Cover Design for Transition
Date
1968
Credits
- Michael Adams Designer
Format
- Magazine 783
Type of Work
- Document 44
Printers
Techniques
- printmaking 40
Locations Made
Michael Adams was a painter and a printmaker who designed several covers for Transition Magazine.
This cover design underscores how designers in Africa used visual methods to discuss political events. It was created post-colonialism, causing it to have a blend of cultural influences. There is evidence of the psychedelic movement in the fluidity of the background, but traditional elements of African design in the structure.
This cover design exemplifies how graphic design can be used to explore complex narratives within the cultural language of a region.
Michael Adams. Cover Design for Transition, no. 36 (1968)