This is my favourite Rodchenko design, 'Battleship Potemkin' 1925 an advertising poster for Sergei Eisenstein's film The Battleship Potemkin.
It is a very clever design, with the way he has used the two circles to create the feeling of binoculars, which allows the viewer to feel like they are watching the mutiny unfold on the ship and draws you into the poster. The contrasting styles of the flat/block colours of the background and the detailed images work really well together, breaking the poster up and creating the two focus points. The layout of the type is very considered and balences the poster well, having them centre aligned follows the design of the images and again draws you into the poster.
Although, I may be slightly biased as this is my favourite film! I also find it quite interesting that Rodchenko's innovations in lighting in his photography inspired Eisenstein and he in turn designed a poster for him.
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