You can be anything: advertising, Anti-advertising, art, Anti-art. But one thing all the posters want to stand out:. In digital times, they threaten to disappear. The Berlin Kulturforum shows previously the best 100 copies.
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The best posters 2016
The criticism of capitalism, according to Beuys
Under the Motto “the capital. debt-to – territory – utopia” addressed in the last year, an exhibition at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin with Joseph Beuys’ work of the 1970s. The action the artist was not money, but the creative Potential of the people at the center of economic thought. According to the Motto: “art = capital”.
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The best posters 2016
War on the doorstep
The Lebanese artist Akram Zaatari told in his exhibition “This Day At Ten” as he witnessed the Lebanon war in 1982. The then-16-Year-old had decided to put the turmoil of the war between Israel and his home country in photos and tape recordings of his parents ‘ house. The collected memories were seen from may to July in 2016 at the Kunsthaus Zurich.
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The best posters 2016
Listen
“Listen,” called the choreographer Sasha Waltz a seven-day series of events in Berlin. In focus: the current crises. In the exchange with her dance piece “Continu” held roundtables on the topics of Film, literature, and political participation, in which artists, journalists, politicians and people involved in rights activists.
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The best posters 2016
Wide awake
Coke keeps you awake, Cola with extra caffeine is still awake. There’s a raccoon to Wachbär and the constable is the master of the watch. The Hamburg-based beverage company “fritz-kola” made this poster series to make the list of the best 100 posters in the German-speaking area in 2016. Submissions from the advertising industry to bring it rare among the winners.
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The best posters 2016
Dangerous Weapon
Friedrich dürrenmatt’s “The physicists” combines Comedy and sheer Horror. The focus of the drama is a discovery that is so powerful that it could destroy the world. Again and again, dürrenmatt in his play the question of the responsibility of science. In 1962, The physicist, was premiered in Zurich. At the beginning of 2017, it was seen in the Mainz state theatre.
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The best posters 2016
No one-sided affair
With this devilish greeting the poster in the Top 100 managed. The special feature: It is double-sided. On the front there is a Cover-visualization of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s “Faust”, while on the back of the full Text of the tragedy is printed.
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The best posters 2016
Abstract Comic Art
The light colors printed poster advertises the annual Comic Festival in the French Aix-en-Provence. It comes from the Berlin-based graphic designer and Comic artist Henning Wagenbreth. The generous use of rich colors and the many abstract mythical creatures are typical for Wagenbreths style.
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The best posters 2016
More than welcome
“Beyond the Welcome” is the name of the poster series of the series of events that took place last year in Berlin. The sole purpose of the posters were designed for Advertising in addition to as a Discussion kick-off in the public space. In various languages on problems of Refugees in Germany to your attention.
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The best posters 2016
The form thing
This poster with the title “Neighbours” is pumping out the work of the Frankfurt Timo. The “North Norwegian centre for Design and Architecture” had to be invoked in cooperation with an Initiative of designers and Creatives to design a Poster on the theme of “Shape” (Form). Lenzens one extension managed to prompt one of the best 100 posters of 2016.
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The best posters 2016
A quarter of a century plus five
On the occasion of the 30. Birthday of the PAGE magazine for media design, designed by the Swiss Josh Schaub a Cover, on which he illustrated, random facts about the number 30 and the viewer, by the way, a computing task. His posters, in addition to the artistic always an informative claim, made it several times in recent years in the Top 100.
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The best posters 2016
The criticism of capitalism, according to Beuys
Under the Motto “the capital. debt-to – territory – utopia” addressed in the last year, an exhibition at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin with Joseph Beuys’ work of the 1970s. The action the artist was not money, but the creative Potential of the people at the center of economic thought. According to the Motto: “art = capital”.
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The best posters 2016
War on the doorstep
The Lebanese artist Akram Zaatari told in his exhibition “This Day At Ten” as he witnessed the Lebanon war in 1982. The then-16-Year-old had decided to put the turmoil of the war between Israel and his home country in photos and tape recordings of his parents ‘ house. The collected memories were seen from may to July in 2016 at the Kunsthaus Zurich.
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The best posters 2016
Listen
“Listen,” called the choreographer Sasha Waltz a seven-day series of events in Berlin. In focus: the current crises. In the exchange with her dance piece “Continu” held roundtables on the topics of Film, literature, and political participation, in which artists, journalists, politicians and people involved in rights activists.
