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Working as game designer for Gametronics gave me a lot of artistic freedom. My boss never really gave me very many "No's" and a product was good to go as long as the designer or artist thought it was fine. The freedom to create gave me the chances to experiment with different ideas and art directions, and this poster design was one of the "experimental" designs.

I tried to incorporate Tamara De Lempicka's painting style into this glass design. Lempicka was a famous Art Deco period painter. Her rendering style gave her painting objects very strong constrast and shadows.

It might have been a coincidence, but Gametronics at that time hired people with very interesting faces and body sizes. Blessed like a model agency, if you want a particular face or body type, one of my coworkers had it. So, I asked my coworkers to pose for me as a "millionaire" and a "sexy lady" for the design. By merely adding a moustache and gelling his hair, we had a millionaire; removing some fabrics from the back of a dress (in a photo), we had a foxy lady.

In retrospect, I wish I had better drawing and rendering skill so that the two people in the poster didn't look as plastic and fake.

LEFT: "Portrait of a Man" (Incomplete) by Lempicka, 1928

See Also: Fortune Fair Poster Design, Golden Egg Poster Design

© 2000, Gametronics Co. Ltd.
Tools Used: Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop.

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