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Inglourious Movie Poster Illustration

posterwire — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:59:49 +0000

Unused Inglourious Basterds movie poster art Illustrator James Goodridge shares a completed (and unused) illustration he created for a proposed Inglourious Basterds movie poster. As one of the few traditional illustrators working in Hollywood, James was also kind enough to answer a few questions about his background, his illustration work in entertainment advertising, and how he [...]

Bob Peak Movie Poster Exhibition

posterwire — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:38:26 +0000

Bob Peak: Father of The Modern Hollywood Poster The Gallery Nucleus in Southern California is hosting an exhibition of movie poster key art created by legendary artist Bob Peak. The Bob Peak: Father of The Modern Hollywood Poster gallery show will feature over 40 of Bob Peak’s original illustrations, paintings, and a new line of limited [...]

One Letter Off

posterwire — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 17:32:39 +0000

Worth1000.com Photoshop Contest Worth1000.com posted their latest movie poster theme Photoshop contest, known as One Letter Off. Billed as “Not quite the movies you know”, the contest rules are fairly simple, but set the stage for some really creative results: It’s not easy being a professional graphic designer. Often they’re asked to create a movie poster with [...]

Personal Bollywood Movie Poster

posterwire — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:56:53 +0000

Commissioned Hand-Painted Bollywood Poster Dave Prager, of the weblog Our Delhi Struggle, details the interesting story of how he sought out a Bollywood poster painter living near Old Delhi (India) to commission a Bollywood-style movie poster from personal photographs: And then, two weeks after we had commissioned it, Jenny and I came to Darya Ganj to behold [...]

Art of the Modern Movie Poster

posterwire — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 01:47:41 +0000

Movie Poster Coffee Table Book Just in time for the holidays we managed to get our hands on the new coffee table book Art of the Modern Movie Poster: International Postwar Style and Design. This movie poster design book certainly has to be one of the largest (and one of only a few) books on movie [...]

Animated Terminator Salvation Poster

posterwire — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:56:05 +0000

Terminating Print Media Sony Pictures and Warner Bros. have released an online animated Terminator Salvation movie poster, which the studio is calling a motion poster. From the official synopsis for T4: In the highly anticipated new installment of The Terminator film franchise, set in post-apocalyptic 2018, Christian Bale stars as John Connor, the man fated to lead [...]

Movie Poster Floating Heads

posterwire — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:52:52 +0000

Movie Poster Designer Gavin Berliner interview video Meet the graphic designer behind Hollywood’s most famous floating head movie posters: That video hurts because it is so true. See more examples of Big Heads.

Dane Cook: Movie Poster Critic

posterwire — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:42:14 +0000

Dane Cook Hates My Best Friend’s Girl poster In what may turn into an on-going series of celebrities critiquing the movie poster campaigns from their own projects (see director Frank Darabont on The Mist poster), we now have comedian Dane Cook. The comedian recently posted on his MySpace blog about his thoughts about the movie poster [...]

2008 Key Art Award Winners

posterwire — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:09:36 +0000

Movie Poster Award Winners The Hollywood Reporter’s 37th Annual Key Art Awards were presented June 13th during a ceremony hosted by actor-comedian Jeff Garlin. Highlights of the 2008 Key Art Awards included a “Best in Show” award to The Simpsons Movie in the Print category and No Country for Old Men in the newly-created “Best Campaign” [...]

2008 Key Art Awards Nominations

posterwire — Tue, 20 May 2008 14:58:44 +0000

Movie Poster Award Nominees The Hollywood Reporter has announced the nominees for The 37th Annual Key Art Awards. The 2008 Key Art Awards will honor achievements in movie marketing in different categories including film posters, movie trailers, print ads, DVD packaging, new media and more. Film advertising agency BLT & Associates took the lead among agencies [...]