SUMMARY
The quality and importance of graphic design developed in Germany in the first half of the XXth Century, as well as its contribution to the international graphic scene, is beyond all doubt. The Second World War and the division of Germany after the signature of the Capitulation signature created a clear breach in its evolution. The aim of this research is to determine the development of visual language –alongside the different elements of graphic design– in the German Democratic Republic, in relationship with the evolution experimented in the previous years and with the existing social and political system.
To achieve it, after a qualitative analysis based on the available literature, we proceeded to analyze the visual language of a sample of 525 posters developed along the GRD history. In order to carry out a methodical research, we designed a self system to examine the visual language taking as a starting point the most relevant existent analysis systems. At the same time we explore the typography designed and produced inside the VEB Typoart, the only enterprise dedicated to the development of types. 
The obtained dates make it possible to stabilize an evolution line and the periods of design and its relationship with the evolution of the design before 1945 as well as with the most relevant social and political events.