Free Constructivist Fonts

Constructivist Cyrillic - Download


Constructivist Line - Download


Constructivist Solid - Download


Constructivist Square - Download


Constructivist Regular - Download


P22 Constructivist Block - Download


P22 Constructivist Cyrillic - Download


P22 Constructivist Line - Download

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Basic Constructivism Color Scheme

Here is the basic Constructivism/Russian Art Poster color scheme pallete. You can download the image, and basicly get the colors by eyedropper tool in Photoshop, Illustrator etc... Do not forget that gray areas represent empty spaces.


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El Lissitzky's Proun Room

In 1923, El Lissitzky's 'Proun Room', is a chamber articulated with Proun motifs in two and three dimensions, abstract but possibly symbolical; the original was made for a major exhibition in Berlin, a reconstruction is in the Stedelijk-Van-Abbemuseum, in Eindhoven (Netherlands).

(Proun Room by El Lissitzky)

Trained as an engineer and architect, Lissitzky was one of the first modern artists to experiment with the viewer as an integral part of a work of art. For the Great Berlin Art Exhibition in 1923 Lissitzky translated his geometric Proun compositions into a room-size environment. He intended the wall-size abstractions to engulf visitors and allow them to feel as if they were floating in space. 

“The image is not a painting, but a structure around which we must circle, looking at it from all sides, peering down from above, investigating from below.”

He was also an inventive exhibition designer who placed frames at irregular heights or kitty-corner on the wall, turned works upside down, and shunned traditional backdrops. Contemporary exhibitions of Lissitzky’s work rarely consult his ideas on exhibition design. Hideyo Okamura’s design for WCMA attempts to redress this lapse through an installation that captures the spirit of Lissitzky’s writings and teachings on exhibition design.


El Lissitzky - Proun Room


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Russian Avant-Garde: Rodchenko & Shukhov


Art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon travels through time to unlock the world of Russian art. Andrew Graham-Dixon looks at examples of the work of Alexander Rodchenko. But best of all is a ride up the Shukhov radio tower, an amazing construction built by the engineer Vladimir Shukhov between 1919 and 1922.

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Constructivist CD Artwork

The following CD artwork and booklet is from an Australian band 'Angelspit', from their album called 'Larva Pupa Tank Coffin'.

Angelspit is a two-piece industrial rock band based in Sydney, Australia. Their subversive visuals are equally confronting- as their unique brand of vicious fashion and hellish aesthetics influence a new wave of cyber punk music, fashion and art.





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Creating a Constructivist Propoganda Poster

In the following tutorial David Oei and Carolyn Sullivan show us how they created their entry for the first round of the Crestock Photoshop Contest 2008 - a poster inspired by the Russian Constructivist movement.
Immediately after we read the briefing for the project Carolyn and myself both thought of the Russian Constructivist movement as our creative jumping off point.  
We refreshed ourselves with artists/designers Rodchenko and Lissitzky's work but wanted to add some contemporary elements, such some retro Lichtenstein feel. We wanted to end up with a Constructivist inspired poster with sharp visual movement and an easy-to-understand message.
We started with the main elements of the poster, side-by-side pictures of Obama and McCain. To get a neo/retro Lichtenstein style we processed the images with a combination of filters and image adjustments.

 1. Using the pen tool, we outlined and erased background .

2. We wanted a higher contrast image so we posterized the image with the Poster Edges filter with minimal edge intensity.

3. To achieve the Lichetenstein-like style we used the Halftone Pattern Filter with high contrast and the smallest dot pattern available.


4. Next we used Hue and Saturation to colorize the image.


5. We repeated these steps with the McCain images; outline, posterize, halftone and color.


6. We processed the American Flag and Tank with the same methods. We then inverted the selection.

7. The crowd image was easy to extract from the provided art. We simply used the magic wand tool to select the first row of people.

8. We combined all of the images that we had processed into our Constructivist design layout.

9. We added the text.


10. We added a hand-made inner shadow and a stock image background design to give it a more gritty feel and also to add some depth to the poster. We multiplied each image on to the top of all of the layers.

The Final Result:


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