ALTERNATIVE MOVIE POSTERS
I have a big love for film and movie posters are part of why I got into graphic design in the first place. From time to time I enjoy creating
alternative renditions of popular film posters to explore new aesthetics and ideas that draw me in as a designer.
THE BRUTALIST
My vision for this poster was to channel one of my favorite
design aesthetics: Polish film posters from the 60's and 70's.
Artists such as Waldemar Swierzy, Elzbieta Procka, and Leszek Żebrowski
inspire me with their ability to utilize minimal elements to communicate
something so much larger about the film's overall themes.
Their use of colors and often times surrealist illustrations bring a
very ominous but cool vibe to their posters that I really admire.
Being Polish myself, I love connecting with my family's heritage
through art and trying to continue it's stylistic legacy while also
developing my own approach to design. The film's story surrounding
the American dream seemed like fertile ground for me to try and
bring some of those Polish influences to the canvas.
A COMPLETE UNKNOWN
I set out to make a poster focused on mixed typography and
a minimal silhouette shape while also drawing some inspiration
from a pseudo-punk aesthetic. I often like to explore concepts from
a minimal perspective, aiming to only utilize 1-3 colors in a palette and
discovering the wealth of information we can signal to the viewer
with as little visual information as possible. I used the title's "A" as the
frame, used "Complete" to illustrate the title character's hair, and
a question mark to signify "Unknown" and draw the ear and neck
of the character's head.
PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE
I was inspired by a series of early bauhaus posters which drew me to
doing my own take on their aesthetic with this particular film poster.
Just like the film, I wanted to illustrate a sort of quiet and meditative
beauty. I love how the colors of fire: red, orange, and yellow, also
work analogous to colors we associate with fall, a season noted for
it's own unique pensive qualities. All those aspects I feel help speak
to the deeper themes of the film.
NOSFERATU
I wanted to illustrate an evil that is both ancient and ominous with
my take on "Nosferatu". The Jouineau Bourduge poster for Stanley
Kubrick's "Barry Lyndon" inspired the overall look for this poster.
I utilized stills from the film and digitally drew the silhouettes in
Illustrator to create the centerpiece of the design and then
added the vintage paper textures in Photoshop.
CONCLAVE
This particular poster's look was influenced by some advertising I had
seen in the athletic sportswear world. Conclave's plot tackling an
ancient tradition set against a modern world felt like it could play well
with a similar juxtaposition in design aesthetics. I used a classical
painting and a clean serif font to illustrate a similar pairing of two
seemingly opposite elements.
ANORA
I was looking to create a poster that centered around typography
doing most of the heavy lifting and relied less on visual images. I find it
especially admirable when an artist can design words that are not only
a vehicle for information but also something that serves as a stimulating
visual for the eye. I found an elegant script font to use as the main title
and an equally elegant serif to pair with it to mirror the film's opulent
elegance. I also used some classical religious imagery to echo it's focus
themes of love and marriage.
MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO
I love My Own Private Idaho's take on a Shakespearean tale set against
the modern backdrop of Americana. I placed a motorcycle and medieval
helmet in the center to illustrate the two aesthetics while making use of
an old road map as the background for the poster. I drew upon the
color palette of the artwork done by Edmund Lewandowski and Maciej
Mankowski for the Polish variant of the film and was also inspired to
do the title partly in a hand painted look because of the duo's own
illustrations for the film's poster.
THE SECRET HISTORY
This design is more of a reimagining of a novel as a cinematic thriller.
"The Secret History" centers on a group of college students caught up
in a murder mystery as they struggle to keep their lives together.
I wanted to use the scene where one of the friends falls to their
death spurring the book's central plot as the focal point for the
poster. A silhouette of a figure falling against a backdrop of Grecian
statues to echo the ancient history the students study, and then
behind them the tangled web of lies and deceit that they weave.
Graphic Design / Video Editing / Audio Production
Alternative Movie Posters
