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Article: PRIVATE VIEW: From pillar to poster.(industry forecasts)
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- Design Week
- Article date:
- March 2, 2006
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With the takeover of giant billboards, Adrian Shaughnessy laments the death of the poster and claims it has a central place in graphic design history
Last May, I attended the International Poster and Graphic Arts Festival in Chaumont, North East France. It was a remarkable event - an invigorating celebration of graphic design, with the well-established poster competition as its centrepiece, and numerous supporting events.
For a few days each year, this little town plays host to the great and the good of French design, and is invaded by a determined army of students (the poster-tubes sticking out of their rucksacks look like rifles) who fill up the ...