Following his higher calling in movie posters, it’s no wonder that Italian illustrator, Angelo Cesselon, later moved onto drawing portraits of saints and other religious paintings for churches since looking at his beautiful work can be somewhat of a religious experience.
I’m not sure if he was repenting for all of his past pretty Marilyn Monroe depictions — regardless, his many artful creations are for the ages. (via Dominique Besson)
Daniel Levy of NYC’s Illustraction Gallery has a nice little write-up this week on Hans Hillman, a prolific German movie poster designer who created over 130 movie posters, most famously The Maltese Falcon…
Ryan Gosling appears to be doing his best Steve McQueen in this weekend’s high-testosterone octane release, Drive.
Btw, here’s a few other scenic drives, including the classic Taxi Driver one-sheet, which features the graphic stylings of Guy Peellaert)…
Georgii and Vladimir Stenberg, aka The Stenberg Brothers, a pair of Russian Constructivist poster designers from the 1920’s, were largely forgotten until a 1997 MoMA exhibit restored their adventurous avant-garde legacy.
And this summer, The Tony Shafrazi Gallery in NYC once again revisited their finely-constructed prints (which I unfortunately missed!) — but it’s still available for viewing on the website. (via Posteropolis)
Here’s two sketchy one-sheets from 1960s design studs, Bob Peak and Paul Crifo, respectively, that will make you see red…
Fritz Lang’s 1927 sci-fi classic, Metropolis, could hardly be more timely now with today’s troubling economy pitting wealthy owners versus the working class.
And with the ten-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks this weekend, I thought it fitting to commemorate the work of Russian-born costume designer — yes, I said, costume designer — Boris Bilinsky (not to be confused with that other Belinsky), who also apparently dabbled in designing movie posters as seen below by these one-sheet architectural marvels that he constructed way back in the roaring 20s. (MoviePosterDB)
ImpAwards has all the info if you want to pre-order a new movie poster book by 60s and 70s design icon, Bob Peak…
Leanne Shapton has an eye-opening illustration essay on black-and-white movie rentals in today’s The New York Times…
Wilson McLean is a Scottish-born illustrator who started his illustrious career in England before moving onto the United States where his rich, jazzy portraits were freely adopted by the New York City advertising world.
In 2010, he was inducted into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame — and though his design work was most frequently used on album and magazine covers — he did have a one-hit wonder in the movie poster biz with this dreamy, melodic one-sheet for the 1978 James Toback film, Fingers.
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