La Marie Vision
Date
Credits
- Akira Uno 4 Designer
Format
- Poster 2371
Clients
Typefaces
Media
- paper 2062
Techniques
- silk-screen 53
- printing 869
Dimensions
Locations Made
- Tokyo Japan 33
A highly detailed poster for the Japanese experimental theatre group Tenjo Sajiki‘s production La Marie Vison. The style of this poster is heavily illustrative, with themes of pop art, manga, and art nouveau. This was likely printed under Tenjō Sajiki’s international theater program for their 1970 European tour.
The poster specifically features elongated, doll-like figures and imagery rendered in soft pastels with bold outlines, and a hand-drawn title “La Marie-Vison” swirling in Art Nouveau-inspired lettering. Its eeriness but elegance reflects themes of eroticism, identity, and rebellion central to Terayama’s plays. This poster is important to graphic design history because it shows how Japanese designers of the late 1960s and 1970s broke away from modernist simplicity and embraced emotion, storytelling, and psychological depth. The illustration and custom typography turned the poster itself into a theatrical experience, influencing later generations of artists who wanted to blend art, design, and performance.
