5 Images of Modernist & Post Modernist Design

Modernist

The modernist era was one known for keeping a strict uniform style of simplicity, function over form and clean, efficient looking Graphic design. I think that these 5 images fit into the category of Modernist design.

This first image is modernist because of the use of simple colours and geometric shapes and how it is so clean and minimalistic. Allner, W 1953 'Fortune Cover'

This second image in one done in the style of modernism which was for a modernism exhibition at the V&A Gallery in London during 2006.

The next image is one that is used by the National Park Service and is a series of icons and pictographs which I believe interpret modernism through how simple they are and also the choice of colours.

This next image is from the cover of the book Swiss Graphic Design and I think is modernist due to many factors such as the font, colours, layout and is just overall a modernist piece of Graphic Design.

The next image is the Iconic London underground map, which is the first edition. This image is modernist due  to its simplicity and the idea of function over form.

Post Modernism

These next 5 images I believe fit into the category of Post Modernism, which was the era straight after modernism which was all about bending the rules and at times using the idea that there was no rules, this meant that there was no distinctive 'post modernist uniform style'.

This first image is one that I don't particularly like due to how the colours clash and how it can be seen to be tacky, it was a cover for the ID magazine.

The next image is again a magazine cover for WET, which I think is postmodernist due to dexterity of colours used and the way that shapes have been used.

This next image is a cover for eye magazine which I believe works as post Modernism due to shapes being so non geometric and the style of image being so loose.

The next image is a iconic image from the Post modernist era. The Cambells Soup by Andy Warhol.

The last image I have chosen to be post-modernism is the God save the queen by Sex Pistols. This was also another iconic style of post modernist graphic design.