Typography Movie Posters
Swedish illustrator and graphics designer Patrik Svensson has created a fantastically minimalist series of typography posters. The project is a visualisation of various movies by using only letters from title or other typography characters.
Svensson explains what he wanted to achieve from the series:
I have always been a fan of designers that integrate with the viewer to create a sort of game together. I always strive to leave some space for the viewer to fill. It’s a balancing act. The humour is also very important – graphics without a sense of humour is often dead to me.
Personally, The Karate Kid, The Matrix and Basic Instinct are the stand-out designs for me.
- 06.08.2011 .
- Carl MH Barenbrug .
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- Art & Illustration + Graphic design
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- Poster + Typography
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These are brilliant! Love the Groundhog Day. If the first one was called Kramer vs. Kramer, it would be golden.
^^ that’s the problem i think … many of these withought the title below are difficult/impossible to guess making it not so minimal in the end.
“shindlers list” could be “Big”,
“batman” could be “garfield” ….
On the surface, rather well conceptualised. But there have been so many efforts at this kind of design. And almost all of them are clever in some way. Where they all fail, is in being a movie poster. A movie poster has an inherent function (well, several) – to bring the audience into the cinema. All of these posters simply reinforce a theme and rely on the audience already being familiar with the theme. If they are not – as dezio writes – they could mean just about anything. Nice effort, but for the love of god, keep it the f*uck in your drawer.
I agree with Art, I wanted to see if somebody was going to say something like the above. Luckily I read the comments first and then tried to go through the posters and guess correctly which film it was advertising.
I only got ‘Se7en’ before seeing the title.
The Matrix and Basic Instinct ones however are very good design wise.