Russian posters

These three russian soviet posters range from 1950s.

Colours: Typical of the USSR/soviets, reds are used heavily on each of the poster designs.

The reds on each of the posters really dominate and become key in the posters:

The first poster is centered around this cosmonaut who is wearing red which also is the actual colour of the russian cosmonauts. The sickle and hammer as well as the shooting stars are also the same colour.

Typography: The text that these russian posters use are mostly all of the same style: big and bold.

These posters focus more on the images than than the text which you would expect for a poster, this means that the text is kept to minimum and used strategically on the design.

For example the text on the second poster has been slanted across the page other than the fourth where it has been placed bottom left. In comparison of poster two and four they look similar and potentially for the same cause, the fourth one carries a similar layout and utilises a more updated/newer look. The fourth poster actually has a rocket shape to the fire, putting the posters together I would look at them as the second one being they were reaching for the stars and then the fourth one shows that they managed it.

The first poster design the text actually curves around what I presume is the earth or another planet/moon, having the text there keeps the overall design quite clean and tidy.

Images: The posters all have an element of reds/oranges in them and the images within the posters are built around these colours: 3: Woman's bandana 4: The hand and rocket/fire 1: Cosmonaut and Sickle 2: The background.

Posters 1,3,4 use a drawn image style unlike the second one which uses a black and white image, the the the black and white image it doesn't really have the same effect as the other three which uses bright colours to draw in the audience.

Historical background: The space race was a part of the cold war between the USA and USSR that started after WW2 involving the handling of Germany after the War and the expansion of communism. Some key and pressured events were the Berlin Blockade (1948–1949), Korean War (1950–1953), Berlin Crisis of 1961, Vietnam War (1959–1975), Cuban Missile Crisis (1962), Soviet war in Afghanistan (1979–1989), Each side developed nuclear weapons aimed at each other, from there the space race was to get missiles to be launched from space, so both the USSR and USA developed instruments for space travel which ranged from putting a satellite into space to landing on the moon.

Style: The style or theme of these posters all relates around reaching up, the cosmonaut holding up the sickle and the hands reaching out, the posters revolve around the reds and oranges that are associated with the soviet union.