Graphic design in the 60s

The 1960s saw an evolution in graphic design.

FILLMORE CONCERT POSTER BY WES WILSON.

1960S JAPANESE BOOK COVER DESIGNS

WPA

The Work Projects Administration (WPA) Poster Collection consists of 907 posters produced from 1936 to 1943. The posters were designed to publicize exhibits, community activities, theatrical productions, and health and educational programs in seventeen states and the District of Columbia.

American Modernism

Rather than an artistic style, modernism was a rebellious state of mind that questioned all artistic, scientific, social, and moral conventions.

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907

Pablo Picasso

Modernists systematically and deliberately developed an art that testifies to all that is strange, unknown, and unlabeled in the self.

Modernists rejected technology and the rigidity of society and its institutions. 

Modernists explored the uncivilized nature of man.

Modernists shifted away from nature and became closer to the city. 

The Treachery of Images, 1929 by Rene Magritte