To along with Darren Aronofsky's new film, Black Swan, are a series of beautiful illustrated posters by La Boca.
You can read a full review and analysis of them by Paul Owen of The Guardian that fully illustrates the influences and strengths of the posters.
The fourth poster reminds me of Bob Staake's cover for the New Yorker regarding the BP oil spill. And I can't help but think of geometric Russian Communist posters like this by Alexandr Rodchenko.
In terms of typography, as Owen points out, there is a strong sense of old ballet adverts. But I also think that that style of typography is all around us at the moment. For example, Tilda Swinton's I Am Love.
As I have said before about certain things I post, I love a stripped back minimal poster in todays madness of poster here and there and advertisements left right and centre. To me this stands out miles with the limited colour and overall dark tone of the posters. And as Nina battles the Black Swan within her, the White Swan that she is is being overwhelmed and dominated as shown in the posters. The Black Swan is a strong and forboding presence in the posters and in the film and that is all I will say here about the film.
My favourite poster out the Black Swan ones is the 2nd one by far! Love it.
ReplyDeleteI saw this on the television today, and I'm not sure why I thought you'd like it, but I did - and here it is (don't get too excited)
It's called a swizzle stick and it's used to get rid of champagne bubbles and prep olives etc.
Looks like this....
http://www.antiques-atlas.com/dealer-stock-images/acsilver/as128a267b.jpg
expands into this....
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/679632/2/istockphoto_679632-silver-swizzle-stick.jpg
and has a little blade on the other end to slice your olives. It's the small things that make the difference!
I've never seen one before and it's a pretty old design now. I can't decide if I think they're nice and precious, or really naff.