CityArt

December 14, 20090 Comments Tagged: Art, building, city, pattern, poster

The Publique Living Store has a great selection of posters just released for sale. They are some quite stunning examples of what can be achieved  when applying an architectural design to a more traditional graphic design implementation.

Each of the posters is based on a well known and distinctive building in a particular city. The distinctive element of that building are then turned into a pattern of sorts that forms the basis for the poster. For example - the asymmetrical polygons that make up the Water Cube National Aquatic Center from the Beijing Olympics are presented as the background graphic in blue and grey on a particular poster.

Each poster is then overlaid with three letters representative of the city the building is located in.

The posters are stunning to look at, even with no knowledge of the relevance of the shapes - but a bit of extra knowledge and understanding adds hugely to their appeal. The colours are toned back slightly so as not to be too gaudy, but are bright enough to kick off the page and draw just enough attention to themselves.

Go check them out.