What I was thinking here was to zoom in so close on the posters from chapter ten that you cannot tell what the bigger picture is and you are forced to analyze style, color and form without any distractions from text or figures. I chose to put the images framed in circles to also eliminate any assumptions made from the traditional poster format of a poster. The only text I included is the title, designer and date to give enough contextual information so that all the focus of interpretation and examination is on the image.
good move.
ReplyDeleteyou may have noticed that Cramsie doesn't give dimensions for these posters. Neither do several other graphic design history surveys (Meggs, Drucker/McVarish). so they have withheld information too, although not for the reasons you give; perhaps for no reasons!
you focus "in." having done so, you can now scale "up," huge (in an exhibit, for example).
or different details from same example, at different scales.
throwing it all open to viewer's interpretation is fine, but I wonder if you might also identify an idea, a "topic" in these details, and follow it. something about "lines," for instance.
anyway, this bold step is an excellent one.