Sunday, October 26, 2008

inspiration: West Side Story (1961)


"be cool, boy!" was a really cool assignment: view the film West Side Story and create a graphic inspired by the movie. Let me say that you don't have to twist my arm to watch a Natalie Wood movie, and WSS is one of the few in her repertoire that I had not seen until this weekend. Of course the movie is fabulous, and has an artful quality that identifies the imagery of Manhattan in 1961 to a T. Inspired not only by the movie, but by one of it's graphic art contributors, the great Saul Bass, I have posted the final version of my representation. What fun!

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