Help with Constructivist/Propaganda Style??

Hello!

I'm a novice here, but I was curious to find out how to go about creating an image in this style:
< http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g309/daisycakesny/11630873 8_lg.jpg>

I've tried to find that particular issue, but without much luck (nothing on Ebay nor is it available as a back-issue purchase). Except for a digital download, but nothing in it's contents pages seem to indicate a tutorial on how to achieve this.
I've also searched for tutorials on the internet, under both Photoshop and Illustrator (as I'm not sure which one would be best to use for this), and I have googled every term and combination of terms I can think of to find a tutorial on the constructivist/soviet/propaganda style design. Maybe I'm searching all wrong?

Thank you sooooo much in advance!

--Patra

You may start here:

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivism_%28art%29> <http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Lissitzky>

The links are showing results - how to produce
the graphics is probably a different story.

Furtheron, I would google for 'Neville Brody'.

Best regards -Gernot Hoffmann

There won't (probably) be tutorial on creating that image. But every component in it can be done in Photoshop (although I would have done it in Illustrator, with graphics from Photoshop. But that is just because I am lazy and prefer not to wrestle PS into doing things that AI does easier).

I see a great deal of high contrast and silhouetted images ... there will be tutorials on how to do that. Type on an angle, easy. Biggest trick will be to get a font in the correct style, and then manipulating the characters to get the Soviet look ... easy in AI, not so much in Photoshop.

The end result is probably a tri-tone, although you could build it in CMYK.

When you are trying to duplicate a style, don't look for a tutorial on the style, but try to determine what components make that style look like it does, and search for tutorials on that.

If you get a tutorial on making a birdhouse, all you learn to do is to make that birdhouse. Get tutorials on how to cut wood, how to do joinery, and how to finish a wood piece, etc., and you can make (almost) anything out of wood.

The old "give-a-fish vs. teach-to-fish" game, ehhh Don?

:)

Are Russian-Cyrillic type fonts easy to get a hold off?

Many standard fonts include Cyrillic. Certainly this is true of virtually all commercial OpenType fonts, as well as most commercial TrueType and Type 1 fonts that aren't old, old, old. All of the standard Windows 98/XP fonts include Cyrillic, for example.

Thank you for taking the time out to help! :) I really appreciate it! Now, I at least have a starting point!
Again, Thanks!!

--Patra :)