Cultural Revolution
A visual inquiry into the graphic language of China's Cultural Revolution — propaganda posters, iconographic hierarchies, and the aesthetics of mass mobilization.
Cover — banner composition, red and black ink on newsprint
Red Guard — geometric uniformity and collective identity
Four Olds — pictographic erasure and the aesthetics of revision
Black Five — the grammar of political classification
Representative — the hero and the masses
A visual inquiry into the graphic language of China’s Cultural Revolution. Each poster is analyzed as a complete visual system: type hierarchy, color politics, symbolic compression, and the spatial grammar of mobilization. The question driving the work: what does it mean for a design language to be weaponized?