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- Title
„GAMINIAI BUS PUIKŪS“ - LIETUVIŠKŲ PREKIŲ REKLAMA IR GRAFINIS DIZAINAS XX a. 6 deš. pab. - 7 deš. (VIETINIAI IR EKSPORTINIAI VARIANTAI).
- Authors
Jakaitė, Karolina
- Abstract
The typical propaganda promise "The products will be excellent" included in the title of the article takes the examples of Lithuanian graphic design of the late 1950s and 1960s back to the context of the modernization race and Cold War era. The article presents advertisements published in the Science and Technology magazine in 1959- 1968, examples of graphic design of Lithuanian household electric appliances (radio-recorders Neringa and Vaiva, vacuum cleaners Venta and Saturnas), and promotional posters, packages, labels and brand logos of food and light industry products designed by the artists who worked at the Experimental Package Design Bureau. The analysis of the selected graphic design examples employs archival sources and studies by Lithuanian and foreign authors, seeking to reveal the peculiar features of modernisation and expression of the Lithuanian national character. There were certainly some flashes of modernity - the examples abound in vivid colours, dynamic and asymmetric compositions, stylishly elongated fonts and imagery that reflects the fashions of the time, which also demonstrates the professionalism of the artists in their effort to keep up with the Western advertising trends. The modernisation of the artistic language and means is combined with national symbols and signs. Unfortunately, most of the modern-looking examples of graphic design were intended for exhibitions and presentations abroad. In order to reveal the differences of the graphic design examples that were created for export, the article includes a case study of the Lithuanian pavilion at the 1968 Soviet trade and industry exhibition in London. An analysis of its concept, design, specially created works of art, and promotional publications allows to call it one of the most interesting presentations of Lithuania in the West during the Soviet times; it was international (modern and Western) in its form and national in its content. Expanded stories of Lithuanian design objects of the late 1950s and 1960s contribute new details and aspects to Soviet studies - particularly, studies of Khrushchev-era modernism and design of the Cold War epoch. They also introduce a possibility to analyze the work of individual authors and integrate the examples of Lithuanian graphic design created in the Soviet period into international discourses.
- Subjects
LITHUANIA; GRAPHIC design; ARTISTS; PROFESSIONALISM; ADVERTISING
- Publication
Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis, 2011, Issue 61, p77
- ISSN
1392-0316
- Publication type
Article