Stylogeny combining Psychedelic Poster × Surrealist Graphics

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Psychedelic Poster × Surrealist Graphics

Psychedelic posters revived Surrealist dream imagery; combine them for hallucinatory figurative work with melting forms.

From the research on Surrealist Graphics

Mix them and make something Psychedelic Poster Surrealist Graphics

RiotPsychedelic Poster × Surrealist Graphics
A sample layout drawn from the recipe: shapes from Surrealist Graphics, their arrangement from Psychedelic Poster, the finish from Surrealist Graphics. 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.

Psychedelic Poster Surrealist Graphics

Type from Psychedelic Poster
Colour from Psychedelic Poster
Form from Surrealist Graphics
Composition from Psychedelic Poster
Surface from Surrealist Graphics

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The type

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

Display · Psychedelic Poster

Riot

Federant, standing in for Arnold Böcklin

Text · Surrealist Graphics

Launched by André Breton's 1924 manifesto, Surrealism sought the marvellous in dreams, chance and the unconscious. Its graphic legacy (uncanny collage from old engravings, solarised and cameraless photographs, impossible juxtapositions painted with illusionistic precision) passed through magazines like Minotaure into fashion, advertising and book design on both sides of the Atlantic.

Bodoni Moda; Surrealist Graphics used Artists' hand-lettered mastheads and Didone and Victorian display faces lifted from 19th-century catalogues

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The colours

The ground and leading colours come from Psychedelic Poster, with a counter-accent from Surrealist Graphics. The ink reads on the ground at 4.5:1 or more.

Psychedelic Poster Surrealist Graphics

  • #ffd200 ground · 36%
  • #2e3192 ink · 14%
  • #ff6a13 accent · 18%
  • #a24a2a accent · 14%
  • #e4007c accent · 10%
  • #d8b77a accent · 8%

As CSS

:root {
  --ground: #ffd200;
  --ink: #2e3192;
  --accent-1: #ff6a13;
  --accent-2: #a24a2a;
  --accent-3: #e4007c;
  --accent-4: #d8b77a;
  --font-display: "Federant", sans-serif;
  --font-text: "Bodoni Moda", serif;
}

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The two styles

A vividly coloured psychedelic illustration shows a giant mushroom with an eye beneath its cap, surrounded by smaller mushrooms, flowing rainbow bands, and stars. A sun and crescent moon with faces flank the central mushroom beneath large, wavy lettering reading “TRIPTIDE.” 1965–1973 · North America, Western Europe Psychedelic Poster The concert-poster language of the 1960s counterculture, born in San Francisco's Fillmore and Avalon ballrooms and echoed in London's underground press. Hand-drawn letters melt and swell to fill whole shapes, Art Nouveau and Vienna Secession curves are revived at hallucinatory intensity, and vibrating complementary or fluorescent colours make reading a slow, immersive act. A distressed, surreal collage combines a large woman's face with a curling seashell, stone staircases, ruined arches, and cliffside buildings above a blue sea. An orange fish floats in the foreground, a tiny person stands on the stairs, and a golden disc hangs among clouds beside the title “The Drift.” 1924–1960 · Western Europe, North America Surrealist Graphics Launched by André Breton's 1924 manifesto, Surrealism sought the marvellous in dreams, chance and the unconscious. Its graphic legacy (uncanny collage from old engravings, solarised and cameraless photographs, impossible juxtapositions painted with illusionistic precision) passed through magazines like Minotaure into fashion, advertising and book design on both sides of the Atlantic.

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