Virtual museum of socialist era graphic design in Bulgaria(socmus.com)

151 pointsby NaOH9 days ago9 comments

yehat6 days ago
That's a great idea, but missing one of the best categories there - book covers. With that regard there's one particularly special category - Sci-Fi. In my opinion the work of Tekla Aleksieva in that period is one of the most influential and inspiring works I ever seen regarding book cover illustration. I'm still looking for a complete online gallery of her amazing work, but here're some places one can check about what she was bringing: -https://sarieva.org/artists/tekla-aleksieva/selected -https://artviewer.org/tekla-aleksieva-at-sariev-gallery/ -https://blokmagazine.com/artist-feature-tekla-aleksieva/ -https://openartfiles.bg/en/people/3567-tekla-aleksieva
Klaster_16 days ago
Damn, there's even pixel art from 1986 in there: http://socmus.com/past/ppc/27.jpg
- phoronixrly6 days ago
  It says '13th Congress of BCP' (an abbreviation for Bulgarian Communist Party)
svilen_dobrev9 days ago
here all the .bg LP and cassettes produced:
https://balkanton.su/
shreyshnaccount6 days ago
is there a list of virtual museums? a museum of museums?
- cocodill6 days ago
  and if so, will this museum itself be included in the list?
  - jhbadger4 days ago
    Or even better, a virtual museum of all virtual museums that don't contain themselves, perhaps named in honor of Bertrand Russell.
tigro78 days ago
Soviet states always had a great taste in graphic design.
- kansface6 days ago
  Any thoughts on why this is the case? I have the same impression, but now I'm wondering if its survivor bias. I never lived through it, and have only been exposed to the best of it on the Internet.
  - jhbadger4 days ago
    Well, when the Soviet Union was starting out illiteracy was high because Tsarist Russia had a shortage of public schools. So propaganda that worked even if you couldn't read was important. And later states in the Soviet sphere like Communist Bulgaria got much of their cultural cues from the Soviet Union even if the reasons for them didn't necessarily apply.
- larodi5 days ago
  But it’s all very much brutalist isn’t it? So perhaps brutalist as an art movement was just really appealing or was taught extensively …
- andrei_says_6 days ago
  I think Poland and Yugoslavia also have great graphic design from that time - especially theatre posters.
  None of these countries were Soviet states of course - they were a part of the socialist block.
- InDubioProRubio6 days ago
  They did- they are so catchy, there recently was a post about Vietnamese graphic design - spectacular stuff and colors. This poppy propaganda plus the space tech is what generated the self-image of a "loosing" system capitalism in the west.
- fatih-erikli-cg6 days ago
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jugg1es6 days ago
Excellent collection of work
_rpxpx6 days ago
fantastic - thanks for posting
homebrewer6 days ago
Here's a simple stylesheet to disable scrolljacking and make browsing the site tolerable:
```
  #sgallery { height: unset; }
  #scontent { width: unset; }
```
It can be applied through the browser developer tools (F12 → Style Editor → + → paste the CSS there), or through one of the many user style extensions.
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boxed6 days ago
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