Contemporary Graphic Design

Today, we call our style Contemporary which basically it means present day/latest. Today we use a lot of contemporary and modern characteristics these days whom one knows that these two styles have different characteristics.

Contemporary characteristics are based on dynamic which its quite changing constantly and because of this such art can be varied a lot as by this I can conclude that contemporary design isn’t based on one style. Designers today pick different bits from different styles/eras; our designers today are about personal design which such design shows individuality.

So basically I’m going over a few points which sum up the artist’s works before ill comment a bit on a couple of different posters. Today such today consists of forms which are usually on the centre of layout, clean lines, basic forms and simple shapes. When it comes to typography, todays we use sans-serif fonts where I must say that such typeface is all over the places and serif fonts are far away from ‘fashion’. Photography is used as well in different styles because of today’s high technology and editing programmes.

This is a poster done for an election campaign in America which is representing the present president Barack Obama. As we can see here the designer created a stencil, where he used bold flat colours represented in blue, red and white which are the colours of the national flag. The artist seems to be inspired from older works just like the famous Che’ Guevara stencil. The inspiration wasn’t just from Che’ Guevara stencil, it has an infusion in it from today’s street art graffiti, where such artists generally use stencils just like the famous Banksy.

 

This is a random poster I found while surfing the net, this is a re-make poster of the cartoon based film Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs. We can notice that the artist here used a simplified illustrated already eaten apple which forms two faces one on the left and one on the right whom represent Snow White and the Prince. He uses a lot of ‘white space’ represented in the black background. As I have done some research through this semester on graphic designers I can state that this designer here was inspired by Saul Bass whom created his artworks from simplified shape and cut outs placed on top of each other yet as I have said before, due to professional editing programmes here the designer added shadows created by different gradients. Here due to the ‘romance of a classical’ cartoon movie the designer used serif fonts to keep with the ‘old’ look.

                                                

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