Feature: Posters
Screen prints
Recently discovered posters for the RCA Film Society provide fresh perspective on the intimate…
Gender rendition
Todd Trexler’s Das Black Moonlight poster marked drag’s movement into the public consciousness.
Raise the bar
Uncompromising posters for the Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers in Paris
Reputations: Richard Hollis
‘The ideal situation is where you sit with the client and design with them. If anything is emphasised…
Malcolm, Peter … and Keith
The British New Wave was born at a boys’ school near Manchester
Reputations: Roman Cieslewicz
‘Posters are dying out. They need strong themes, which at present they lack. As a form of communication…
Political clout: Australian posters
Screenprints gave both activists and artists a means of direct expression
Day-Glo mind blow
Psychedelia hit late 1960s London in an explosion of silk-screen colour
Techno cubists
Champions of the layered look, Nancy Skolos and Tom Wedell wed theory and technological wizardry
Your system sucks!
The flight from Modernism left a yearning for graphics that were rough, real, unaffected and believable.…