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Twenty-one Hollywood posters that are a design prodigy

2021-04-26T03:43:01.460Z


Whether through the use of different techniques, their ability to create visual impact, synthesize emotions or show unique authorial universes, posters, like movies themselves, are an inexhaustible source of stories that take on their true meaning when they pass through the retina of the audience


  • 1Gilda (Charles Vidor, 1946) We make it easy for us to start, the classics are the classics.

    Gilda's poster, apart from having immortalized a myth, is a clear example of how purely plastic resources accompanied cinema posters for decades, often using painted photos to color the black and white of the thirties and forties.

    Design: Unknown.

    Source: IMP Awards.

  • 2Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger, 1959) There is no poster shop worth its salt that does not offer a range of works by the world's best-known film designer, Saul Bass, responsible for the graphic imaginary of immortal filmmakers of the 1950s such as Alfred Hitchcok u Otto Preminger.

    His great contribution: the ability to synthesize.

    Design: Saul Bass.

    Source: IMP Awards

  • 3Ben-Hur (William Wyler, 1959) Those huge stone letters are unmistakable, they marked a way of representing the epic tales (and with greater deployment of means) of some remote episodes of history that the producers of the middle of the century liked so much XX.

    Design: Joseph Smith.

    Source: IMP Awards

  • 4 Winners or losers?

    (Stanley Kramer, 1961) Many great productions of the sixties had star-studded posters with their corresponding ego struggles.

    In this case, a masterly graphic sobriety made it possible to publicize the well-known cast fairly without betraying the solemnity of the Nuremberg trials.

    Design: Unknown.

    Source: IMP Awards

  • 5Taxi driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976) Urban corners and some of its dark inhabitants were the source of great dramas in the seventies and their corresponding posters, which have become authentic graphic icons like this one.

    Design: Guy Peellaert.

    Source: IMP Awards

  • 61997: escape from New York (John Carpenter, 1981) In the seventies and eighties catastrophe films became fashionable and many of its graphics lived up to their genre.

    This is not the case with this poster with a successful diagonal composition and a point of attention as powerful as the collapsed head of the Statue of Liberty.

    Design: Barry E. Jackson.

    Source: IMP Awards

  • 7Coup in Little China (John Carpenter, 1986) Drew Struzan is an indisputable reference in American poster art, present in inevitable sagas such as Star Wars or Indiana Jones (even our Torrente had its Struzan).

    Its filigree is an indelible hallmark of commercial cinema from the eighties and a style that is still used today to advertise big-budget movies and series.

    Design: Drew Struzan.

    Source: IMP Awards

  • 8The Piano (Jane Campion, 1993) In the 1990s, Photoshop relegated illustrated posters and opened the door to ornate photomontages with huge faces.

    Fortunately, in this case they applied the maxim of composing the image from reality itself, putting the weight on the characters more than on the cast;

    photography could speak for itself, without the need for artifice.

    Design: Kellerman Design.

    Source: IMP Awards

  • 9The English Patient (Anthony Minghella, 1996) Epic love melting in the desert sand.

    Photographic retouching has sometimes gifted us with tremendously plastic textures that enhance the promise of emotion.

    Design: Indika Entertainment Advertising.

    Source: IMP Awards

  • 10 Star Wars.

    Episode I: The Phantom Menace (George Lucas, 1999) When the Star Wars fever was rekindled, the film's publicity kept its cool.

    A subtle iconic shadow is enough to imagine the entire biography of one of the most beloved villains of all time.

    Design: New Wave Creative.

    Source: IMP Awards

  • 11Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Woody Allen, 2008) Leaving the painting was not something that many movie stars were allowed until someone came up with the idea of ​​urging the brains to complete the images and thus generate more desire to know what is hidden behind the poster.

    Design: Ignition - LA.

    Source: IMP Awards

  • 12Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky, 2010) The 'star system' sometimes occupies the entire poster, but in this case a mere detail provides all the necessary nuances to generate the questions that push to enter the room.

    Why is this delicate porcelain skin broken?

    Design: Empire Design.

    Source: IMP Awards

  • 13 Between Drinks (Alexander Payne, 2004) Comedy and drawing have always gotten along well.

    In the mid-2000s, illustration began to regain posterism.

    Sometimes a clear concept told in two strokes is enough to put the audience in the background.

    Design: XL - Union + Webster.

    Source: IMP Awards

  • 14The city of stars, La La Land (Damien Chazelle, 2016) The La La Land poster is an invitation to dance, a clear tribute to the great musicals of the 1950s and 1960s and a clever mechanism for hiding the bitter zones of this sung love story.

    Design: LA.

    Source: IMP Awards

  • 15Langosta (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2015) Some films, even if they have great Hollywood faces in their DNA, can afford an air as sophisticated and cultural as this poster whose wonderful use of emptiness raises all kinds of questions.

    Different versions were made because many posters of a single movie fit on social media.

    Design: Vasilis Marmatakis.

    Source: IMP Awards

  • 16Moonlight (Barry Jenkins, 2016) Three glances in a single face, a virtuous use of color, composition and retouching to look directly at the viewer.

    For something he won the Oscar for best film.

    Design: InSync Plus.

    Source: IMP Awards

  • 17Call me by your name (Luca Guadagnino, 2017) An initiatory love with a lot of summer skies where to find good reviews and well-deserved awards.

    The poster is missing the Oscar for best adapted screenplay that it won in 2018. Design: Cardinal Communications USA.

    Source: IMP Awards

  • 18The shape of water (Guillermo del Toro, 2017) Dream worlds and possible loves, this fable by Guillermo del Toro pulled plastic codes to be faithful to the particular universe of his film.

    Good handling of an underwater darkness that transmits very real emotions in an invented world.

    Great also that sinking shoe.

    Design: MIDNIGHT OIL.

    Source: IMP Awards

  • 19Wonder Woman 1984 (Patty Jenkins, 2020) Sagas with superpowers always honor their graphic origins and take advantage of the power of production to generate spectacular posters.

    This teaser for the latest sequel to the most profitable heroine in movie history would never go unnoticed.

    Design: WORKS ADV.

    Source: Cinematerial

  • 20The New Mutants (Josh Boone, 2020) The most recent blockbusters dare with unusual plastic formulas in this type of film, taking over graphic codes typical of social networks and street art that fully appeal to the new generations .

    Design: Ignition.

    Source: IMP Awards

  • 21The french dispatch (Wes Anderson, 2021) The little we have of this rare decade has given rise to small gems of poster art like this one, not suitable for all audiences (work, by the way, by a Spanish cartoonist).

    Because Wes Anderson, as a member of a privileged elite of creative minds, sells his films however he wants.

    Great news for poster design.

    Design: Javier Aznarez.

    Source: IMP Awards

Source: elparis

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