André Andrade – Poster World

Poster World is a design research project in collaboration with the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich. Through the museum’s archives of posters, one of the most extensive and important in the world, the project offers a new way of engaging the public with digitised heritage. It materialises in an interactive installation and offers automated associations of posters by combining metadata with artificial intelligence. Key visual features are isolated and graphically illustrated to make the associations explicit. The project opens perspectives on how to represent digitised heritage and how to engage the public.

In collaboration with: Computer Vision Laboratory (CVLab, EPFL), Digital Humanities Laboratory (DHLAB, EPFL)

Diploma project (2022) by André Andrade

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