Detroit Focus. Morris Brose: A Sustained Vision
Poster
1987 (designed and printed)
1987 (designed and printed)
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After thirty years of practice as a commercial artist, Ed Fella joined Cranbrook Academy of Art (Michigan, United States) in 1985 and has since been recognised as a pioneer of post-modern graphic design.The Cranbrook Academy of Art became a centre for the exploration of post-modernist theories in relation to graphic design under the direction of Michael and Katherine McCoy. Students at Cranbrook challenged the modernist approach to graphic design, questioning conventional rules of layout, legibility and the hierarchy of information. This poster mixes different fonts and fragments of images in an iconoclastic composition.
Object details
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| Title | Detroit Focus. Morris Brose: A Sustained Vision (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Lithograph on paper |
| Brief description | 'Detroit Focus. Morris Brose: A Sustained Vision', exhibition poster, designed by Ed Fella; USA, 1987 |
| Physical description | Poster printed in black on two sides advertising an artist lecture. The poster uses fragments of screened photographic images and text in a variety of fonts mixed together in an irregular layout. |
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| Credit line | Given by the Design Museum |
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| Summary | After thirty years of practice as a commercial artist, Ed Fella joined Cranbrook Academy of Art (Michigan, United States) in 1985 and has since been recognised as a pioneer of post-modern graphic design.The Cranbrook Academy of Art became a centre for the exploration of post-modernist theories in relation to graphic design under the direction of Michael and Katherine McCoy. Students at Cranbrook challenged the modernist approach to graphic design, questioning conventional rules of layout, legibility and the hierarchy of information. This poster mixes different fonts and fragments of images in an iconoclastic composition. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.594-1998 |
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| Record created | February 24, 2009 |
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