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W.E. (2011).<\/em><\/p>\n Being someone who enjoys adopting and pastiching different art and design styles for different projects I naturally like to see other people doing the same. American illustrator and designer Akiko Stehrenberger<\/a> is very adept at using this approach for her film posters. Without knowing the identity of the person responsible you wouldn’t guess that they were all the work of the same person.<\/p>\n The Madonna and Polanski posters are the two most overt pastiches, being based respectively on the paintings of Tamara de Lempicka<\/a>, and the posters by Jan Lenica for Polanski’s Repulsion<\/em><\/a> and Cul-de-Sac<\/em><\/a>. Good as the poster for W.E.<\/em> is, it seems the studio preferred a more cliched “romantic” treatment<\/a> for their international sales.\u00a0Stehrenberger’s Mac desktop design for Burn After Reading<\/em> was dropped in favour of yet another Saul Bass pastiche<\/a>. (As a sidenote I’d suggest a moratorium on imitating Saul Bass for the time being; it’s getting boring.) The Lost Highway<\/em> design isn’t a poster but I added it here since it’s a surprising take on David Lynch’s noir piece. I like the way the dotted line can be taken either as road markings or a line signifying the division in the film between the separate storylines and the\u00a0separated characters.<\/p>\n Akiko Stehrenberger talked to Adrian Curry<\/a> earlier this year about her favourite film posters.<\/p>\n Burn After Reading (2008).<\/em><\/p>\n Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (2008).<\/em><\/p>\n Lost Highway (Spanish Blu-ray cover).<\/em><\/p>\n Previously on { feuilleton } W.E. (2011). Being someone who enjoys adopting and pastiching different art and design styles for different projects I naturally like to see other people doing the same. American illustrator and designer Akiko Stehrenberger is very adept at using this approach for her film posters. Without knowing the identity of the person responsible you wouldn’t guess … Continue reading “The poster art of Akiko Stehrenberger”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,4,7,48],"tags":[5355,5353,1320,265,1559,4055,461,2249,123,436,5354],"class_list":["post-14492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-design","category-film","category-illustrators","tag-adrian-curry","tag-akiko-stehrenberger","tag-bob-peak","tag-david-lynch","tag-dr-mabuse","tag-jan-lenica","tag-lucifer","tag-roman-polanski","tag-salome","tag-saul-bass","tag-tamara-de-lempicka"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-3LK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"stehrenberger2.jpg\"](\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/stehrenberger2.jpg\")
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