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Josef Müller-Brockmann's concert posters

A series of posters for the Zurich Tonhalle turned musical structure into pure geometry.

Josef Müller-Brockmann's concert posters
PosterJosef Müller-Brockmann's concert posters

The system No photographs, no illustration. Arcs, bars and rotated grids, set in a single weight, printed in two or three colours.

Why it matters They are the clearest demonstration that abstraction can be specific. Each poster feels like the piece of music it announces, without depicting a single instrument.

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