Showing posts with label poster. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poster. Show all posts

Thursday, 4 August 2011

Neon Posters

found this on taghrid.cc's blog. Neon film Poster's by Mr Whaite who explains;
"I love neon signs - they’re hypnotic, sexy, sleazy and tacky all at the same time - and I’ve always thought it would be cool if cinemas used them to advertise films. So with that in mind, I thought I’d have a go at designing some animated Movie "


A neon poster for HELP!
The semaphore actually spells NUJV! According to cover photographer Robert Freeman, “I had the idea of semaphore spelling out the letters HELP, but when we came to do the shot the arrangement of arms with those letters didn’t look good, so we decided to improvise and ended up with the best graphic positioning of the arms.”
It’s the Wimbledon finals this weekend, so I thought this would be a suitable neon poster to mark the occasion. It’s the creepy scene from Strangers on a Train where Guy Haines (Farley Granger) is being stalked by Robert Walker’s murderous Bruno.
At a tennis match the crowd watch the ball play back and forth while Bruno remains motionless, staring menacingly across the court at Guy.
A classic Hitchcock moment - can you spot him in the crowd?
A neon poster for The Shining.
Jaws was released 36 years ago today and I still won’t get back in the water.
For this design, I initially tried animating the classic Jaws poster with the swimmer and shark. Unfortunately it looked like the girl was swimming on the spot and the shark was chewing gum - not very menacing!
Instead, I’ve gone for a pair of shapely female legs treading water - it evokes a sleazy strip-club neon sign but with added danger. Also, the ripples are a neat link to the previous Spielberg neon poster, Jurassic Park. 
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s Superman in neon.

Tuesday, 2 August 2011

Graphic Design; National Rail Museum Posters

via http://www.creativereview.co.uk

"Leeds-based Thompson Brand Partners has created a new identity for the UK's National Rail Museum, the largest rail museum in the world."

"According to Thompson, "The new logo has been designed to reflect the direction the museum is moving in. It is modern, simple, easy to read and dynamic with a clear indication of speed and momentum. It is based on the many angled slashes that can be found in the iconography and architecture of railway throughout history. It also makes subtle reference to rails.""
"As well as the logo itself, new typefaces, colours and imagery will be applied across all uniforms, signage and so on at the main museum in York and its Shildon site in the coming months."

"The museum's previous logo recalled the bygone days of steam and great British railway companies with its three-dimensional lettering. While the new look lacks the charm of its predecessor (and may not look so great on merchandise), it's clean and simple and unlikely to date rapidly. It will probably invite criticism for being too obvious or "easy" a solution but, as opposed to some of the other museum identities we have seen in recent times, it is not trying too hard or making a conceptual promise that its execuition can't deliver. It's a museum about rail, past and future and the new mark does a fine job of conveying just that.
We haven't seen anything beyond the basic mark yet, so it's unfair to judge what the overall success of this identity might be. However, it may need some bold and imaginative applications to avoid seeming overly bland and corporate."

Saturday, 9 July 2011

Pedro Almodóvar; Film Posters that Rule

After wikipedia-ing 'The skin I live in' (that new creepy Spanish Fim with Antonion Banderess, google it) I discovered that Pedro Almodóvar's films come with really good posters;


The Skin I Live In











agreed?

Saturday, 2 April 2011

collin firth


Ha! Some helpful and wonderful soul actually found this for me. Thanking you!