Significa Shun Lift
Poster
ca 1989 (Designed and printed)
ca 1989 (Designed and printed)
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| Place of origin |
Allen Hori designed this experimental poster while studying at the Cranbrook Academy of Art (Michigan, United States). The Cranbrook Academy of Art became a centre for the exploration of Post-Modernist theories in relation to graphic design from the mid 1970s 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. The poster layers images and text in a way that requires detailed reading and decoding on the part of the viewer and emphasises the idea of multiple interpretations and meanings.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Significa Shun Lift |
| Materials and techniques | Offset lithograph printed in blue and brown on paper |
| Brief description | Allen Hori Designer U.S. Poster advertising discourses at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan, early 1990s |
| Physical description | Poster composed around a photographic image of nude figures in a wooden box printed in blue. Text and further images printed in brown and blue are arranged over the central image. Printed on thick cream paper. |
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| Credit line | Given by the Design Museum |
| Summary | Allen Hori designed this experimental poster while studying at the Cranbrook Academy of Art (Michigan, United States). The Cranbrook Academy of Art became a centre for the exploration of Post-Modernist theories in relation to graphic design from the mid 1970s 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. The poster layers images and text in a way that requires detailed reading and decoding on the part of the viewer and emphasises the idea of multiple interpretations and meanings. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.600-1998 |
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| Record created | February 24, 2009 |
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