Friend or Foe poster, Tomoko Miho

Friend or Foe poster for the National Air and Space Museum, 1976


These is the most famous poster of a series for the Nation Air and Space Museum.
This poster is achievement of both Jim Miho and Tomoko Miho when they are leaders of Miho Inc., The “Friend? Or Foe” poster showed a huge Air Force symbol in the foreground which appeared in World War II (WWII). At the top of poster, these are many styles of fighter planes in WWII. It poster had taken a big question for a long time, air planes are “Friend? Or Foe”, to bring people or to become aircraft .Furthermore, she arranged the planes in short columns at the bottom with continuance style form up to down, nothing a low horizon line leads to one must cut down. The balance is used to deliver the picture with two part by a top of the star. Tomoko use good principle design with continuance style for her picture. In the center of her picture, the audience see the red sun in white star and the star in a blue big circle. The dominance is the position between big logo ins the center and the columms of planes and the words “Friend??” “Or Foe?”


For Tomoko , scale is defined as a question of contrast a relationships and a concern for detail .To make a picture seem majestic , there are short captions setting in small type not large ones . An huge entrance is created by a twelve-foot architectural sign creating by a glass and steel tower . invisible grid congers authority to an uncluttered layout