Los Angeles Retro Anime Travel Poster

Los Angeles is a city that stretches across 503 square miles and calls it a "metropolitan area" the way a cat calls an entire house its personal territory. The Hollywood sign watches over the city from Mount Lee with the tired dignity of a landmark that has been photographed more times than it's been properly maintained. Venice Beach's boardwalk is a permanent circus. Griffith Observatory offers the best view of the skyline, especially at night, when the grid of lights stretches to every horizon and makes the city look like a circuit board dreaming of stardom. This poster renders Los Angeles in warm 1990s anime cel style — the Hollywood sign perched in hand-drawn hillside green, Santa Monica Pier's Ferris wheel glowing in retro carnival pastels, and the downtown skyline catching cel-shaded golden-hour light that the film industry has been chasing for a century. Palm trees line Sunset Boulevard in vintage silhouette. The Getty Center's white travertine terraces float above the 405 in anime architectural elegance. Printed on 200 gsm matte paper with archival inks.