East German Design
東ドイツのデザイン / 1949–1990 / Style / Regional Graphics
The GDR's everyday design under a planned economy: scarcity-bred plastic simplicity, artless state advertising and the lyricism of DEFA film posters — a vanished state's style now reappraised.
Simplicity bred by constraint / Artless state advertising / Plastic color / Lyrical film posters
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- the DEFA poster artists / the Sonnenblume tableware / Ostalgie and reappraisal