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The best posters 2016
Wide awake
Coke keeps you awake, Cola with extra caffeine is still awake. There’s a raccoon to Wachbär and the constable is the master of the watch. The Hamburg-based beverage company “fritz-kola” made this poster series to make the list of the best 100 posters in the German-speaking area in 2016. Submissions from the advertising industry to bring it rare among the winners.
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The best posters 2016
Dangerous Weapon
Friedrich dürrenmatt’s “The physicists” combines Comedy and sheer Horror. The focus of the drama is a discovery that is so powerful that it could destroy the world. Again and again, dürrenmatt in his play the question of the responsibility of science. In 1962, The physicist, was premiered in Zurich. At the beginning of 2017, it was seen in the Mainz state theatre.
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The best posters 2016
No one-sided affair
With this devilish greeting the poster in the Top 100 managed. The special feature: It is double-sided. On the front there is a Cover-visualization of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s “Faust”, while on the back of the full Text of the tragedy is printed.
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The best posters 2016
Abstract Comic Art
The light colors printed poster advertises the annual Comic Festival in the French Aix-en-Provence. It comes from the Berlin-based graphic designer and Comic artist Henning Wagenbreth. The generous use of rich colors and the many abstract mythical creatures are typical for Wagenbreths style.
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The best posters 2016
More than welcome
“Beyond the Welcome” is the name of the poster series of the series of events that took place last year in Berlin. The sole purpose of the posters were designed for Advertising in addition to as a Discussion kick-off in the public space. In various languages on problems of Refugees in Germany to your attention.
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The best posters 2016
The form thing
This poster with the title “Neighbours” is pumping out the work of the Frankfurt Timo. The “North Norwegian centre for Design and Architecture” had to be invoked in cooperation with an Initiative of designers and Creatives to design a Poster on the theme of “Shape” (Form). Lenzens one extension managed to prompt one of the best 100 posters of 2016.
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The best posters 2016
A quarter of a century plus five
On the occasion of the 30. Birthday of the PAGE magazine for media design, designed by the Swiss Josh Schaub a Cover, on which he illustrated, random facts about the number 30 and the viewer, by the way, a computing task. His posters, in addition to the artistic always an informative claim, made it several times in recent years in the Top 100.
Since the end of the 19th century. Century, we encounter almost daily: colorful sheets of paper printed in the public space, even posters. Mostly they serve the purpose of advertising, whether it’s for an exhibition, a concert, a drink or a political party. But in a digitized world posters go to waste as a means of advertising is becoming more of a marginal phenomenon. Advertising in social networks is much more effective, longer lasting, and cheaper.
And yet posters are still a popular form of mass media. Often they are real works of art – sometimes plain, sometimes fancy, sometimes abstract, sometimes realistic. The 100 best posters of the year-on-year of 16. June to 2. To see July 2017 in the Foyer of Berlin’s cultural forum at the Potsdamer Platz. In collaboration with the Association “100 beste Plakate e. V.” presents the art library of the Berlin State museums, is now for the eleventh Time by an independent and every year new Jury selection.
In the election campaign, they are usually unimaginative: posters as election advertising for the NRW state election in 2017
A dying art form?
From more than 2,000 entries, the five judges had to select 100 winners. A total of 632 candidates from Germany, Austria and Switzerland had submitted their Work. According to the Jury Chairman, Alain Le Quernec, all specimens would have a cultural claim. Advertising communication would be extremely rare. You must between advertising and graphic design are different posters. “These are different worlds, in each of which a character of its own Canon and its own laws apply,” said Le Quernec, in an Interview with the Kettler-Verlag.
That the advertising and other means of communication could displace the Medium of the poster soon, entirely, the Frenchman is out of the question. Accurate forecasts for the future, he would not like to but and said: “This Medium will survive as long as young talents find it attractive, and the demand for it continues.”
By brushing as eye-catcher: A Billboard as an advertising space
Competition with Tradition
After the Premiere in the German capital, the exhibition in Essen, Nuremberg, Lucerne, Zurich, Vienna and La Chaux-de-Fonds. Parallel to the launch event of the Kettler-Verlag publishes a Yearbook with pictures of the 100 excellent specimens. Into the life of the poster competition was created about 50 years ago in the GDR. After 1989, he was overall German competition continued and held for 16 years in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.