Visual Research II

Closure

Skopje is a poster designed by Fons Hickmann for an international competition with a purpose of celebrating the competition’s 10th anniversary in 2017. Fons Hickmann had used the closure of adhesive yellow strips to create a red star shape. The colors represent the Macedonian flag.

Skopje Poster, 2017

Proximity

Poster designed by Boris Bućan for Zagreb Symphony Orchestra and Chorus RTZ in 1986. He had altered the lines close together to create shapes of human figures by using proximity.

Musical Experiences: Zagreb Symphony Orchestra and Chorus RTZ (Radio-
Televizija Zagreb) (Poster for a performance at Lisinski Concert Hall, Zagreb), 1986

Addition interesting work (combination of different Gestalt principles)

Print by Larry Carlson. This piece/poster/artwork is super interesting because I think he had used proximity and closure to create this trippy, illusion effect of two women hugging each other.

Wavy 2, 2020

Visual Research I

Line

Berlin Layout, logo and style manual by Anton Stankowski, designed in 1970 for the city of Berlin.

Berlin Layout, 1970

2D Shape

Poster by Stephan Bundi, designed in 2007 for the opera about cuckold husbands.

Boccaccio, 2007

3D Shape

Poster by Gunter Rambow, designed in 2017 for Oper Frankfurt, an opera company in Germany.

Il Trovatore, 2017

Size

Poster by Gunter Rambow, designed in 1967. 

Egoist, 1967

Space

Book cover by Paul Rand, designed in 1945. The book name is The Fervent Years by Harold Clurman.

The Fervent Years, 1945

Texture

Poster by Issay Kitagawa, designed in 2013 for an Ellie Omiya Exhibition at a Ginza graphic art gallery.