There is not a single one of these movies that I would not watch. Also, damn if I don’t not love double negatives!
The posters are by Matt Ranzetta, and I think he’s still making them, so check out his site.
Typo-shaped movie posters
Jerod Gibson makes posters based on movies, posters that take one iconic image — say, a bar of soap — and then fill them with iconic quotes.
I like. Besides Fight Club, he’s also done Clerks, The Hangover, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Star Wars … and I like his take on The Goonies, below.
Hit the jump if you want to see The Simpsons and Pulp Fiction. Or see them all at his site, where he continues to post new ones regularly and where you can buy prints for $25 or $30. Worth it!
I love these vintage-style movie posters
Tavis Coburn, with design agency Dutch Uncle, was commissioned to do up some posters for the 2010 BAFTAs, which he did in delightfully retro style. I love this one for the Hurt Locker, which looks like it was ripped from the cover of a deliciously pulp sci-fi paperback that I might have purchased for 75 cents from a used-book store as a pre-teen:
He also did Up In The Air, Precious, and An Education, but I think my second-favourite was the one he did for Avatar.
Coburn’s bio, on the Dutch Uncle site, says that his “unique style is inspired by 1940s comic book art, the Russian avant-garde movement, and printed materials from the 1950s/60s.”
Why, I think that’s a recipe for awesome.
A collection of vintage movie posters — all porn
I pinched this from Colin’s Facebook feed, and I’ve been engrossed looking at the posters ever since: X-Rated Collection of Adult Movie Posters From the 60s and 70s.
As the site says:
X-rated movie poster designs are imaginative and diverse. Though their execution can be primitive, this simply adds to their charm. When coupled with risqué and often witty taglines, the posters are a winning mixture of the amusing and the stylish.
Nearly all X-rated posters from this era were designed by unknown artists, although similarities in technique and approach can often be identified. One exception is Emmanuelle, where the distributors hired designer Steve Frankfurt – the genius behind countless movie posters and the writer of some of cinema’s most memorable taglines. Emmanuelle‘s simply reads: ‘X was never like this‘. This award-winning poster came to embody ‘porno chic’.
The posters were frequently vague and misleading to audiences. Director Radley Metzger, for example, imported foreign movies such as Days Of Sin And Nights Of Nymphomania (Mellem Venner – Holland, 1963) and The Weird Love Makers (Kyonetsu No Kisetsu – Japan, 1964) but then marketed them as American films to ensure their appeal to a wider audience. The poster for The Weird Love Makers uses simple graphics with an intriguing tagline: ‘They do everything‘. Such slogans promised far more than the movies themselves could ever deliver.
As I say: the vintage designs and the tame-by-today’s-standards titillation are totally awesome. I don’t think it would fit in with my current decor, but they have a number of posters for sale, too. Of course, the cheapest ones I can find still go for £75. Which is a little too steep for me.