Wild in the Streets 1968

Robert Peak’s poster for ‘Wild in the Streets’ bursts with this chaotic energy, all done with ink or paint, somehow printed. You can almost feel the artist wrestling with the medium, pushing it this way and that. I can imagine Robert, cigarette dangling from his lip, trying to capture the zeitgeist. The black outlines are strong, confident, but the colours are where it gets interesting: that hot red against the cool blue, and the overall feeling is kinda brash, kinda loud, kinda of-its-time. Look at the lettering of the title! It feels like an old horror movie poster, adding a playful layer to the design. I love how the American flag becomes a motif throughout the composition, distorted and repurposed to fit the narrative. The image is definitely conversing with other movie posters from the time, as if the artist is saying, "I'm part of this conversation, and I'm going to bring my own perspective to it.” It's a reminder that art-making is always a dialogue, a back-and-forth between artists across generations.