100 Poster Battle 2020–2021
By Students of FH Dortmund with Lars Harmsen
We are pleased about todays release of 100 Poster Battle 2020–2021, which is now available at our Slanted Shop! Students at Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts with Lars Harmsen have spent the past Corona semester daily exploring both analog and digital poster design possibilities, creating original compositions and graphics that have been bound together in the publication in eight chapters according to design guidelines.
Sober: A poster should invite, communicate, inform, convince, and also provoke. If a viewer feels addressed, a poster is able to influence his or her decisions through text and images.
Emotional: @100posterbattle—one poster a day, for a hundred days, the span of a semester. Inspired by daily events from politics and current affairs. With the aim to try out different techniques, beyond the limits of conventional tools.
In the end, 100 days of poster design reads like a diary. 2020/21 was marked by the pandemic and its consequences for culture, society, and education, the scary tweets of Trump and the upcoming US-elections, BLM, LGBTQ, Söder and Laschet in the power struggle, pro-democracy demos in Thailand, climate goals 2030, and fun-facts like the height of Mt. Everest which has shrunk by 86 cm, the eruption of the Sakurajima volcano in Japan, Elon Musk has become the richest man in the world as well as the boom of sextoys …
100 Poster Battle 2020–2021
Editor: Dortmund University of Applied Sciences
Publisher: Slanted Publishers
Release: September 2021
Supervision and Text: Prof. Lars Harmsen
Design: Chantal Dübel, Claudia Müller, Nina Kallerhoff, Janine Krause, Saeeda Shabbir, Sinan Akpinar
Volume: 244 pages
Format: 180 × 240 mm
ISBN: 978-3-948440-29-9
Price: € 30.–
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