black, red, and white.

Overall this piece just depicts an incredible force and movement.

Image Response #5 - Chapter 13?

John Heartfield's "Adolf, the Superman: Swallows gold and talks tin"

• Anti-Nazi Propaganda Poster

• Visualises an X-ray of Hitler in which his esophagus is made of a stack of coins

• Part of the Dada movement

I personally love this image. :D It made me laugh out loud when I first saw it, then when I read the caption I couldn't help but be reminded of a few of our modern day politicians. The ones that are full of hot air, long on promise and short on follow through.

Wacky Packaging

Here is the random packages I found, I really don't know why this text is underlined, but I can't get rid of it. :-/

Book Image Post #4 - Military Recruting

Actually for this post rather than just picking one piece to react to, I'd like to pick two that are very similar. I'm choosing the recruiting posters from Briton and the USA.

First off I had to laugh when I found out that our beloved Uncle Sam(1917) was quite honestly a rip off of the poster of Lord Horatio Kitchner, the British Secretary of War. (1915) I personally think that Uncle Sam looks a bit more intimidating and demanding than LHK. Both use the pointing finger and eye contact to really draw the viewer in.

The poster of Uncle Sam uses the American colors and is one of the most reproduced posters in the world. It is often altered to have amusing sayings rather than as a recruiting poster.

Examples:

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