Double Proficiency 🐦‍⬛ @doubleproficiency.com · Oct 24

The Polish School of Posters was not limited to movie posters, and it was lead by some of the most prominent artists of the time. Look at this amazing bird: it's a 1978 ad poster for Polish Airlines (LOT) with a business end of a sparrow. Painted by Janusz Stanny, source of my childhood nightmare.

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Double Proficiency 🐦‍⬛ · Oct 24

Stanny's illustration style is unmistakable: dark, haunting, liminal, surreal. And SOMEONE thought it's a good idea to have him illustrate fairy tales. Behold, the art that broke me at the tender age of 6 when I decided to read my Mom's Andersen anthology for myself.