5 Group Projects at ICA exhibition poster
Contributed by Dom Cooper on Oct 30th, 2024. Artwork published in
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3 Comments on “5 Group Projects at ICA exhibition poster”
Thanks, Dom! I wonder where the large letterforms used for the title came from. They are basically a match for Venus Bold Extended, but are distinguished by counters that get intersected by the vertical stems, see the countershape in g and p. Is this a poster cut (in wood), maybe? Or did Meller redrew the glyphs by hand, introducing these small deviations? The letters also seem to be a tad bolder – but not as bold as Venus Extrabold Extended.
Ah, I can answer the question myself: a look into a specimen poster issued by Letraset in 1965 reveals that their dry-transfer adaptation exhibits such counters. It doesn’t show the letters g and p, but we get to see the b.
Great to see Florian. Those details are what I like about it. The actual poster is a vibrant screenprint, and they could have used letraset on a transparency to make a screen.