Fourth Grade Goes Graphic

image courtesy of the GR Press.

Fourth Grade art students studied the art of Stephen Frykholm while creating these “Summer Advertisement” posters.

Steve Frykholm has been Herman Miller’s in-house graphic designer for almost 40 years . From his first year with the furniture company, through 1989, he produced a silk screened poster each year for the company’s summer picnic—20 in all.

Seven of those posters are in the permanent collection of the MOMA.

Fourth graders were given the challenge of creating a poster that advertised their Summer memories without using words.

The requirements were to emphasize simple lines, flat colors and a “zoomed-in” focal point, just as Frykholm uses in his graphic design.

Students used viewfinders to create the same up-close viewpoint in their work.

Here are a few of the fourth grade Summer posters inspired by Frykholm:

Summer Memories...

How is it already time to go back to school? Summer flew by so fast! Well, in art class, we are hanging on to Summer for just a little longer.

Fourth graders have been remembering all of the fun picnics and BBQ they had this Summer while looking at Stephen Frykholm's graphic design posters for the Herman Miller Summer Picnic series. They are learning about how to communicate messages without using words-Not an easy thing to do!

Paul Cezanne and Henri Matisse represented their Summer memories in very different ways:

"Farm in Normandy Summer" by Paul Cezanne

"Swimming Pool" by Henri Matisse

Third graders are drawing pictures of their Summer memories and framing them in a cool pair of shades. A very cute idea I found at That Artist Woman.

I can't wait to see their final designs.
They are having so much fun!