a real creativity

as i have already written, i like when design is playful, made with fun and creativity. look at this webpage http://uaddit.com/discussions/showthread.php?t=642

- 19 very creative use of advertisments! i had a lot of fun going through them :)

does desing have a deeper meaning?

we saw many designs in the class and it uncovered a great part of our life to me. i never thought about it and i was never aware there are so many interesting things around us. so i started to think about design and all the things around it and i found out what design i like and why. the first thing i like about it is fun and play. that's why i like cassandre and his playing with word:

and that's why i like fukuda and his playing with reality:

but that is the first and most obvious thing i like. there is also one other thing i like about design: it can express our attitude towards society and it can carry not only beauty but also some deep social symbolism. i am always deeply affected by posters showing social issued. especially, i like the benetton ads and this one the most:

do you like it as well? it may be a "professional deformation" but i am always attrected by something that is not simply an advertisement trying hard to persuade me to buy the product. to me, we should be reminded that the world is not only a nice place.

and so is my attitude to political protest-posters. like these two...

yep, that is what i like about design :)

Just Britons want you?

we saw two war posters asking young men to join the army. the first and original one was british:

the second we saw was american:

i am pretty sure everybody know this poster. it is still very popular as an inspiration and to me, as a european citizen, this picture kind of symbolises the united states. it is simply something that belongs to america, to its history and to its culture. so it was a really big surprise to me when i found this:

i would NEVER believe that russian communism could take an inspiration from capitalist american bourgeois exploiters ;)