Competition: win an illustrated film poster by Aiste Stancikaite
In our latest competition, we've teamed up with creative agency Grand Matter to offer five readers the chance to win the print of their choice, illustrated by artist Aiste Stancikaite.
Stancikaite has re-imagined posters for the films Call Me by Your Name, Paris is Burning and The Danish Girl as hyper-realistic red pencil drawings.
These are paired with bespoke typography and printed on A2-size specialist artist's paper.
The artist worked with graphic designers Chris Clarke, Polytechnic and iWant Design on the typography for each poster ? with concept and creative direction from London-based Grand Matter.
Forming a series called Alternative Stories, each film was chosen for its themes of inclusivity and diversity in stories of LGBT+ experiences not widely represented in mainstream media. The poster for Call Me by Your Name shows the nude back of a male with arms stretching upwards. Set in 1980s Italy, the film tells a coming-of-age love story between a teenage boy and an older man.
"The film was rich with references to the Italian Renaissance sculptures which inspired me to focus on the body, creating a pose that resembled ancient nude sculptures and had that sense of heat-soaked exhaustion and a touch of eroticism about it," said Stancikaite.
The artist's monochromatic pencil style allows for a "variety of tones" and "visual complexity" in the poster, drawing on the sculptural qualities of the nude form.
"The simplicity is an ode to the...
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