In the wake of the 1917 revolution,Soviet designers saw it as their patriotic duty to create an entirely new artistic language in service of their new socialist utopia. Art was a reflection of a modern, industrial society. It had no place in an artist’s studio, or even in a museum.
Artists treated typography as a visual element in and of itself. It communicated, engaged and entertained. Typefaces were readable, but they didn’t sit on a page like anything that had come before. Words were kaleidoscopic, with dynamic rhythmic designs that represented machine-age modernity. Read more
A Keve Art Exhibition | Hungary | 1984 £400
State Administration of the Ministry of Space Communications | Russia | 1979 £250
Want-Love, Want-Not | Russia | 1988 £350
Frantic | Poland | 1988 £350
67th Anniversary of the Great Socialist October Revolution | Poland | 1984 £500
"We will not Retreat from our Line on Peace!" M.S. Gorbachev | Russia | 1986 £200
Our Buildings | Ukraine | 1981 £200
A Delicacy - Carp | East Germany | 1957 £200
The Lonely White Sail | East Germany | 1978 £250
Lenin's Party Shows the Way | Ukraine | 1983 £250
Horizons | Germany | 1974 £550
Tim & Bim | Russia | 1966 £500
Communist Party, Peace | Russia | 1983 £300
Take Care of the Springs! | Russia | 1986 £200
Call Me Lawyer | Hungary | 1967 £650
Don't Leave at Height | Russia | 1990 £250
World Convention of Youth in Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Lenin | Russia | 1970 £750