Teaching children thinking 1970

This poster for a lecture at MIT, crafted by Dietmar Winkler, presents a design challenge: the fusion of text and image into one powerful symbol. Look at the typography of the words, in which fragments are cut away and the remaining characters are set against a uniform plane. The deconstructed letters are not merely aesthetic; they reflect a deeper cultural anxiety. I'm reminded of the broken statues of antiquity, unearthed and reinterpreted across centuries as symbols of fragmented knowledge. The orange letters, standing out against the background, become beacons of insight and clarity. This recalls the way a torch is passed from one generation to the next, its flame flickering yet enduring. This is how society moves—advancing, retreating, then charging forward once more, in a cyclical motion, an attempt to decode the eternal mystery of knowledge and comprehension.