Catherine Zask (Poster Collection)

by Henri Gaudin (Contributor), Catherine de Smet

One of the most innovative French graphic designers, Catherine Zask's posters have the elegance and coherence of DNA, and indeed she works with the building blocks of writing and communication--letters. Here, in Poster Collection 12 , the series from the Zurich Museum fr Gestaltung, she allows the letters free rein to be musical, to trigger echoes, to store images, but never unmoors them from their task of providing written communication in an appropriate and comprehensible form. The dialogue with the client and the public is crucially important to “I make graphics to include the others.” Her work for SCAM (Societe Civile des Auteurs Multim»dia), the Hippodrome theater in Douai, and the Öcole d'Architecture Paris-Malaquais are evidence of the remarkable clarity and unmistakable individuality of her work.

64 pages, Paperback

First published October 28, 2005

Reviews

[Jimmy · Rating 4 out of 5]

another great installment from the poster collection series. zask is french, and she gives a nice take on typography. and she mostly does posters. what's not to like? the only drawback of this series is there's not really any good information in the books besides the images...

[Devon · Rating 5 out of 5]

For those who like looking at letters arranged beautifully.