Stylogeny combining Lambe-Lambe Posters × Latin American Feminist Protest Graphics

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Lambe-Lambe Posters × Latin American Feminist Protest Graphics

A later Argentine protest-graphics movement; compare how a campaign gets a unified look by shared symbol versus by serial pasting of varied images.

From the research on Lambe-Lambe Posters (Brazilian Paste-Up Street Posters)

Mix them and make something Lambe-Lambe Posters Latin American Feminist Protest Graphics

WAKELambe-Lambe Posters × Latin American
A sample layout drawn from the recipe: shapes from Latin American Feminist Protest Graphics, their arrangement from Lambe-Lambe Posters, the finish from Lambe-Lambe Posters. 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.

Lambe-Lambe Posters (Brazilian Paste-Up Street Posters) Latin American Feminist Protest Graphics (Ni Una Menos and the Green Wave)

Type from Latin American Feminist Protest Graphics
Colour from Latin American Feminist Protest Graphics
Form from Latin American Feminist Protest Graphics
Composition from Lambe-Lambe Posters
Surface from Lambe-Lambe Posters

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The type

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

Display · Latin American Feminist Protest Graphics

Wake

Permanent Marker, standing in for The Campaign's white print on the green scarf: its name in condensed bold sans-serif above a white kerchief emblem, with the slogan in bold, mostly lowercase sans-serif set round the emblem in a circle; home-made scarves cut from green cloth carry slogans in permanent marker

Text · Lambe-Lambe Posters

Paper posters and stickers in sheets of varying sizes, pasted with hand-made glue onto walls, poles and bins in densely urbanised Brazilian cities. Derived from the language of graffiti, lambes combine illustration, collage and photography, and repeat mass-reproduced images in series. Unlike a commercial cartaz they carry a critical, questioning message about social issues.

Oswald; Lambe-Lambe Posters used Hand-drawn lettering, where present and Whatever display lettering the artist supplies; no typeface is established for the form

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The colours

The ground and leading colours come from Latin American Feminist Protest Graphics, with a counter-accent from Lambe-Lambe Posters. The ink reads on the ground at 4.5:1 or more.

Lambe-Lambe Posters (Brazilian Paste-Up Street Posters) Latin American Feminist Protest Graphics (Ni Una Menos and the Green Wave)

  • #ffffff ground · 36%
  • #141414 ink · 14%
  • #00964b accent · 18%
  • #e8e1d0 accent · 14%
  • #e46fae accent · 10%
  • #8c8a82 accent · 8%

As CSS

:root {
  --ground: #ffffff;
  --ink: #141414;
  --accent-1: #00964b;
  --accent-2: #e8e1d0;
  --accent-3: #e46fae;
  --accent-4: #8c8a82;
  --font-display: "Permanent Marker", cursive;
  --font-text: "Oswald", sans-serif;
}

Use it with care

Lambe-Lambe Posters (Brazilian Paste-Up Street Posters): Lambe-lambe here means the critical street-poster practice, not the commercial cartaz (advertising) or circus posters, which are a separate lineage. Wikipedia also links Latin American posters of the 1960s to late 1980s to protest against military regimes, including in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo; this entry covers the contemporary urban scene documented by 2015-2016 studies, and its start date of 2010 is an approximation, not a sourced origin. Lambes are political and critical speech, often about social inequality; do not borrow the look as a decorative or commercial 'edgy' skin. Visual traits beyond illustration, collage, photography, serial repetition and wall pasting (lettering, photocopy, stencil, ink count) are not established by the sources read, so they are held at low weight; the palette is a neutral paper-and-ink approximation, not sampled from posters. The Fortaleza 2016 and ANPAP 2017 papers could not be verified and are not relied on. Pixação is a separate Brazilian practice with its own entry. The Luis Alvaz sticker is the only named maker found; the exemplars are otherwise scholarship, not posters.

Latin American Feminist Protest Graphics (Ni Una Menos and the Green Wave): This is the living language of a movement against femicide and for abortion rights whose subjects are real women, many murdered or disappeared, and whose families raised the antimonumentas and wrote the names on them: do not reuse victims' names, photographs, pink crosses or the antimonumentas as decoration, merchandise or a backdrop for a brand. The green scarf is the emblem of the Campaña Nacional por el Derecho al Aborto Legal, Seguro y Gratuito and Ni Una Menos is a collective; do not put their emblem, slogan or name on your own products, fundraising or advertising, or dress a company's message in green and violet to borrow the movements' credibility. The scarf is still contested: it has been banned in some schools, wearing it can bring backlash, it is answered by the anti-abortion pañuelo celeste, and Argentina's legal-abortion law of 2020 has faced calls for repeal, so do not use green as a neutral 'hope' colour where it will be read as a political position. Never present a generated image as documentation of a real protest.

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The two styles

A distressed black, gray, and cream collage combines a large woman's face tilted upward, repeated smaller portraits, apartment buildings, and leafy branches. Bold hand-painted lettering at the upper right reads “MAIS RUA.” 2010–present · Latin America & Caribbean Lambe-Lambe Posters (Brazilian Paste-Up Street Posters) Paper posters and stickers in sheets of varying sizes, pasted with hand-made glue onto walls, poles and bins in densely urbanised Brazilian cities. Derived from the language of graffiti, lambes combine illustration, collage and photography, and repeat mass-reproduced images in series. Unlike a commercial cartaz they carry a critical, questioning message about social issues. Three stylized women look upward against a purple background, wearing green neckerchiefs with white flower emblems. Large rough-edged pink lettering reading “LIBRES” fills the top, surrounded by pink radiating strokes. 2015–present · Latin America & Caribbean Latin American Feminist Protest Graphics (Ni Una Menos and the Green Wave) The graphics of Latin America's feminist tide, a mass movement since Ni Una Menos (Buenos Aires, 3 June 2015) and the 2018 'marea verde' for legal abortion, though its scarf dates from 2003. Its identity is an object and a colour: a green triangle of cloth printed in white with the Campaign's emblem and slogan, tied to necks, wrists and bags until a crowd turns green. Around it: slogans hand-lettered on cardboard and walls, violet for feminism, linocut posters, and in Mexico purple antimonumentas, Venus signs with a raised fist lettered with demands and the names of murdered women.

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