Compose two styles
Rather than blending two styles into a middle, this assigns them roles: one carries the structure, the other appears as an accent. Where the two fight, it says so before you start.
How to divide the work
- Composition
- Follow Chicha Poster: Black ground packed with lettering, dates and venue gathered at the foot
- Type
- Set in Chicha Poster's manner (Letters drawn very heavy, outlined outward until they seem to glow), and let South Asian Truck Art's lettering (Slogans in calligraphic strokes, one line per band on doors and tailgate) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Chicha Poster's material (Fluorescent pink and green screened over black, the ground left showing); bring in exactly one thing from South Asian Truck Art (Mirror pieces and cut metal fixed over paint, chains hung to sound).
- Colour
- Build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 and admit one accent from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615.
Where they fight
These two are already listed as related, so the join should come easily.
Caution
- Chicha Poster Putting the fluorescents on white kills the glow, destroys the night legibility the style was designed around, and simply looks cheap.
- South Asian Truck Art Applying the pattern as evenly repeating wallpaper loses the framed compartments that carry meaning, and the owner's story stops being readable.
Image prompt
An original image that takes its structure from Chicha Poster (Style, 1980s–) and its accent from South Asian Truck Art (Style, 1940s–). Structural cues: Fluorescent color on black; Heavy hand-drawn letters; Layered silkscreen; Maximum night visibility. Accent cues, used sparingly: All-over floral patterning; Panels of portraits and landscapes; Relief of mirrors, metal and chains; Calligraphy and slogans. Composition: Black ground packed with lettering, dates and venue gathered at the foot. Type and lettering: Letters drawn very heavy, outlined outward until they seem to glow. Let one material quality come from the second style: Mirror pieces and cut metal fixed over paint, chains hung to sound. Mood: Exhilaration, Rebellion, Play, Intimacy. Color: build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 with a single accent drawn from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615. Constraints: do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work. Produce an original composition in the general period languages described above.
Related entries
- Chicha Poster 1980s– / Style / Regional Graphics
Lima's cumbia shows produced a fluorescent poster style. Hand-drawn letters in day-glo pink and green on black shout loudly enough to be read from a passing night bus, and the look is now reclaimed as the aesthetic of Andean migrants to the city.
- South Asian Truck Art 1940s– / Style / Signage and Display
Painted decoration covers every surface of the trucks of Pakistan and India. Floral phool patti, portraits of heroes and saints, and relief work in mirrors and chains turn a working vehicle into a rolling palace of pride.
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