Nostalgia in Graphic Design
This Independent Study takes a nostalgic look back on poster design in graphic design history. To see if there is a repeating wave of design trends or special techniques and styles which appear every now and then in graphic design. The book contains posters of different decades and art or design waves. On a double page two posters are compared due to its technique, design, content or similarity. Completing the trending topic of nostalgia, the publication contains researches about psychological and social issues for being nostalgic as well as an historical research about nostalgic art, design and media. To summarize all the collected posters they were joined together in a timeline of the different art trends through the centuries. From this a poster was created connecting the compared images to see if there are repetitions or special attributes.
