This is a Drawing. It was designed by Paul Colin. Its medium is gouache, crayon on paper. French artist and set designer Paul Colin designed posters for musical, film, and theater venues throughout Paris in the 1920s, including the Folies Bergères, the Moulin Rouge, and most famously Josephine Baker’s Revue Nègre. When I first saw the poster, it look like a sketch to me. There was a couple dancing against an abstracted backdrop of the tower and the designer apply simple color to the couple.
This is a Book, Cover. Its medium is red-and-black-printed and illustrated paper. The book cover features a graphic design style representative of Constructivism. Using images of city skyscrapers and a movie director’s megaphone, the book design expresses modernism, American movies, and the times, when movies captured the imagination as much as did fashion and the arts. The cover is use of clean sans-serif type. The dark area contrast the light background. Hierarchy in order of size.
