Details
The image
A field of dots and lines suggesting a map of the sky, with lettering set in a modern face and the composition left open at the edges. The image is systematic rather than decorative: repetition, spacing and proportion do the work and colour is used to separate groups rather than to please.
Where it comes from
Exhibition graphics of the post-war decades often borrowed a diagram as their central image: a network, a grid, a set of coordinates. The habit came from a belief that a visual argument could be made with structure alone, the same belief that produced systems-based design in printing, signage and information graphics.
On the wall
It suits a study, an office or a modern living room, where a diagram reads as structure rather than as decoration. Because the composition is even and open, it tolerates large sizes and holds a long wall. In a group it should be the most ordered piece.
In company
The Modern collection keeps the same economy of means.Avoid hanging it beside dense illustration, the diagram needs silence to be read as a system. The ground is left pale so that the cut shapes keep the brightness of painted paper.
