I choose to focus my inquiry this week on the work of Gunter Rambow, a German Graphic designer who's work I had seen in past yet was unaware of the volume and breadth of his talent and resume, wanted to know more.
Rambow himself was born in Mecklenburg, Germany, in 1938 and grew up in the post war Communist East German society. His initial training was as a glass painter before transfering to a graphic design program at the Academy of Design in Kessel West Germany, where he eventually taught for two decades as a professor of graphic design later in his career.
When he was 22 he began his own graphic design studio in Kessel, and as years progressed was joined in his creative quests by Gerhard Lienemeyer, and Michael van de Sand, moving the studio eventually to Frankfurt. The group focused upon creative posters which dealt with the social and political quandaries of the time, very progressive and left leaning in their scope.
His Theatrical posters pushed boundaries, and were a caustic interpretation on everyday life. Confrontational imagery is and has been the hallmark of Rambow's stylistic leanings. Through use of documentary photography, another of his mediums, he manifests his abstract ideas on subject matter in his compositions which juxtapose controversial images with graphic texts that confront modern societies problems and seeming shortcomings.
To say his provocations are powerful is an understatement, he has taken the graphic medium , along with his photography to uncharted territory, and brilliantly so.
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