Abstract:
This research has two objectives (1) to establish guidelines for designing post-modern printing graphic utilizing principles of post-modern architectural design and to investigate the elements of graphic design which can be applied effectively in designing post modern printing graphics. The process involves a collection of graphic works from several sources which are well accepted to be post modern style among the designers. These graphic works, then used to construct a set of questionnaire. From these questionnaires, the answer were obtained from a group of five professional graphic designers to ascertain that (1) which principles of design are common between post modern graphic and architectural designs; and (2) which elements of design with regard to shapes and colours are common between the two. The results of this research may be concluded that (I) there are four common principles of design in post-modern graphic and architectural designs: (1) Variety, (2) Retro, (3) Complexity and contradiction, and (4) Form and space; (II) with regard to shape as an element of design: (1) Geometric shape, organic shape, and hand-drawn shape are the most popular, (III) Colour as an element of design: a group of black, red, yellow and another group of orange, light yellow and light orange are the most popular accordingly. From these findings, the guidelines for effectively designing post-modern printing graphics were established and demonstrated