Tuesday, 20 October 2020

Estimulacion - Oliva 1968

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Raul Oliva's poster for the 1967 Swedish movie Stimulantia uses religious iconography but the film itself is a montage of eight Swedish ...
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Sunday, 18 October 2020

Podrido Hasta La Medula - Reboiro 1968

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Rotten to the Core is a 1965 British film about a crimimal gang's search for the Duke, a mystery figure who may be dead, and who may hav...
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Friday, 16 October 2020

Alondra - Raymundo 1968

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This poster by Raymundo García Parra for the Hungarian drama Skylark features the protagonist from the 1963 film, a young woman isolated at ...
Thursday, 15 October 2020

El Boxeador - Avila 1968

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The simplest of designs for the Polish film of 1967 Boxer by Gladys Acosta Avila features a boxing glove and an interesting font. the graphi...
Wednesday, 14 October 2020

La Ciudad Marcada - Oliva 1966

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This restrained design by Oliva for the 1962 Japanese movie Hiroshima Heartache (a film with many titles - the Spanish translation is Scarre...
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Tuesday, 13 October 2020

Destello de la Espada de Ichi - Bachs 1969

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The late 60s is the era when Cuban posters were at their most colourful, wild and inventive. This Bachs poster for the 1964 Japanese film Za...

Accidente - Oliva 1969

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Oliva's fantastic psychedelic design for the British film Accident puts the protagonist, played by Dirk Bogarde, at the centre of the po...
Saturday, 10 March 2018

Exposicion de la Habana '68

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This poster from the cultural agency Casa de las Americas was issued to promote the 1968 Exposicion, an exhibition of contemporary art. The...
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Sunday, 30 August 2015

Yo Voy Estudiar Para Maestro - Mederos 1971

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An absolute classic of Cuban poster design, this image by Rene Mederos is beautiful and very simple with only a few colours and very simple ...
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Tuesday, 21 February 2012

Invirno en Llamas - Raymundo 1968

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A touch of San Fran psychedelic art lightens up this poster the way that flames light up churches in Răscoala, a Romanian film that highligh...
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Sunday, 19 February 2012

Los Hermanastros - Bachs 1969

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Bachs' poster for this 1957 Japanese production features his trademark style to illustrate the tyrannical military officer at the centre...
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Tres Invencibles Samurais - Nico 1969

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Here's a great poster for the 1964 Japanese film Three Outlaw Samurai (Sanbiki No Samurai) featuring wandering warrior Shiba defending t...
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Londres a Go-Go - Reboiro 1968

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Londres a Go-Go is The Sandwich Man, an odd British film from 1966 featuring a man who carries an advertising board round London witnessing ...
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Sunday, 8 May 2011

Senales Sobre la Ciudad - Nico 1969

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Senales Sobre la Ciudad (Signali Nad Gradom or Signal over the City) is a 1960 Yugoslavian film about a rescue mission to save a member of t...
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Saturday, 7 May 2011

7 Hombres y una Muchacha - Azcuy - 1968

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This Azcuy designed poster is wild, combining crazy colours and graphics to encapsulate the frenetic action of the film. 7 Hommes et une Gar...
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Gigi - Nico 1969

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Gigi is a sumptuous American musical set at the turn of the century. Its commentary on the lives of the wealthy and priveledged must have ap...
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Tuesday, 15 March 2011

Fantomas Contra Scotland Yard - Bachs 1968

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A great mix of photo montage and cartoon-style imagery collide in this 1968 poster by Bachs for a French crime caper film. The plot of the f...
Sunday, 13 March 2011

LBJ - Reboiro 1968

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LBJ is a surreal documentary by Santiago Alvarez which mixes photo montage with footage of Lyndon B Johnson's background and political l...
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Hasta la Victoria Siempre - Rostgaard 1968

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One of the more famous Cuban posters, this 1968 poster by Rostgaard for a Santiago Alvarez documentary makes use of Korda's iconic image...
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Friday, 11 February 2011

Bela - Oliva 1969

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Another psychedelic design from Oliva that references the best of San Francisco's poster art, Bela is a now obscure 1966 Russian film se...
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Tengo 19 Anos - Reboiro 1968

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Tengo 19 Anos or Ich War Neunzehn (I was 19) is an East German pro-Soviet military drama in which the protagonist recalls his time as a comm...
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Sunday, 12 December 2010

El Nino del Ingenio - Reboiro 1968

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Reboiro borrows heavily from San Francisco psychedelic art for this rarity of a poster for a Brasilian film about a boy sent to live on a su...
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Saturday, 30 October 2010

Ella y El - Bachs 1969

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Bachs' poster for this Japanese drama Kanojo to Kare (She and He) is minimal and classy, using bold colours and simple shapes to illust...
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Pieza Inconclusa para Piano Mecanico - Reboiro 1979

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Channelling the surrealists, Reboiro makes good use of his trademark etching style mixed with a 70s pop art feel to illustrate this Cuban po...
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Saturday, 28 August 2010

