5 Post-Modernist Graphic Designers

1. Johnathan Barnbrook.

Employs grunge post modern style to vocalise views on social and political issues. Mashes up image and text, with reduced legibility for decorational purposes. Uses bright or unpleasant colour sometimes for stylisation only. Designs decorative type and gains influence from traditional fonts.

http://www.barnbrook.net/
http://www.barnbrook.net/archive/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Barnbrook
http://designmuseum.org/design/jonathan-barnbrook
http://www.virusfonts.com/

2. Barbara Kruger

Graphic designer who picked up on themes from constructivism and feminism to create image and text smashups. Uses primarily black and red. Post-modern for her feminist themes and negative commentary on modern life.

http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/barbara-kruger
http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/feminist/Barbara-Kruger.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Kruger
http://www.barbarakruger.com/

3. Chad Kouri

Chad Kouri is a graphic designer practising in Chicago.He runs a great website where he showcases his projects from sketches to the final product. He tends to work with hand drawn type and image, with collage.

http://www.chadkouri.com/
http://www.longliveanalog.com/
http://thepostfamily.com/family/member/chad
http://www.booooooom.com/2012/01/17/collage-studies-by-artist-chad-kouri/

4. Neville Brody

Described as super contemporary, Brody creates decorative text and merges it with unconventional imagery and often uses fairly ugly colours by normal design standards. He furthers a post modern image by using strange grids and unreadable text.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Brody
http://vimeo.com/5800748/
http://vimeo.com/7704058/
http://www.researchstudios.com/

5. Victor Moscoso

Designer of psychedelic posters for bands starting in the 60's. His crazy style was far removed from the Swiss style which was also developing at the time. Use of heavily contrasting colour and photo on swirling pattern backgrounds was his signature style.

http://www.victormoscoso.com/about.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Moscoso
http://exhibits.denverartmuseum.org/psychedelic/the-artists