Minimalist Oscar Posters
Inspired by the 83rd edition of the Academy Awards airing today, here is a series of minimalist posters created by graphic designer David Lopez, one for each Best Picture Oscar nominee.
David tried to find and use a key element from each movie to represent the film as a whole. Despite my personal wishes for Black Swan to succeed, my favorite poster was the one for Inception.
- 27.02.2011 .
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Social network is the best…
Horrible use of a condensed Futura (?).
Why that stinking 2005 wannabe paper feel? Just no; try keeping it professional instead..
I can dig the illustrations tho :)
agreed Robin, Very questionable use of Futura condensed and the fake texture is unnecessary.
The inception icon is very nice though…but that type. I just can’t get behind it.
I would agree. The illustrations are really impressive, but the type is not so. A rather bizarre choice I think.
Forget the typeface – what happened to the Oscar winner’s apostrophe?! :-)
Very cool posters… I just can’t get over the Victorinox logo on the 127 Hours poster. The whole point of the movie is that the tool is NOT a Victorinox.
These are very… Inelegant.
It seems like minimalistic movie poster are a fad among designers nowadays.Olly
Excuse me. (Stupid touch interface)
What I was saying is that Olly Moss continues to be the master of this domain in my opinion.
@Bilgi Karan;
I totally agree. A Victorinox multi-tool/knife would have helped so much. The free multi-tool that came with the ~$20 flashlight was a piece of junk… a sharp blade would have been a godsend in Aron Ralston’s situation.
Cheap.
Typeface doesn’t work. Apart from the ‘Social Network’ piece imagery is dead. Have a nice day.
Well, most of you have already said it, but I’ll drive the nail in the coffin aswell. Poor typography and inflated design factor. I find most of these attempts rather badly done and conceived. The positive thing is that there’s a trend among designers to steer away from the traditional Hollywood poster; the megarendered, overphotoshopped nasty explosion of graphic imagery. But the solution is almost as bad as the problem: An icon, some poorly kerned type, a filter that simulates aged paper. Phew. How lazy. There are other concepts – have a look at old Polish movie poster for instance: http://wellmedicated.com/inspiration/50-incredible-film-posters-from-poland/
http://alexfioratti.blogspot.com/2011/05/film-poster-design.html