LWLies Six­ties Presents… Bon­nie and Clyde reimagined

LWLies Six­ties is part of #99DaysOfDesign, from 99designs by Vistaprint. Check out all the posters in the series and dis­cov­er more at 99de​signs​.com

The word ​‘icon­ic’ can some­times feel overused in the con­text of apprais­ing pop­u­lar cin­e­ma – but how else do you describe the defin­ing film of the New Hol­ly­wood era, in which the most roman­ti­cised crim­i­nal cou­ple in Amer­i­can his­to­ry is played by two of its most cher­ished screen stars?

For the fourth poster in our part­ner­ship with 99 Days of Design, a cel­e­bra­tion of the pow­er of design from 99designs by Vistaprint, Argen­tin­ian illus­tra­tor Cami­la Fla­men­co has put her unique stamp on Arthur Penn’s 1967 biopic, telling the sto­ry of the epony­mous out­laws as immor­tal­ized by Faye Dun­away and War­ren Beatty.

“Being that the movie title is the name of the main char­ac­ters, I felt that the poster should show the cou­ple in action,” Cami­la explains of her cre­ative process. ​“One idea that came to me ear­ly on was to show them run­ning away from their pros­e­cu­tors with mon­ey sacks, maybe with their icon­ic car… but the one that looked most inter­est­ing was them stand­ing back-to-back hold­ing their guns, ready to jump into action.

“It was impor­tant to con­vey mis­chief and fun in their looks,” she adds. ​“Some­thing else worth men­tion­ing is that the final piece has some resem­blance to the ​‘WANT­ED’ signs from the era that Bon­nie and Clyde were around in. I also love the bub­bli­ness of ​’60s design and how colours are used to give life to things. I take a lot of inspi­ra­tion from that, and I like being able to try new com­bi­na­tions and apply tex­tures and gradients.”

Check out all six LWLies Six­ties posters and dis­cov­er more about 99designs by Vistaprint at 99de​signs​.com