Public Design
公共デザイン
Dictionary entry
- WPA Poster 1935–1943 / Style
Carries a public purpose broadly and forcefully through simple imagery and few printed colors.
- Festival of Britain Style 1951–1950s / Style
Postwar Britain's bright modernism spreading from the 1951 festival site: thin legs, molecular patterns and light script faces turning post-austerity optimism into a national visual language.
- Canadian Modern 1960s–1970s / Style
Canada's public-sector modernism crystallized in the CN mark, Expo 67 and the Federal Identity Program: restrained geometry and bilingual system design as a working example of designing a nation.
- Mexico 68 Identity 1966–1968 / Style
The Olympic identity Wyman built for Mexico City: concentric lines radiating from the logotype into venues, uniforms and stamps, fusing Op art with folk art and wrapping a whole city in pulsing imagery.
- DIN 1451 1931– / Style
The engineering lettering standardized as a German industrial norm: a skeleton reproducible with ruler and compass unifying road signs and industrial marking — trust born of impersonality, later beloved by designers.
- Postage Stamp Design 1840– / Style
Since the Penny Black, the state's face engraved into a few centimeters. Intaglio precision, the perforated edge and denomination formulas, and national image policy lodge maximum institution in minimum paper.
- Banknote Guilloche 18th century– / Technique
The banknote style in which lathe-cut guilloche curves and engraved portraits refuse forgery while making credit visible. America's 1896 Educational Series raised the banknote to allegorical masterpiece.