Impulse

While work­ing on projects for my typog­ra­phy class, I got hooked on re-creating Constructivist and Modernist posters. I find it a great way to learn about design. Here’s my take on a Bruno Monguzzi poster (orig­i­nal here).

Though these posts seem sim­ple at a glance, there’s a lot of under­ly­ing geom­e­try to the design. For exam­ple, in my re-creation above, the bar thick­nesses and head­line type sizes are in ratios of 4:3:2 to each other, and the word “Typography” fits exactly in the space between the red & blue bar edges. Oh how I would’ve loved to have the lower case “h” in “Typography” line up with the blue bar edge, too…