Designing Dictators

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The article was about a book titled Iron Fists, a graphic designer's study on four totalitarian leaders and the ways they used design in their "marketing."

I found this article to be very interesting. I had to admit, that while their practices were wrong, their design was intriguing, and like the article said, avant-garde. One of the pictures in particular stood out to me: Hitler's poster of "Give Me Four Years." He's using two of the most popular design elements I see everyday: drop shadow on his lettering, and grayscale with the emphasis on one color. The grayscale/emphasis on one color really stood out to me, because I see it used, and I use it, all the time.