This is a photograph I snapped while watching my son play a video game earlier this afternoon. It is from a multi-player map in the game Battlefield 1. The snapshot of a TV screen does not do the artwork justice, the graphics in the game are fantastic. It is quite unbelievable how video games have gone from a 8-bit technology a little over twenty years ago to today. I would label this image in the style of Art Nouveau. Although the size of the poster seems a little small for the lithograph poster size of the time, it has a few distinguishing characteristics. I immediately thought of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec when I caught a glimpse of this poster. It got me thinking about the self-assured happy women that were idealized in the Art Nouveau lithographs. The simplified art and the appearance of hand written type gives a few more clues about this style. The last clue is the black or dark outlines that are filled in with flat colors and abstract shapes.
This is a advertising print. It was made to promote bands in San Francisco. I remembered a friend having a poster similar to this one back in high school. We used to look at it under a black light. I couldn't find the actual poster, but this is real close. With the poster being hand-drawn, I find the quality of the artwork very high quality. It is one from the psychedelic era that I don't mind. Being from the psychedelic style the typography is more of a hand-drawn style. I was mainly drawn to it through memories of this style in high school. It is very fun, playful, loud, and very trendy.
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