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Design Trends Used In Action Movie Posters from 1960-2010

Movie posters are one of my favourite sources of inspiration, and I love to look at how they have developed over the decades. In this post, we will be looking at how the designs of action movie posters have changed since the 1960′s. You’ll find one poster per year so we can closely monitor the changes, and a small selection of current trends that we’re going to be seeing over the next year (2010) or so.

Action movie posters in general are typically very interesting – captured images of fight scenes, guns, explosions and of course the odd flash of naked flesh are all things that express action films well. The design of a movie poster is commonly underestimated – even with the internet and social media sites, posters are still one of the most effective ways of advertising a new blockbuster film.

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The Top (Incredible) Film Posters of 2009

I wanted to do something different to all the other ‘top 2009′ posts about and base one on film posters instead. We all love film posters, it’s a known fact. In this top of 2009 post we have 28 beautiful, incredible and inspiring movie posters.

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The Evolution of Movie Posters: 67 Years of Old and New

Most of us designers have a thing for movie posters; both old and new. This post compares posters to original movies and later remakes of the same story. For example, one of the posters shown below is Flight of the Phoenix; we’ll be looking at the differences between the original artwork of the 1965 film, and the modern artwork in the much more recent 2004 remake film.

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How to Design a Vintage Horror Movie Poster in Photoshop

In this tutorial I’ll be teaching you how to use basic tools and photo manipulation techniques to design a vintage looking horror movie poster similar to the classic Zombie film ‘Day of the Dead’ by George A. Romero.

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The Evolution of Halloween Movie Artwork from 1978-2009

Halloween (and the other how ever many movies they actually made!) are those kinds of movies that’ll always be remembered, whether you loved or hated them. They’ve been re-several times on VHS, DVD, and now Blu-Ray, and on top of that we saw the remake of Halloween 1 directed by Rob Zombie in 2007, which [...]

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