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About Yellow Submarine (Edelmann pop)

Yellow Submarine is the flat, saturated, cut-paper psychedelia Heinz Edelmann built for the 1968 animated feature: Pop Art collage crossed with poster illustration, drawn in unbroken ink outlines and filled with candy-flat color that never once pretends to look real. No gradients, no shading — depth comes only from overlap. Figures float on fields of pure hue while rainbow bands ripple across the frame. It reads as a party the instant it loads. The submarine is a fat yellow toy, the Sea of Green a literal wall of green, and hands, eyes and clocks drift through Op-Art tunnels. Turn the volume up, flatten everything, and paint reality the colors it should have been.

Learn more about the Yellow Submarine (Edelmann pop) style

Origin
London — TVC (TV Cartoons) studio, Soho
Era
1967–1968 (film released July 1968); visual language of the Edelmann model sheets
Key figures
Heinz Edelmann · George Dunning · Jack Stokes · Robert Balser
Movements
Pop Art · psychedelia · poster illustration · Op Art

Yellow Submarine (Edelmann pop) design spec

Colors

Background
Surface
Primary
Secondary
Accent
Text

Typography

FredokaHeadings
NunitoBody
BungeeMono
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