Questions about the Postmodern Design poster

What’s on the Postmodern Design poster?

The modernist claim against The postmodern reply, side by side. The modernist claim: Form follows function; The modernist claim: The grid is objective; The modernist claim: Ornament is dishonest; The modernist claim: One correct solution exists; The modernist claim: Universal, ahistorical, neutral; The postmodern reply: Function is never neutral; The postmodern reply: The grid encodes a hierarchy; The postmodern reply: Ornament carries meaning; The postmodern reply: Solutions are contingent and local; The postmodern reply: Quotation and history are legitimate; Venturi 1966, Weingart at Basel from the 1970s, Memphis 1981, Emigre and April Greima…. Postmodern design now has dates of its own. Treat it as a historical argument, not as permission for anything at all.

Who is the Postmodern Design poster for?

Postmodern Design belongs to the Art & Design section rather than to a school year, because design is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning art history can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.

When should you use the Postmodern Design poster?

Use it when defending or attacking a deliberately broken layout. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Postmodern Design belongs on the wall where that design work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Postmodern Design?

Abstract Expressionism, Arts & Crafts and Bauhaus sit alongside Postmodern Design in the Art & Design section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Abstract ExpressionismArts & CraftsBauhaus

Is the Postmodern Design poster free to download and print?

Yes. Postmodern Design downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Art & Design section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence

What size does the Postmodern Design poster print at?

Postmodern Design is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Postmodern Design loses nothing.Printing guide