Erik Nitsche, the enigmatic designer for General Dynamics, who's design helped to rehabilitate the image of Nuclear energy to the public after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and Max Huber, the Swiss designer who pushed the bounds of what Swiss design could be. This poster project honors the monumental work of the two of them in a mashup of the apex of modernist styles.
The poster was designed to be displayed at a hypothetical museum exhibit about the modernist movement. It provides a little bit of history on the two designers and their significance to Swiss design.
The process of this project really informed my thinking on context within design. As a standalone piece, it's the layout is competent and the graphic is visually interesting, but with background knowledge of the works of Erik Nitsche and Max Huber, the design becomes a compelling modernist story.
For a viewer that knows nothing about the two designers, the poster represents a story. After understanding the content of the written text of the poster, it goes on to inform the rest of the design, forcing the viewer to look at it twice, once at the beginning and once after reading.
