AfriCOBRA
アフリコブラ / 1968– / Style / Black Arts Movement
Visualizes Black communal affirmation and political consciousness through blazing color, rhythm, lettering and Africa-centered images.
At a glance
Visual cues
- Kool-Aid colors
- Rhythmic repetition
- Letters and figures
- Afrocentric imagery
Best used for
- Posters for Black community events and music where color and rhythm are the subject.
- Affirming words built into the image and printed to be carried and held up.
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Dictionary entry
- Type
- Bend the words along the figures so the slogan becomes structure, not caption.
- Composition
- Repeat one shape at even intervals so the eye keeps circling the surface.
- Material
- Set near fluorescent saturated colors side by side, holding print flatness.
- Caution
- Copying only the intensity of color while dropping the community's words and faces stylizes the look and loses the purpose, which was affirmation.
- Further study
- Jeff Donaldson / Wadsworth Jarrell / Barbara Jones-Hogu
Related entries
- Harlem Renaissance (ハーレム・ルネサンス)Same Black Arts Movement lineage.Compare AfriCOBRA and Harlem Renaissance
- Psychedelic (サイケデリック)Shared effects: Exhilaration / Rebellion.Compare AfriCOBRA and Psychedelic
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- https://indexstyle.org/styles/africobra
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- [AfriCOBRA — IndexStyle](https://indexstyle.org/styles/africobra)
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