Affiches-Manifestes de la Scam

Catherine Zask’s enthusiasm targets the materiality of writing, the inner structure of written language.

—Felix Studinka, from the foreword to Poster Collection: Catherine Zask

French graphic designer Catherine Zask inherited her love of Berthold Block from her teacher Roman Cieślewicz, with whom she studied at l’Ecole supérieure d’arts graphiques (ESAG). In 1996–97, the Sociéte des auteurs multimédia (SCAM) commissioned Zask to design a series of affiches-manifestes (poster manifestos) to promote a series of talks about a then-new French law that imposed restrictions on public broadcasting. “I used the powerful Block to create friction between the letters,” she wrote. “The series proceeds from yellow to red, like someone growing flushed with anger.”

View the entire collection of posters on her site.