In 1971, a film called Shaft—a breakthrough for Black cinema—was released. It was what Junius Griffin, then president of the…
Geometry, clarity, functionality, and a deliberate lack of ornamentation. These are the ideas typically associated with Bauhaus typography. Famously, students…
At first glance, you might think the Maoist era artwork at the Shanghai Propaganda Poster Art Centre in Shanghai, China,…
Kristýna Kulíková isn’t easy to pin down: we’d been making plans on and off to chat on the phone for…
In January 1954, François Truffaut famously published a piece in French film magazine Cahiers du Cinema railing against the tired and anachronistic…
In 1966, the delegates of 82 governments and national liberation movements gathered at the Habana Libre hotel in Havana, Cuba…
Most of us have heard the Karl Marx description of religion as “the opium of the people,” yet we have…
As part of her preparation for a new exhibition of vintage hand-painted Ghanaian movie posters, Poster House chief curator Angelina…
From floor-to-ceiling, the walls at the Gallery of Honour at Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum are papered in a dense array of…
Most designers didn’t begin their careers using a computer smuggled across the Berlin Wall disguised as a TV. But Detlef…
Berlin is, and always has been, a city of activism. As such, many of the posters you’ll find plastered across…
Only a year ago, the Berlin-based designer Svenja Prigge was surprised—and pissed off—to learn that the 2018 jury for Germany’s…
