Post Modernism

“The products of postmodern culture may sometimes bear similarities to modernist works, but their inspiration and purpose is fundamentally different. If modernism south to create a better would, postmodernism – to the horror of many observers – appears to accept the world as it is”.
 – Rick Paynor

Post modernism emerged out from modernism; such examples that came out from the Bauhaus. Postmodern designers started another characteristic where such examples that formed out of techno, punk, grunge, parody and other trends which they were based a lot on anti-media/government (anarchist way of expression) whom designers did not carry any unified graphic style, which this made them very expressive and playful as this led them to go way against the system. This included Wolfgang Weingart and Jamie Reid.

Artists began to produce bright, vibrant, eccentric and experimented with playful designs,  as they started to unconventionally break the rules of the modernists. Such designers work have consisted of torn pieces of already produced items where they placed them in a collage, they have even experimented with text to as we see part of the postmodern design is punk they used hand written typography placed on the poster and other designers have still used traditional typefaces yet distorted them differently as they had ‘re-emended’ the grid system and combined serif with sans-serif fonts.

As I mentioned before; Wolfgang Weingart was a post-modernist but interestingly enough he still made use of the clarity that came from the swiss design including text and he even followed the geometric lines yet, as we look around his posters they consist of the ‘new’ trend as he includes bright colours, overprinting of colours, photography which he re-used from the already made and manages to give such energy to such work

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I have even mentioned Jamie Reid, but as I have already made a blog post about him and a lot of people know who he is and what his artwork consists of, I decided to search for a couple of produced posters which have the same element but placed in a different way to explain the relations between different designers and their work.

Just like this poster here we can see a lot of bright colours placed in big bold rectangles, use of three different typefaces as we can see the sans-serif font used on top right corner, serif fonts in the middle area as they were represented in different sizes and in different font. We can notice as well the cut-outs from already produced magazines/newspaper of people and architecture as these make huge contrast as they are in black and white with the bold bright colours.

In today’s design we don’t really find post modernism as it seems were through the grid and clarity, yet I came across this album cover of ‘Greenday’ which is named nimrod. Here it seems that they used already printed photos and put a sticker which was already printed aswell on the faces which I think they’re some politicians. If one looks closely here we can find that the two photos are put on a sheet of newspaper yet the artist here have covered it’s border in black paint which isn’t neat at all and placing customised rounded edge serif font.  




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