It isn't often that I bump into a bit of copy, a headline or a graphic that rings my bell. But this one has. It's for the Criterion re-release of a Charlie Chaplin masterpiece, "The Great Dictator."
In it, Chaplin plays both a poor Jewish barber and the Tomanian dictator, Adenoid Hynkel.
So much graphic design, like so much of everything else, is meaningless and superfluous. Mere decoration.
This piece, in addition to being artful and lovely, is intelligent and--heaven forfend--funny.
