History Main / DesignStudentsOrgasm

%%* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xD-skYk0h2Y This]] UsefulNotes/PlayStation3 commercial

* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyYCYd2wHY4 opening]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewICfFjc4CI closing]] sequences of ''Anime/TatamiGalaxy''. Additionally, the black and white background with selective coloring in the opening sequence prevails through the entire anime.

Peaked in popularity during the late 2000s as part of a larger trend towards humanist, maximalist computer-aided graphic design in that decade. "[[Frutiger Metro]](https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Frutiger_Metro)" is an alternate, increasingly common term coined in the early 2020s.

Peaked in popularity during the late 2000s as part of a larger movement towards humanist, maximalist computer-aided graphic design. "[Frutiger Metro](https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Frutiger_Metro)" is an alternate, increasingly common term coined in the early 2020s.

This is something of a fashionable and stylistic approach in visual media. Overwhelmingly, these designs are made with vector graphics, to create solid areas of colour with crisp, geometrically neat outlines. Usually involves vivid colours over a monochrome background (white has preference as a neutral colour, but it can easily be black). The colour patterns can also be switched for the negative space, while the solid colour becomes the foreground.

It's easier to show than to describe, hence the picture. Look for examples of this rather abstract art in commercials and opening credits. In animated works, designs may flow outwards from a central point, gaining variety and complexity as they grow.

* Mark Ryden's design of ''Music/{{Dangerous}}'' by Music/MichaelJackson had a lot of surreal imagery and references to "The King of Pop" himself.

%%* Many, many, ''[[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible many]]'' music videos fall under this trope, but the most JustForFun/{{egregious}} is by far TLC's "No Scrubs," based in a futuristic spaceship/something and has absolutely nothing to do with broke suitors.

%%* The opening credits of the U.S. version of ''Film/TheGirlWithTheDragonTattoo''. So much.

%%* The animation in ''Film/AScannerDarkly'' counts.

** ''Deep Purple'', the third album by Music/DeepPurple uses a black-and-white image of the "Hell" panel of Creator/HieronymusBosch's ''The Garden Of Earthly Delights'' on its cover. Music/DeadCanDance uses a small image from the second panel of the same painting on the cover of their album ''Aio''. The cover of Music/JohnZorn's "Chimeras" (2003) is a detail of the Creator/HieronymusBosch painting "The Last Judgment", a tryptich where only a fragment has survived.

* ''LightNovel/{{Bakemonogatari}}'', hands down. In fact, anything done by Creator/StudioSHAFT will feature this trope in spades.
%%* ''LightNovel/GroundControlToPsychoelectricGirl'' another one by Creator/StudioSHAFT [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utccB8QYE84]]

** Music/JohnZorn's album "On the Torment of Saints, the Casting of Spells and the Evocation of Spirits" (2013) uses Creator/SalvadorDali's painting "The Temptation of St. Anthony" on the cover.

* Music/TearsForFears: After the relatively low-key album art for ''Music/TheHurting'' and ''Music/SongsFromTheBigChair'', the cover for ''Music/TheSeedsOfLove'' is an [[https://www.blackmagazin.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/TFF-Seeds-Of-Love-Cover-.jpg elaborate collage of paintings and props]] tying in with the album's denser, more organic sound and even more eclectic style.

* The album cover of ''Music/DiamondDogs'' by Music/DavidBowie was designed by famous Belgian pop art painter Guy Peellaert and shows Bowie and two other people as man-dog hybrids. Peellaert also did the cover of ''Music/ItsOnlyRockNRoll'' by Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}.

* The album cover of ''Music/{{News of the World|Queen}}'' by Music/{{Queen}} is based on a painting by Frank Kelly Freas, an artist best known for painting scenes of science fiction stories. The image showed a giant intelligent robot holding a human corpse. The members of Queen asked Freas if he could paint the exact same image, only with them in place of the corpse.

* ''Music/{{Oxygene}}'' by Music/JeanMichelJarre: The album cover is a painting by Michel Granger, depicting the Earth as a skull, for which Jarre received official permission to use it.

%%* Any of the openings or endings in ''LightNovel/BakaAndTestSummonTheBeasts.''

* Music/KingCrimson's first album covers. Particularly noteworthy is their third album ''Lizard'', whose cover was designed by Gini Barris. The name of the band is written in elaborate medieval lettering, and each letter incorporates depictions of scenes described in each song. The band has since stuck with simpler or outright minimalist album covers since.