Stylogeny combining Egyptian Painted Film Poster × Stenberg Brothers Constructivist Film Poster

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Egyptian Painted Film Poster × Stenberg Brothers Constructivist Film Poster

Painted star portraits against assembled stills: two ways to sell a film on a lithographed sheet.

From the research on Stenberg Brothers Constructivist Film Poster

Mix them and make something Egyptian Painted Film Poster Stenberg Brothers Constructivist Film Poster

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A sample layout drawn from the recipe: shapes from Stenberg Brothers Constructivist Film Poster, their arrangement from Stenberg Brothers Constructivist Film Poster, the finish from Egyptian Painted Film Poster. Not a real work, and not an image of either style.

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What each style brings

Each part of the design comes from the style with the stronger say in it, and each style gives at least two.

Egyptian Painted Film Poster Stenberg Brothers Constructivist Film Poster

Type from Egyptian Painted Film Poster
Colour from Egyptian Painted Film Poster
Form from Stenberg Brothers Constructivist Film Poster
Composition from Stenberg Brothers Constructivist Film Poster
Surface from Egyptian Painted Film Poster

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The type

Open fonts standing in for each style’s own type, which is often hand-drawn or commercial.

Display · Egyptian Painted Film Poster

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Rakkas, standing in for Hand-painted Arabic calligraphic title logotypes

Text · Stenberg Brothers Constructivist Film Poster

A commercial-cinema subvariant of constructivism: the film posters that Vladimir and Georgii Stenberg made in Moscow from 1924 until Georgii's death in 1933. Where parent constructivism served agitprop and book design, these sheets sold films, using stills and drawn figures pushed through distorted perspective, extreme cropping, exaggerated scale and tilted lettering, so the poster conveys the motion of the screen in bold colour.

Jost; Stenberg Brothers Constructivist Film Poster used Hand-drawn, tilted Cyrillic title lettering integrated with the image and Constructed block capitals in the Soviet avant-garde manner

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The colours

The ground and leading colours come from Egyptian Painted Film Poster, with a counter-accent from Stenberg Brothers Constructivist Film Poster. The ink reads on the ground at 4.5:1 or more.

Egyptian Painted Film Poster Stenberg Brothers Constructivist Film Poster

  • #f3ead5 ground · 36%
  • #161616 ink · 14%
  • #f2c230 accent · 18%
  • #d1262f accent · 14%
  • #1f5fa8 accent · 10%
  • #2f8f4e accent · 8%

As CSS

:root {
  --ground: #f3ead5;
  --ink: #161616;
  --accent-1: #f2c230;
  --accent-2: #d1262f;
  --accent-3: #1f5fa8;
  --accent-4: #2f8f4e;
  --font-display: "Rakkas", cursive;
  --font-text: "Jost", sans-serif;
}

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The two styles

A vintage-style painted poster combines large portraits of a dark-haired woman and a mustached man in a white turban with Egyptian ruins, torch-bearing men, and sailboats on a river at sunset. Red Arabic lettering spans the top, while a woman in a flowing red dress crouches beside a carved stone wall below. 1932–1996 · Middle East & North Africa Egyptian Painted Film Poster The painted publicity of Egyptian cinema from the early talkies to the 1990s, designed outside the studios by artist-printers such as Hassan Mazhar Gassour and printed as colour lithographs in Cairo. Star portraits copied from stills float as cut-out heads above a melodramatic scene. The Arabic title is painted as a one-off calligraphic logotype whose swelling, interlocked strokes can act out the film's theme. 1924–1933 · Eastern Europe Stenberg Brothers Constructivist Film Poster A commercial-cinema subvariant of constructivism: the film posters that Vladimir and Georgii Stenberg made in Moscow from 1924 until Georgii's death in 1933. Where parent constructivism served agitprop and book design, these sheets sold films, using stills and drawn figures pushed through distorted perspective, extreme cropping, exaggerated scale and tilted lettering, so the poster conveys the motion of the screen in bold colour.

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