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Virtual museum of socialist era graphic design in Bulgaria

151 points by NaOH 2y ago

svilen_dobrev 2y ago
here all the .bg LP and cassettes produced: https://balkanton.su/ https://balkanton.su/
tigro7 2y ago
Soviet states always had a great taste in graphic design.
- InDubioProRubio 2y ago
  They did- they are so catchy, there recently was a post about Vietnamese graphic design - spectacular stuff and colors. This poppy propaganda plus the space tech is what generated the self-image of a "loosing" system capitalism in the west.
- fatih-erikli-cg 2y ago
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- andrei_says_ 2y ago
  I think Poland and Yugoslavia also have great graphic design from that time - especially theatre posters. None of these countries were Soviet states of course - they were a part of the socialist block.
- kansface 2y ago
  Any thoughts on why this is the case? I have the same impression, but now I'm wondering if its survivor bias. I never lived through it, and have only been exposed to the best of it on the Internet.
  - jhbadger 2y ago
    Well, when the Soviet Union was starting out illiteracy was high because Tsarist Russia had a shortage of public schools. So propaganda that worked even if you couldn't read was important. And later states in the Soviet sphere like Communist Bulgaria got much of their cultural cues from the Soviet Union even if the reasons for them didn't necessarily apply.
- larodi 2y ago
  But it’s all very much brutalist isn’t it? So perhaps brutalist as an art movement was just really appealing or was taught extensively …
jugg1es 2y ago
Excellent collection of work
boxed 2y ago
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homebrewer 2y ago
Here's a simple stylesheet to disable scrolljacking and make browsing the site tolerable: #sgallery { height: unset; } #scontent { width: unset; } It can be applied through the browser developer tools (F12 → Style Editor → + → paste the CSS there), or through one of the many user style extensions.
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Klaster_1 2y ago
Damn, there's even pixel art from 1986 in there: http://socmus.com/past/ppc/27.jpg http://socmus.com/past/ppc/27.jpg
- phoronixrly 2y ago
  It says '13th Congress of BCP' (an abbreviation for Bulgarian Communist Party)
shreyshnaccount 2y ago
is there a list of virtual museums? a museum of museums?
- cocodill 2y ago
  and if so, will this museum itself be included in the list?
  - jhbadger 2y ago
    Or even better, a virtual museum of all virtual museums that don't contain themselves, perhaps named in honor of Bertrand Russell.
_rpxpx 2y ago
fantastic - thanks for posting
yehat 2y ago
That's a great idea, but missing one of the best categories there - book covers. With that regard there's one particularly special category - Sci-Fi. In my opinion the work of Tekla Aleksieva in that period is one of the most influential and inspiring works I ever seen regarding book cover illustration. I'm still looking for a complete online gallery of her amazing work, but here're some places one can check about what she was bringing: -https://sarieva.org/artists/tekla-aleksieva/selected https://sarieva.org/artists/tekla-aleksieva/selected -https://artviewer.org/tekla-aleksieva-at-sariev-gallery/ https://artviewer.org/tekla-aleksieva-at-sariev-gallery/ -https://blokmagazine.com/artist-feature-tekla-aleksieva/ https://blokmagazine.com/artist-feature-tekla-aleksieva/ -https://openartfiles.bg/en/people/3567-tekla-aleksieva https://openartfiles.bg/en/people/3567-tekla-aleksieva

151 points by NaOH 2y ago

svilen_dobrev 2y ago

here all the .bg LP and cassettes produced: https://balkanton.su/ https://balkanton.su/

tigro7 2y ago

Soviet states always had a great taste in graphic design.

InDubioProRubio 2y ago
They did- they are so catchy, there recently was a post about Vietnamese graphic design - spectacular stuff and colors. This poppy propaganda plus the space tech is what generated the self-image of a "loosing" system capitalism in the west.
fatih-erikli-cg 2y ago
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andrei_says_ 2y ago
I think Poland and Yugoslavia also have great graphic design from that time - especially theatre posters. None of these countries were Soviet states of course - they were a part of the socialist block.
kansface 2y ago
Any thoughts on why this is the case? I have the same impression, but now I'm wondering if its survivor bias. I never lived through it, and have only been exposed to the best of it on the Internet.
- jhbadger 2y ago
  Well, when the Soviet Union was starting out illiteracy was high because Tsarist Russia had a shortage of public schools. So propaganda that worked even if you couldn't read was important. And later states in the Soviet sphere like Communist Bulgaria got much of their cultural cues from the Soviet Union even if the reasons for them didn't necessarily apply.
larodi 2y ago
But it’s all very much brutalist isn’t it? So perhaps brutalist as an art movement was just really appealing or was taught extensively …

jugg1es 2y ago

Excellent collection of work

boxed 2y ago

[flagged]

homebrewer 2y ago

Here's a simple stylesheet to disable scrolljacking and make browsing the site tolerable: #sgallery { height: unset; } #scontent { width: unset; } It can be applied through the browser developer tools (F12 → Style Editor → + → paste the CSS there), or through one of the many user style extensions.

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Klaster_1 2y ago

Damn, there's even pixel art from 1986 in there: http://socmus.com/past/ppc/27.jpg http://socmus.com/past/ppc/27.jpg

phoronixrly 2y ago
It says '13th Congress of BCP' (an abbreviation for Bulgarian Communist Party)

shreyshnaccount 2y ago

is there a list of virtual museums? a museum of museums?

cocodill 2y ago
and if so, will this museum itself be included in the list?
- jhbadger 2y ago
  Or even better, a virtual museum of all virtual museums that don't contain themselves, perhaps named in honor of Bertrand Russell.

_rpxpx 2y ago

fantastic - thanks for posting

yehat 2y ago

That's a great idea, but missing one of the best categories there - book covers. With that regard there's one particularly special category - Sci-Fi. In my opinion the work of Tekla Aleksieva in that period is one of the most influential and inspiring works I ever seen regarding book cover illustration. I'm still looking for a complete online gallery of her amazing work, but here're some places one can check about what she was bringing: -https://sarieva.org/artists/tekla-aleksieva/selected https://sarieva.org/artists/tekla-aleksieva/selected -https://artviewer.org/tekla-aleksieva-at-sariev-gallery/ https://artviewer.org/tekla-aleksieva-at-sariev-gallery/ -https://blokmagazine.com/artist-feature-tekla-aleksieva/ https://blokmagazine.com/artist-feature-tekla-aleksieva/ -https://openartfiles.bg/en/people/3567-tekla-aleksieva https://openartfiles.bg/en/people/3567-tekla-aleksieva