Samurai Asesino - Oliva 1968

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Oliva, an artist who relished in copying the style of the psychedelic poster art of San Francisco, takes a more cartoonish approach to the d...
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La Cura y La Muchacha - Bachs 1968

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This is a really nice poster by Bachs demonstrating how the most simple of Cuban poster designs can often be the most beautiful. This is a p...
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Wednesday, 19 May 2010

La Masacre de Chicago - Navarro 1972

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This poster, for the 1967 Roger Corman gangster flick The St Valentine's Day Massacre, ignores the conventions of the prohibition era ...
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Sunday, 2 May 2010

No Somos De Piedra - Nico 1969

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Here's a simple and effective colourful poster from Nico for the 1968 Spanish comedy No Somos de Piedra (We are not made of Stone) which...
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Sunday, 11 April 2010

Sokolovo - Reboiro 1976

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The battle of Sokolovo in 1943 saw the Red Army and Czech forces fighting together to hold back the Nazis. The film is a war film detailing ...
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Debemos Saber - Reborio 1979

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Once again this a great poster for a short film that is now long forgotten. Debemos Saber (We Should Know in English) is a 15 minute docum...
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Sunday, 14 March 2010

Roble Maxima Urgencia - Reboiro 1976

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This is a great moody poster by Reboiro for Roble Maxima Urgencia which is a 1973 Romanian war film originally called Stejar Extrema Urgenta...
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El Brigadista - Reboiro 1977

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Another vibrant poster displaying all the cliches of Cuban film posters by Reboiro. The 1977 film El Brigadista is a feature film that highl...
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Saturday, 10 October 2009

La Vieja Dama Indigna - Bachs 1966

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This early poster by Bachs is less adventurous than his work of the late 60s. It is restrained, using a standard black font and straight lay...
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Monday, 14 September 2009

Las Parrandas - Reboiro 1979

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I know nothing about the documentary by Constante Diego but Las Parrandas is a festival of fireworks and celebration on Christmas eve in R...
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Sunday, 13 September 2009

Jornada del Guerrillero Heroico - OCLAE

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This fantastic poster from OCLAE , The Organización Continental Latinoamericana y Caribeña de Estudiantes or Continental Organization of Lat...
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Wednesday, 2 September 2009

Solidarity with Palestine - Abelenda 1968

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This 1968 poster once again mixes a very serious political issue - the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine - with some inventive a...
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Tuesday, 1 September 2009

Solidarity with Guinea - Lazaro 1970

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The 1970 invasion of Guinea by Portugeuse-led forces was an attempted coup against the government of Ahmed Sékou Touré. Cuba was openly supp...
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Wednesday, 29 July 2009

For Sale: Day of the Heroic Guerilla - Martinez 1978

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This OSPAAAL poster from 1978 by Olivio Martinez uses warm sun drenched colours to idolise Che whose capture by the CIA and Bolivian Special...
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Monday, 27 July 2009

Hiroshima - Mederos 1970

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This OSPAAAL poster from 1970 by René Mederos features a simple but very dramatic image of a victim of Hiroshima, to commemorate the anniver...
Tuesday, 4 November 2008

For Sale: Moncada - COR

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Here's a very simple poster celebrating the 18th anniversary of the attack on the barracks at Moncada by the Cuban rebels on 26th July 1...
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Sao Paulo Sociedad Anonima - Oliva 1968

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One of my favourite Cuban posters, Sao Paulo is for a classic of the Brazilian new wave. The film depicts an anonimous and difficult city li...
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Sunday, 2 November 2008

Screenprinting at the ICAIC

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I came across this short video of silkscreen poster production in progress at the ICAIC's facility in Havana.

Tricontinental magazine - images of Che

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Here's a sweet little booklet from OSPAAAL's Tricontinental magazine with around 25 posters featuring Che Guevara. Printed in Cuba, ...
Sunday, 17 August 2008

Elevando la Conciencia - 1974

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This 1974 poster for the COR celebrates the anniversary of the triumph of the revolution with the famous image of the revolutionaries holdin...
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Solidarity with Puerto Rico - Cordoba 1976

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This great OSPAAAL poster by Rolando Cordoba is an example of the more funky Cuban pop art, borrowing its style from Western sports and pop ...
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Saturday, 26 July 2008

Festival Internacional del Cine Joven - Reboiro 1970

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Here's a nice simple poster from Reboiro making good use of his trademark geometric patterns and iconic blooming plant for a poster to p...
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El Corte Verano - Azcuy 1968

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El Corte Verano (Short is the Summer) is a Swedish love story set in the wilderness of Lapland. Various characters participate in love, jeal...
Monday, 16 June 2008

Cine Movil - Bachs 1969

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A classic of classics of Cuban posters, this 1969 poster for the ICAIC's Cine Movil (Mobile Cinema) project is simplicity itself. Charli...
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