Anthologie de Musique Suisse Plakat
June 22nd, 2009By: Antonio Carusone
Category: Design, Design Legends, Grid Systems, International Typographic Style, Typography
Comments: 16
Category: Design, Design Legends, Grid Systems, International Typographic Style, Typography
Comments: 16
Check out this stunning poster by the legendary Josef Müller-Brockmann. I’ve never seen this poster design before so it’s gotten me really excited! I’ll have to check my Brockmann books to see if it’s in there, but I don’t recall ever seeing it.
The color palette and the use of a few circles to create the shape of a record make this design stunning. But my favorite part of it all is how the typography, even though staggered, still lines up to a sound grid system. Brilliant.
You can grab this poster on eBay for $300. I’m so tempted.
Youssef Sarhan
the baseline of the text on the vinyl tracks is what does it for me.
Steve Kirkendall
Yes, that’s really beautiful, I don’t recall that being in any of my JM-B books either. $300 for a Müller-Brockmann poster – is that some kind of record? (sorry…)
Antonio Carusone
I’ve seen Brockmann posters go for $600. It’s nuts.
Alvin Martinez
http://www.internationalposter.com/style-primer/international-typographic.aspx
They have a huge collection of Brockmann prints, some too expensive, others not so much. But they also have a lot of other prints from pioneers of the International Typographic Style. My favs are the entire 1972 Olympic poster series from Aicher.
Ragnar Freyr
Wow!! It’s stunning! Same here, never seen it before!
Wish I had $300 to splurge!
Nikolay
Awesome find Antonio. It’s a rare gem!
Shane McC
I wonder what the typeface is,
I like the low crossbar on the uppercase A.
Michael
Thanks for the great find.
lance dior
Do grids actually give you an erection, Antonio?
Rob
Sorry but this poster does nothing for me aesthetically. To be brutally honest it’s pretty awful and looks like it’s been knocked up in Microsoft Word.
Bender
“Sorry but this poster does nothing for me aesthetically. To be brutally honest it’s pretty awful and looks like it’s been knocked up in Microsoft Word.”
Yeah, it could be done with Word! That’s the testament of bad design.
Where are all the gradients? Obnoxious swirls and exploding people? Crappy dropshadows and nauseating bevels? Sheesh.
laily
Clean and beautiful, young designers these days just don‘t get it do they…
Rob
I fully get it. Minimalism is the way to work. ”The most important tool in a designers toolbox is white space”. I just think this is a very dull and boring example of minimalism. Clean, agreed. Beautiful, I beg to differ.
Antonio Carusone
To each his own I guess. What’s frustrating is that some people think this can easily be reproduced. Just because the design is minimal, doesn’t make it easier to create. In most situations it’s more difficult. Brockmann was a master. He knowledge of design goes beyond these “simple” designs.
Alvin Martinez
@Rob “To be brutally honest it’s pretty awful and looks like it’s been knocked up in Microsoft Word.”
Oh please. Your hyperbole fails. Minimalist design is not as easy as it looks, especially when clients feel like they absolutely need to have anything and everything in their designs because they think it’s cool to overwhelm the eye and lose the message.
Warren Paea
anyone know who the client for this piece was and what it says or is communicating? finding it hard to find this information.. any help would be much appreciated