Online Greenlight Review

02/11/16
Polly Gwinnett

What If?
Metropolis

Max Huber Summary

Max Hubers work is very colourful, using a sort of collage technique, he
creates interesting and eye catching pieces.
He was a graphic designer born in Switzerland in 1919 and studied at
Zurich School of Arts and Crafts.
He began his career in the Avant-guard environment.
He has always worked as a freelance designer. He enjoyed clients
ridiculous requests, as it gives him opportunities to experiment and play
around with designs.
He often uses photographs mixed with typography and puts it with strips of
colour to create a sense of movement and speed.
He uses bold shapes and primary colours. He used succinct texts, a large
title with secondary information in a smaller type, a sequence of levels.
People saw him as a protagonist, and a completely original figure within the
Italian art scene. He lived during a generation of change within politics as
well as social and cultural.
His influences came from a list of friendships and connections. His
Swiss,constructionistbackground influenced his constant use of flat
figures. Furthermore, Avant-guard artists Moholy-Nagy, PietZwartand
Max Bill.
He appliedUtopianaesthetics to his commercial environments throughout
his life.
He found further influence in Futurist machines and motion, and we can see
this all throughout his work.
He started to alternate between commercial commissions along with
personal experimentation along with teaching graphic design.
His work has a very unique design to it, his use of colour has a very
contrasting look and feel.

Influence Map

Travelogue
As you walk towards Rosilia, the angular silhouettes cut through the sun beams. The buildings varying in height, shape and size, the highest,
cutting through the clouds. The structures feel surreal, unusual. Getting closer, its vivid colours start showing through. Reds, yellows,
purples, greens. Mostly primary colours. Each building with its own unique colour and design. The circular, dome like houses start to create
more detail. Each with their own circular window at the top, pointing directly towards the sun. The locals worship the sun. They worship its
vividness and its colour. They study it, paint it, write about it. They one day wish they could reach it, touch it, feel its heat. The sun beams
the windows create cut through the buildings like a knife. Rosilia is bright. Its happy, and its welcoming. At least so far.
As you get close enough to enter Rosilia, its vibrancy enthrals you. Each house with its own unique patterns and colours. Each
structure with its own unique windows and doors, although they are all angulared and surreal. The structures bright and coloured. Rosilia
almost looks futuristic, with its curved buildings and vivid colour. These buildings are clearly hand made from coloured stone. The immense
creativity of Rosilia is fascinating. It feels like something from another world. Its roads are angular, sharp edges contrasting with the houses
along with fast curves. It almost seems as if the cars are going faster. Speeding away off into the distance. Its streets are paved with
beautiful cream stone, the electricity poles are at a slight angle, and almost look broken and old. The locals hardly use these poles anymore.
They of course get all their energy from the sun. They have solar panels everywhere. They line the streets, casting reflections and sun
beams across the walls and the buildings. The reflections almost overwhelming. The walls adorned with street art, and big billboards of text
stretch across the structures. Plant life is prominent. The trees and plants almost geometric shapes, hand carved, and perfectly maintained.
Further within, you come across the church. It has many circular magnifiers pointing towards the sun. Its sun symbol at the dead
centre of the building, above the grand entrance. Its walls stone with a vivid blue. The windows circular and grand. Its angular yet curved
shape feels different from the rest of the buildings. It is said that this church is the heart of the city, with many gathering every day to watch
the sun rise and the sun set. Inside is magnificent, with massive stain glass windows, and sun medallions hanging from string. The seating is
grand, lined with gold edges. The floor, yellow marble, with the sunrays bouncing off onto the walls. Ancient artwork graces the walls,
windows and pillars. Telling stories of life before the sun, life before religion, and how Rosilia come to be.

Walking through the centre of Rosilia, you come across markets, street performers, artists studying the sun. The stone ground, with a
decorative sun and a sundial in the centre. The markets selling sunlight pendants, clothing and artwork. Joyful, welcoming looking people
running the market stalls wearing blues, street performers also, with a few wearing orange, and the rest wearing oranges and yellows. It
becomes apparent that not everyone within Rosilia is equal. The rich wearing vivid yellows and golds, the middle class wearing dark oranges
and the lower class wearing blues and greys. This then translates into their homes. Only the wealthiest of Rosilia can afford the brightest
yellow houses.
Just a minutes walk from the centre of Rosilia, you come across some of the main attractions. The ancient ruins that are just
integrated into modern Rosilia, the locals worshipping them, they represent the foundations and the beginning of Rosilia, and how previous
civilisations perished. Along with the art galleries, full of artwork of the sun, surreal interpretations of life after the sun and before it came to
exist. The buildings modern and covered with glass. Trees begin to appear. Beautiful, magnificent trees, almost seeming like they rise for
miles. Palm trees also grace Rosilia, along with flowers with colour combinations never seen before. Just on the other side of the centre, is
the housing district of Rosilia. Rows and rows of houses, of all colours and designs, apart from yellow, this district is for the lower and middle
class. Walking through, you can just see inside these houses. The tables and chairs circular and smooth. Sun roofs with sun rays lighting the
rooms.
Behind this is where the sun does not reach. The tall buildings block off the sun here. Its dark and gloomy. Its where the locals dump
all their rubbish away. Broken electricity poles, smashed solar panels, snapped tables and chairs. It is very much a contrast to the Rosilia you
previously encounter. There are a few houses here, but they look abandoned, old and forgotten. This is where the rebellion occurs. There are
few rules within Rosilia, but here is where they get pushed to the limit. Minority groups spend most of their time here, they rebel against the
sun, and do not fit in with the other locals.
When it is time for the solar eclipse to fall upon Rosilia, all life seems to disappear. It becomes silent as families retreat to their houses
and stay until it is over. The flowers wilt and the leaves fall from the trees. Rosilia loses its vibrancy, it feels lonely on the streets. Apart from
the rebellious. They love the dark, and want to abolish all religion towards the sun. It brings them no joy, no fulfilment. They live better
without it. As soon as the sun re appears so do the locals. The clean-up process is vast, sweeping leaves, fixing broken windows, clearing
rubbish from the streets. The plants begin to have life again, and the leaves grow back within hours.
Rosilia is truly a place never thought of before. Its a magical escape from reality, during the peak hours of the sun offering many
opportunities and gifts to any who live or may enter. As soon as you start walking through the streets, you feel a strong sense of happiness
and glee, it radiates from everyone that walks past you. Yet at night, you can feel the rebellious watching you.

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Plant and Tree Life Within Rosilia

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