Das Plakat isst eine Fläche.
Das Plakat isst eine Fläche. from Slanted Publishers
Das Plakat isst eine Fläche.

Are posters still surfaces that catch the eye? Can they tell a continuous story, a “Poster Novel,” as the original design working title was called? Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences looks back on a diverse and lively tradition of posters. Starting in 1968 with Uwe Loesch’s corrugated cardboard posters, through the outstanding typographic poster formats by Helfried Hagenberg, Fons Hickmann, and Andreas Uebele, to contemporary works by talented students, sometimes extending into digital space and augmented reality. Now these posters have been brought together: Das Plakat isst eine Fläche. (a German wordplay for “The poster eats/is a surface”). Like in a galley proof, texts and images are set on a continuous strip, to be later cut and bound into a book—a poster novel.

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Das Plakat isst eine Fläche.

Are posters still surfaces that catch the eye? Can they tell a continuous story, a “Poster Novel,” as the original design working title was called? Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences looks back on a diverse and lively tradition of posters. Starting in 1968 with Uwe Loesch’s corrugated cardboard posters, through the outstanding typographic poster formats by Helfried Hagenberg, Fons Hickmann, and Andreas Uebele, to contemporary works by talented students, sometimes extending into digital space and augmented reality. Now these posters have been brought together: Das Plakat isst eine Fläche. (a German wordplay for “The poster eats/is a surface”). Like in a galley proof, texts and images are set on a continuous strip, to be later cut and bound into a book—a poster novel.

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Editor, Designer, Publisher Karlsruhe, Germany