I am here for the vertical and the horizontal. I am here for the grain, and the juxtaposition of skin tones and jade. I am here for the simple connection of two human beings in shared repose.
Sometimes, key art need not be any more complicated than good colour matching and beautiful humans. Set in the shadowy underworld of 1990s Saigon, Ash Mayfair's Skin Of Youth crafts a striking portrait of queer life and personal freedom, blending emotional intensity with sensuous imagery. This is self-evident from the simple power of its key art.
While there is an English language version of the original poster, below, that one lacks the criss-cross of vertical and horizontal text, a detail which better accents the vertical window in the background and the horizontal characters in the foreground.
The rose-cream coloured type-face here has a kind of tearaway at the bottom (that is most definitely not the bed captured by the camera) to make room for the more traditional credit block, which is so tiny as to be more aesthetic than informative. I'm cool with that.
Friday One Sheet: SKIN OF YOUTH
