About Beirut Golden-Age Poster
In the 1960s Beirut was the "Paris of the East," and its cabarets and the Baalbeck International Festival announced themselves with lavishly silk-screened lithographs. Midnight-blue grounds carried gold-foil and magenta-neon script in swooping lettering where Kufic met Art Deco — one famous Karajan festival poster used 35 colors plus two silk-screens and hot-press gold foil.
This system distills that maximalist poster glamour into digital form: a saturated midnight-blue ground, signature festival gold, magenta and teal neon accents, and dramatic Deco-Kufic display type rendered at festival-poster scale.
- Origin
- Middle East — Beirut and Baalbeck, Lebanon
- Era
- 1950–1990 (festival-poster golden era ~1968–1975)
- Key figures
- Baalbeck International Festival design commissions · Beirut cabaret poster lithographers
- Movements
- Levantine Art-Deco · Kufic display lettering · Mid-century silk-screen poster art
Beirut Golden-Age Poster design spec
Colors
Typography
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