Mexico 68 Identity
メキシコ68 / 1966–1968 / Style / Public Design
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.
Radiating concentric lines / Op-art vibration / Fusion with folk art / City-scale deployment
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- 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
- Lance Wyman / the connection to Huichol art / design and politics in 1968