5 postmodern images

Postmodernism is a reaction to the established forms of modernism that supports a pluralistic approach to design.

Characteristics of Postmodern Design:

• Use of expressive type
• Embracing the Vernacular - using everyday visuals
• Engaging the viewer - The idea of design is interprited by the viewer.
• Social and political messages
• Multiple Layers and Fragmented Imagery
• Disconnected Letter spaced Typography
• Incorporate subjectivity.
• blur the lines between fine art and commerce.


Michael Vanderbyl - 6X6?

Very abstract influenced typography, at first having to really try and decode what's being delivered. The use of vibrant colour and such fragmented typography really does look like a piece of fine art with s small amount of text arranged through a layout that really doesn't want it to exist where it's placed.




  Terry Jones -  i-D magazine cover - 1980

Here we can see the extremely erratic composition of typeface with very little organization overlaying an extremely bright coloured, aggresive collage style background. This combination of such chaotic design ignores any type of grids or colour scheme completely rejecting any modernist attributes.



 David Carson - Ray Gun magazine spread.

Ray Gun magazine layout -  interview with Brian Ferry, the interview was so boring and not up to scratch that he set the type in Zapf Dingbats. A brilliant example of postmodern graphic design, leaving the user to interprit the meaning or intentions of the text before maybe attempting to decode it.



 Katherine McCoy - Cranbrook Graduate Poster - 1989

This poster has a distinct lack of grid formation and as a reslut becomes a medly of photomontage and illegible type. I do really like the central body of the piece, almost exploding outward with imagery and text.