About Caribbean Rastafarian (Jamaica)
Caribbean Rastafarian design is the visual language of a spiritual-political movement born in 1930s Jamaica around the divinity of Emperor Haile Selassie, broadcast worldwide through Bob Marley's reggae and Neville Garrick's album covers. Its discipline is strict: saturated red, gold, and green tricolor bands, lion-of-Judah heraldry, deep black ancestry-typography, and cream natural-textile ground.
The signature is hand-painted reggae-poster vernacular — slightly irregular sign-writing, chunky display lockups, and Ethiopian-Orthodox iconography handled with reverence. Words like "Jah", "I-and-I", "Zion" function as graphic motifs. It is loud, warm, communal, and unmistakably Pan-African.
- Origin
- Jamaica (Kingston / Trench Town / St. Ann); broader Caribbean and African diaspora
- Era
- 1930 founded (Leonard Howell, Jamaica); reggae visual peak 1973–1981 (Bob Marley); continuous practice through 21c
- Key figures
- Marcus Garvey · Leonard Howell · Haile Selassie I · Bob Marley · Neville Garrick
- Movements
- Rastafarianism · Reggae · Pan-Africanism · Post-colonial Caribbean cultural-identity
Caribbean Rastafarian (Jamaica) design spec
Colors
Typography
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