Constructivist

Reds, blacks, and bold diagonals

The Brief

Create a Constructivist-inspired propaganda poster

Trim Size

Tabloid/A3

Learning Points

  • Combining words of different scale

  • Aligning and spacing type

  • Applying live transformations

Tools

Illustrator

Fonts Used

Molot (dafont.com)

Inspiration

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We’ve grown accustomed to seeing the old Soviet Union as stodgy, dull, and inefficient. But believe it or not, there was a time when the things going on in Russia inspired the best minds of the day! Hard to imagine, but it’s true.

Some of those great minds were artists, designers, and architects, and from that moment in Russia came the Constructivist movement, led by artists like Vladimir Tatlin and Alexander Rodchenko, and influenced ...

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