Playing with Type: Vintage Soviet Typography Posters
In the wake of the 1917 revolution, Soviet designers saw it as their patriotic duty to create an entirely new artistic language in service of their new socialist utopia. Art was a reflection of a modern, industrial society. It had no place in an artist’s studio, or even in a museum.
Artists treated typography as a visual element in and of itself. It communicated, engaged and entertained. Typefaces were readable, but they didn’t sit on a page like anything that had come before. Words were kaleidoscopic, with dynamic rhythmic designs that represented machine-age modernity. Read more
A Keve Art Exhibition | Hungary | 1984
£400
State Administration of the Ministry of Space Communications | Russia | 1979
£250
Want-Love, Want-Not | Russia | 1988
£350
Frantic | Poland | 1988
£350
67th Anniversary of the Great Socialist October Revolution | Poland | 1984
£500
"We will not Retreat from our Line on Peace!" M.S. Gorbachev | Russia | 1986
£200
Our Buildings | Ukraine | 1981
£200
A Delicacy - Carp | East Germany | 1957
£200
ABBA | Czechoslovakia | 1979
£950
The Lonely White Sail | East Germany | 1978
£250
Lenin's Party Shows the Way | Ukraine | 1983
£250
Horizons | Germany | 1974
£550
Tim & Bim | Russia | 1966
£500
Communist Party, Peace | Russia | 1983
£300
Take Care of the Springs! | Russia | 1986
£200
Call Me Lawyer | Hungary | 1967
£650
Don't Leave at Height | Russia | 1990
£250
World Convention of Youth in Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Lenin | Russia | 1970
£750
Circus on Stage | Russia | 1970s
£750
Dutch Housing Architecture | Hungary | 1973
£300
Moscow Zoo | Russia | 1988
£750
Pink Flower | Russia | 1988
£250