Do you prefer a night at the opera or a day at the beach? These four new posters for our 2022 Poster Annual explore and promote these topics and more!
Graphis Master Gunter Rambow gives us something to sing about with “La Serva Padrona / Stabat Mater” (above, left). Created as a promotional advertisement for the Frankfurt Opera, the black poster bills two operas by Italian composer Giovanni Battista Pergolesi. La Serva Padrona is a short play about a man and his maidservant, and Stabat Mater is a musical based on a 13th-century Christian hymn. The gray cross over the red heart hinders the love of the characters in both operas and invites the viewers to see the shows to find out what happens.
Straws are great for drinking with but bad for the ocean. Marlena Buczek Smith, an American graphic artist, makes that clear in “Straw Enablers” (above, right.) A turtle made from disposable plastic straws is taped onto blue construction paper. In the upper left corner is the tagline, “The Struggle for Proper Disposal.” Plastic waste poisons our sea life, and we are enabling it; Buczek Smith challenges us to cut down on and recycle plastic garbage.
