Dada

In favor of irrationality

The Brief

Create a Dada-inspired poster highlighting a slogan of the movement

Trim Size

Tabloid/A3

Learning Points

  • Working with the Touch Type tool in Illustrator

  • Experimenting with scale

  • Overprinting effects

Tools

Illustrator

Fonts Used

Birch, Clarendon Text, Rosewood Fill, Alternate Gothic No 1, Adobe Caslon Pro, Adobe Wood Type Ornaments

Inspiration & Resources

pin.it/1wnjN2H

www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/d/dada

texturepalace.com

The early 20th century avant-garde art movement known as Dada rejected reason and logic, which it regarded as having failed to prevent the catastrophe of the First World War. If mass death was sane and orderly, these artists asked, why not embrace nonsense, irrationality, and intuition? ...

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