Post-Modern graphic design example #10 (6/16)

Jonathon Barbrook was known for his typography skills as well as the use of being able to create an identity for many events, companies and brands. This design was one of his well-known features because it has so many different deliverables and purposes. He created a large poster to fall over a city building as well as multiple different layouts that hung on streets, t-shirt graphics, tickets, banners, and a page in a book. His design features different black and white graphics but has a strong focus on text. This design doesn't show much overlapping text, but instead shows overlapping textures and colors, a major characteristic of post-modernism. He uses only 3 colors and overlaps the purple/pink within the black and white to add more dimension. This design is very different form the last example by David Carson because it is set up in an organized layout, instead of everything overlapping with each other. Barbrook is known for his organized layouts while maintaining features of post modernism due to his unconventional style of typography (different fonts, scales, etc.). The previous design and Barbrook both designed with a small selection of colors as well as overlapping textures and colors, although they differ extremely in layout, with Barnbrook being very neatly organized and Carson being very cluttered and messy. This design is important to not only post modernism with its organized style, but also to be because I have trouble laying designs out to look cluttered. This design shows that the post-modern style doesn't have to follow all of the rules. Post modernism is all about breaking the rules of design, so even if most postmodern styles have a collage style, some defy those rules and create an organized layout with other elements of post modernism, like Branbrook's design.

Barnbrook, J. (2010). 17th Biennale of Sydney. Barnbrook. 17th Biennale of Sydney — Barnbrook Barnbrook