24.3.12

Mechanical Reproduction

I have been thinking about works of graphic design that have been affected through reproduction and immediately thought about shepherd fairey because of his iconic communist styled designs. I don't necessarily want to focus on his work at the moment as I feel it is slightly more artistic than graphic design orientated but because of its historic graphic traits I feel it might be worth exploring further.

Its obvious where Shepard fairey has taken his influences from. His work always has some sort of mild underlying political messages or agenda the same way communist posters of the 80's did but because of his global fame his images are often seen out of content.







Possibly just exploring communist design as a whole might be a suitable take on the set task - as this example showing the reproduced Franz Ferdinand cover shows.