Although the lectures are organized roughly by date from top to bottom, it is still very difficult to locate upcoming lectures. This is especially a problem when cruising by the building-scale poster hanging on gund hall. And on top of it, there is not much gained by the unconventional ordering. Maybe I'll ask Richard Saul Wurman about this after the lecture on the 17th.

Posted by: rpsnino on Oct 13, 08 | 10:56 am

That is a difficult poster indeed .... also, some effort should have gone into differentiating landscape/UP/and architecture.

Posted by: Smokety Mc Smoke Smoke on Oct 13, 08 | 1:51 pm

an embarrassment to say the least... unless when you fold it becomes a Pterodactyl... that would be sweet.

Posted by: Balagan on Oct 13, 08 | 6:34 pm

the texts definitely look like they were an afterthought...as if the designer has been holding on to the background design and waiting for the chance to use it.

it looks like the designer is aware of the possiblity of a reference to autumn but decided to twist and not indulge in the obvious display of autumness. instead an ironic mondrian-like "abstraction" of leaves on the ground using printer cartridge colors?

Posted by: strlt_typ on Oct 14, 08 | 11:54 pm

looks like an architecture student designed it.

Posted by: disinfect on Oct 16, 08 | 6:51 am

Balagan, I agree with you this is an embarrassment to the GSD as an institution. Who designed this?

One expects better from Architecture schools, specially the so called 'elites'. Pretty good lectures though.

Posted by: Elimelech on Oct 16, 08 | 7:20 am

Wait, sorry, when have architects (or their academies) ever been good at graphic design?

That being said... I like the poster as a graphic, even if it's not very legible. In an ideal world the illegibility of this poster would be a non issue because you would be getting all of your data from an RSS feed. But of course that is still being sorted out at the GSD. Oh wait, there is one!

Posted by: bryan boyer on Oct 16, 08 | 11:36 am

F-UGLY!

Posted by: odee on Oct 16, 08 | 12:43 pm

I'm not a fan of this poster. The one thing I do like, however, is that people all over the trays here in Gund have taken to cutting the poster and placing it in a way that suits them. Poster as Process.

Posted by: Quilian Riano on Oct 21, 08 | 7:27 pm

Definitely not as sophisticated as you would expect a GSD poster to be. Looks like someone already recycled this and made a slightly better use of it:

http://www.archinect.com/lectureposters/poster.php?id=81850_0_55_0_C

Posted by: dj sun-tanner on Oct 31, 08 | 8:41 am

FAIL

Posted by: nerdy by nature on Nov 04, 08 | 12:45 pm

I heard this was designed at Lars Mueller's office...

Posted by: LB on Nov 09, 08 | 7:36 am

Wow, they just keep getting worse. We all complained about how bad the GSD lecture posters were a couple years ago. Seems they're in a race to the bottom with this latest one.

Posted by: ztn on Nov 09, 08 | 6:55 pm

a bullet may have been dodged... it seems only "favorites" when voted for will be brought to light.

Posted by: mobarchitecture on Nov 11, 08 | 8:22 pm

quantity over quantity.

Posted by: led signal light on Nov 13, 08 | 7:31 pm

I like that it sucks. Thumbs way up.

Posted by: minnick on Nov 15, 08 | 9:58 pm

none of we students feel that this is a good poster design. Totally with Balagan.

Posted by: amandake on Nov 15, 08 | 10:00 pm

The intent of these posters isn't to inform students about lecture dates. The intent of these posters is to bolster the portfolios of young, struggling graphic designers.

Posted by: minnick on Nov 15, 08 | 10:17 pm

I don't mind it.

Posted by: FrankLloydMike on Nov 17, 08 | 6:59 am

While it is colorful and pleasant to look at from afar, this poster is defeated by its illegibility. For instance, if it's Oct 21, can you tell who is speaking? Dates are not even in chronological order, everything is mashed together. Worse yet, if it's Oct 19, you would have to look through each of the triangles to know that there is NO lecture that day.
As an image, it's fine, as a poster whose intent it is to inform you of events, it requires too much time from the reader. I imagine that Harvard is littered with these posters with big X's on past lectures, to facilitate the use of the posters.

Posted by: ScarfFace on Nov 20, 08 | 7:47 am

It looks like any architecture cover book from 60´s and 70´s...thereretical times...very retro.

Posted by: Carlos Eduardo on Jan 17, 09 | 6:24 pm

As an image/graphic, I must say i like it. I think it is definitely not some mundane architecture-school-like-"cool"-image-wannabe. However, as others pointed out, it is not a good poster at all which is supposed to inform you about the lectures in a logical way....

Posted by: rmsnmz on Feb 02, 09 | 7:10 pm

awful

Posted by: a2 on Feb 07, 09 | 2:22 pm

It looks dated. I'm not a huge fan of the pastel color palate. It's also not that easy to read. I expect more from Harvard.

- Lucas Gray
www.talkitect.com

Posted by: www.talkitect.com on Apr 10, 09 | 4:33 am

usual harvard work! im not fully surprised by the lack of design and text used. its hard to read and lacks order and simplicity. too much going on here.

if you want to be a theory prof. then go to harvard! if you want to become a good designer and one that really understands architecture then choose columbia over the gsd.

Posted by: 212archstudio on Apr 16, 09 | 9:23 pm