Affiches 2026: Jules Chéret's Belle

Affiches 2026: Jules Chéret's Belle Époque posters, advertising the things of 2026.

In the 1890s Jules Chéret covered the walls of Paris with colour lithograph posters: a laughing woman in a swirling yellow dress, hand-drawn lettering shouting the product, colour sprayed across the sheet. I took ten of his posters from the Rijksmuseum, where they are in the public domain, and built a Recraft V4 Style from them, lettering and all. Affiches 2026 keeps his dancing girls and his typography and lets them sell what Paris buys today: free wifi, delivery in ten minutes, the electric scooter, the electric car, noise-cancelling headphones, binge-watching, a dating app and coffee to go. Three posters come to life with Recraft's video tools, and every headline is lettered by the style itself. A hundred and thirty years on, the products have changed; the joy of selling them has not.