Posters by modernist architects
Six Architects is a series of minimalist posters showing the major architects and main principles of modern architecture. Conceived and created by artist Andrea Gallo.
Check the posters of Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Louis Kahn, Alvar Aalto and Walter Gropius. Which one do you prefer?
- 14.04.2011 .
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In a way, I like it, because I like minimalism. And in another, I must say that this trend is becoming increasigly tedious. Few of the works actually bring anything new to the game and many of them rely on the fact that most of the audience is already familiar with the concepts or content. It is one thing to interpret and educate and quite another to simply regurgitate the concepts of others. When watching this you really have to ask yourself: What is the designer bringing into the design? In most cases, the answer, at least for me – is close to nothing. He’s just being clever. And clever is for novelty products, not necessarily for design. I don’t know, perhaps I’m missing the mark, but all of this just feels a bit too easy and premade.
Art, complete see where you are coming from. I think its an good exercise in form…but I tend to agree about this trend becoming a bit tiring. I don’t hate it; visually they all look great. So there’s that. I guess when I think of the poster in the traditional sense, as being a vehicle to inform someone about something, it doesn’t work as well. As you said, it relies on the viewer to already have an understanding with the subject. Its like a poster that follows, instead of preceding in the traditional sense.
In the case of the movie posters some have done in this “genre”, some of the references are so obscure that you would only get it if you had seen the movie. I suppose there is that Ah-ha! moment after the fact…but I don’t know. Seemingly very “cookie cutter”.
Sorry for the typos! Wish there was an edit feature. I suppose this is Minimalissimo though!
@ Tom. Agreed! (And regarding the typos, too – just re-read my own comment above and spotted one or two myself…). Anyhow, the minimalist interpretation exercise is actually sort of a standing feature in design class in many design schools out there. It’s a good exercise, for sure. But should the results always be displayed? Perhaps not. Then again, its far from the worst ones I’ve seen (some of the worst, incidentally, are displayed in the related section just below the comments on this page). To my mind, the best designs are the ones that communicate something to the viewer other than their own excellence…
Minimalism in graphic design does not equal two colors and straight vector graphics.
I fail to find it, but i believe there’s a superb minimalist poster/advert for some Ford or Saab car. I know Antonio (AisleOne) posted it someware, and it really shows professionalism on a way higher scale than this.
I could whip up something like this in a minute, anyone with a bit of basic vector editing knowlege can. It’s just so, non-special these days. Really not even clever if you ask me.
Like @Art and @Tom said, tedious and tiring.
I like these… but observing architecture in this easy way (as simple by these posters) give me the understanding everything in architecture was invented before us…
@up_today_arch: Please elaborate on that last statement. Particularly the “before us”. Interesting line of thought, there.
I believe he meant we focus on the past too much.
I could be putting words in his mouth, but if that was what he was trying to convey, I agree.
@Derek. Well. In that case. I agree as well.
Simply … WOW
am into minimalism totally ….but if these are the work of the greats then though appreciable one would expect somemore gravity in their work….such work is a part of every curricula in all design schools and have seen alot of work done by students which has more depth.
Where can i get these??? simply beautiful…