Poster of the Week
The Beatles recorded on four tracks for most of their career. Mondrian climbed to fame on a ladder of vertical and horizontal lines. Art Chantry turned the world of graphic design upside down using rub-on letters and a photocopier. Great, creative innovations are often a clever response to certain limitations. Whether technological, budgetary, or self-imposed, these restrictions can help artists zero in on powerful and direct techniques. This poster's simple, bold use of only one color (a fierce neon orange) and one iconographic image (a boy dangling over a mousetrap) commands attention in a way that busier, more colorful posters can't compete with--and isn't that what it's about? Stomping the competition? CORIANTON HALE
Foundation Show
April 22 - May 1, Emily Carr Institute
Got a great poster we should consider for Poster of the Week?
Send a high-resolution, color .jpg (no more than 1MB) to potw@thestranger.com.
The event your poster advertises must be at least 10 days in the future in order for us to consider it.
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