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Soviet states always had a great taste in graphic design.
by tigro7 2y ago
Soviet states always had a great taste in graphic design.
- InDubioProRubio 2y agoThey 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[dead]
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- andrei_says_ 2y agoI 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 agoAny 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 agoWell, 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 agoBut it’s all very much brutalist isn’t it? So perhaps brutalist as an art movement was just really appealing or was taught extensively …