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The Circus Is Brighter in Poland, and Other News
By
Dan Piepenbring
April 1, 2014
On the Shelf
“Cyrk” poster, designed by Lech Majewski, Poland, 1973.
D. H. Lawrence’s hometown has
opened a new pub called the Lady Chatterley
.
An enterprising fourteen-year-old has an urgent message for the government:
change your official typeface to Garamond
and you’ll save millions.
Shakespeare plays
illustrated in three easy panels
. (“Three witches tell Macbeth he will be king. Macbeth kills lots of people in order to be king. Macbeth is killed.”)
Taking stock of
Monocle
, which is now seven years old: “a magazine that is in general focused on a particular brand of well-heeled global urbanism …
Monocle
doesn’t have bureaus, it has
bureaux
…
what
Monocle
and its advertisers clearly understand, even if the point is seldom made explicit, is that living in a first-tier city is a luxury good, like a Prada bag or a pair of Hermès boots.”
Don’t merely go to the circus.
Go to the circus in Communist-era Poland
. “The visual style of the
Polish School of Posters
, funded and sponsored by state commissions, was characterized by vibrant colors, playful humor, hand-lettering, and a bold surrealism that rivaled anything similar artists in the West were doing at the time.”
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