Regional Graphics
地域別グラフィック
Dictionary entry
- Polish Poster School 1950s–1980s / Style
Transforms film and theater promotion into a psychological image — painting, metaphor and drawn letters instead of explanation.
- Postwar Japanese Poster 1950s–1990s / Style
Photography, flat color, calligraphy and traditional motifs, recomposed differently by each designer.
- Czech Film Poster 1950s–1980s / Style
Turns film promotion into independent interpretation through collage, fantastical rendering and experimental letters.
- Grapus 1970–1991 / Style
The French collective born of May '68: hand-scrawled letters, splatters and graffiti over photographs brought festive roughness to posters for politics, theater and city halls — resistance to polish made into a style.
- Chinese Propaganda Poster 1949–1980s / Style
The mass-distributed persuasion pictures of the PRC from founding through the Cultural Revolution: the nianhua folk tradition fused with Soviet socialist realism into red suns, flushed cheeks and arms pointing to the future.
- Hand-Painted Bollywood Poster 1930s–1990s / Style
Mumbai's poster workshops painted film advertising in oil on giant canvases: saturated color, montages of scenes, exaggerated star faces — ruling India's streets for half a century until digital printing.
- Ghanaian Movie Poster 1980s–2000s / Style
Ghana's hand-painted movie posters on flour-sack canvas, made for mobile cinema: unconstrained imagination reinterpreting Hollywood with exaggeration and local horror into a painting style like no other.
- Chicha Poster 1980s– / Style
Lima's fluorescent poster style born of cumbia shows: hand-cut letters in day-glo pink and green on black, loud enough to read from a night bus — now reclaimed as the aesthetics of Andean urban migration.
- Iranian Poster 1960s– / Style
The Iranian graphic culture Morteza Momayez opened: the line of Persian calligraphy fused with modernist composition, growing a poster tradition that speaks in poetic metaphor across revolution and war.
- Soviet Film Poster 1924–1932 / Style
The revolutionary-era film posters the Stenberg brothers built in lithography: photomontage-like giant faces, careening letters and violently exaggerated perspective translating cinematic motion onto a sheet of paper.
- Angura Poster 1965–1975 / Style
Japan's underground theater posters by Yokoo and his peers: ukiyo-e, kitsch and psychedelia colliding in deliberate excess — a revolt against modernism that the world soon discovered.
- East German Design 1949–1990 / Style
The GDR's everyday design under a planned economy: scarcity-bred plastic simplicity, artless state advertising and the lyricism of DEFA film posters — a vanished state's style now reappraised.
- Turkish Republican Poster 1920s–1950s / Style
The early republic's advertising style built almost single-handedly by İhap Hulusi: flat figures, clean color fields and Latin-script lettering fusing graphics with the state's modernization.