sandwiched him between a jumble of letterforms, somewhat akin to a wall
of graffiti.
Wolfe wanted his posters to be like old LP album covers, and
Scher, who designed albums for CBS Records in the 1970 s, has certainly
obliged by making them very graphic. But while most of her posters owe a
spiritual debt to street graphics, they do not look like anything else on the
street. One needs only to look at construction hoardings where sniped
posters for Blade to the Heartand The Diva Is Dismissedwere hung; both
had the allure of untutored street graphics, but stood noticeably apart. The
Bladeposter, for example, featured an enlarged process-color photo of a
boxer in a typical fighting stance with the large dots of the color plates
knocked out of register in a pun on the punch drunk nature of the play’s
protagonist. The Divaposter showed the huge face of Jennifer Lewis,
whose one-person show this was, with a kinetic propeller of type coming
from her open mouth. The forms were somewhat vernacular, and therefore
beckoned, but it was the subtle wit that gave them resonance and fostered
memorability.
tuis.
(Tuis.)
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