RUSSIAN REVOLUTION ICONOGRAPHY:
Men are shown as red, capitalist shown as black/Yellow/white
Capitalists are shown as fat, above the rest.
Mural painting on side of a AGITPROP train, bolsheviks killing the bourgeois.
Communist International posters.
'Red wedge and White Circle'
Very iconic symbols for the russians, The (red) wedge been the driving force (vanguard) into the circle/block (white). Depicts the moment of revolution, the attack of the Winter palace.
Marx and a factory skyline.
Statue of Marx.
Books based on the '10 days that shook the world' the story of the revolution.
Lenin statue, famous pose shown. Pointing left.
A worker UNCHAINING the world.
Another image, showing very similar symbolism.
Textile pattern by Stepanova.
Tatlin's Tower - Tower to the third international model.
Russian 1917 period factory workers.
Alexsander Rodchenko - Advertising material/ posters.
Constructivist
Worker imagery.
Russian children's books.
Russian Avant Garde books
Bolsheviks, armed with rifles and BAYONETS.
Modern day Russian books.
Modern day Childrens books.
Large type
Type fit around illustrations
Handdrawn type - eye catching orange.
Serif typeface - roughly 12pt.
Very modern childrens book. Rather tactile illustration. Hand drawn type.
Very short sentances - Serif typeface. Roughly 12pt.
Mog cover - desaturated, cute illustration.
Sentances are singular - sans serif. Roughly 12pt
Dr.Suess covers. Bright. Colourful, very eye catching.
Dr.Suess rhymes - A-B-A rhyming.
Highlighted text in red - for the characters spoken parts. Other character in black. Very effective.
Notches in pages, easier to turn.
DOUBLE SPINE- this allows the pages to lay flat when you hold it. The extra crease gives you leverage.
POP - UPS.
Examples of making them:
Table
Cubes.
Advanced tables.
Hedges
Arches
Big table.
This pop-up spins whhen you open it because of this crease mechanism. It's very effective and cool to open. I'd imagine the kid opening this over and over. It's clever.
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