Communication Design
While looking for two designs to examine for this final paper, I came upon the New York Worlds Fair Poster designed by Joseph Binder and a poster entitled Victory 1945 by Shigeo Fukuda. In looking at both of these designs and comparing and contrasting them, I wish to show just how significantly large scale cultural issues can effect the collective conscious of a society and the resulting every day designs and images that they are subjected to. Although not much information exists separately about each of the individual designs that I have chosen for this project, the supporting historical context of each culture provides a wealth of information that can help analyze the foundations of each image. The first design is that by Joseph Binder entitled, New York Worlds Fair Poster. Created in 1939, this piece was designed in mind with the times. In the midst of the previous World War, this design attempted to show Americas embrace of modernism, technology, and it's global power. In this composition there is a small cityscape of New York City in the lower left hand corner, the large trylon and perisphere (emblems of the Worlds Fair) in yellow taking up the foreground, random spotlights put against a dark navy bl
ue sky, a cruise ship in red at the lower right and red biplanes in the upper left hand corner. The most noticeable thing about this design is its strong geometric figures, all of which are universally recognizable. The planes showing America's strength in air, the ship also showing our strength by sea, and the cityscape icon as a symbol of our population and size. Meggs states that, ".. world events would soon force the United States to cast aside its neutrality, traditionalism, and provincialism; the new embrace of modernist design was part of this process". Second on the list of designs is Victory 1945 by Shigeo Fukuda. In comparison with the Worlds Fair Poster, this one if far simpler in design, but viewed in context with its message and designer, it's just as powerful. Set against a radial gradient with a large orange interior expanding out to a soft red glow, the barrel of a cannon in stark black shoots out from the lower left corner towards the top right. A shell pointed towards the cannon as opposed to away from it sits just outside the barrel with the words 'Victory' in all uppercase white in the upper right-hand corner. This composition was awarded first place in an international competition for a poster commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of the end of World War II. Seeing as these two pieces are from two completely different time periods, it's not too difficult to imagine that the historical context of each design greatly influenced it's conception. The Fukuda was created in an effort to commemorate the end of World War II while the Binder piece was created just prior to World War II, in an attempt to show the world what we were capable of. You can see how the ideas
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