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News: 60'000 computer generated posters in Breda, The Netherlands
received from Jean-Benoit Levy

From the website lust.nl/posterwall
A Poster Wall for the 21 st Century
On the occasion of the opening of the new Graphic Design Museum in Breda (NL) the posterwall for the 21st century was launched, both online and as an installation in the museum itself. In the museum 600 unique posters are automatically generated daily using content gathered from various internet sources. Online, one new poster is generated every five minutes. Constantly new and updated, the posters contain content covering a range of topics such as cultural events, news, weather, etc. In the museum it's placed at the end of the overview exhibition '100 Years of Graphic Design in the Netherlands'. It attempts to provide insight into the direction graphic design might go in the future while posing the question: 'Do we still need graphic designers?'


Below is a screenprint of todays page, the program has been running for about 200 days with 300 different posters each day:



To check whether they are really different, I downloaded a days crop of 300 poster:


Amazing! Amazing implications!


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