Tag Archives: posters

Beautifully Designed Gig Posters

by on March 20, 2012 in Inspiration

Usually, when designing something, you’re faced with a whole load of constraints and limitations. But it’s not always the case when you’re designing a gig poster – those constraints are often lifted and you’re allowed to be much more creative and expressive with your art.

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Eye Popping Prints by K17GRAFX

by on May 22, 2011 in Inspiration

We’ve recently had the privilege of being able to stock some amazing illustrative prints by K17GRAFX on Picmix Store!

All of the following prints are available at the store at £10 each, although some of which are in the current £6 sale! You can also get 10% off using the code exclusive to this blog – just enter “CIRCLEBOX” at checkout.

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Design Trends Used In Action Movie Posters from 1960-2010

by on February 11, 2010 in Articles, Inspiration

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

by on December 21, 2009 in Inspiration

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

by on December 2, 2009 in Inspiration

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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