Photoshop This
Adobe Photoshop and Movie Posters
The best thing and the worst thing to happen to movie poster design (and probably commercial art in general) is Adobe Photoshop. Then again, whenever a creative enterprise is changed … Read More…
Special Shoots
Photography used in Movie Posters
Movie posters are often designed using photography shot especially for the film’s one-sheet campaign and other film advertising key art. These photo shoot set-ups are known as special shoots. … Read More…
The Designer
Legendary Graphic Designer Saul Bass
We have covered various movie poster illustrators in the past, but the modern movie poster is a graphic designer’s medium. And when discussing movie poster design, the subject begins … Read More…
Stop the Presses!
Movie Poster art in newspaper ads
If you want to see where a good chunk of a film’s print marketing budget goes, open up a major newspaper like the Calendar section the Los Angeles Times… Read More…
April Fools
Hidden images and in-jokes in movie posters
In honor of April Fool’s Day, lets review a few hidden images and in-jokes found in movie posters. Artists have long hidden images, words, and other symbols in … Read More…
Making Sense of Showgirls
From Photo to Book Cover to Movie Poster
In 1992, famed Czech photographer Tono Stano (NSFW) produced an arresting black and white photograph entitled “Sense”. Stano is famous for posing models into suggestive shapes and … Read More…
British Quad
British movie posters
Unlike it’s U.S. counterpart the one-sheet, the standard UK movie poster size is known as a British Quad (or sometimes as a UK Quad or Quad Crown) and measures 40″ x … Read More…
Wild Posting
Wild Posting is “the practice of displaying multiple eye level impressions in highly visible outdoor locations in major urban centres.” Or more accurately, a group of under-paid workers driving around in the middle of night … Read More…
One-Sheet
What is a movie poster one-sheet?
A one-sheet refers to the standard U.S. sized 27″x41″ movie poster, usually printed on paper stock. Modern posters are rolled, while most older (pre-1985) film posters were folded. Modern … Read More…
Credit Where Credit Is Due
The most common question we get:
“What is the font used for the credits at the bottom of a movie poster?”
The short answer: There is no one particular font used for movie poster credits.… Read More…
Equal Likeness
Movie poster actor clauses
The phrase equal likeness is common term and often an overriding factor in the design and creation of movie poster art. Basically equal likeness is the film advertising equivalent of a … Read More…
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Richard Amsel Illustration
The Indiana Jones film series has had a great history of movie posters, including impressive work by Drew Struzan. The best poster from the series remains the very first release poster for … Read More…
Big Heads Floating in the Sky
The Top Movie Poster Cliché
Stop us if you have seen this poster composition before: Large images of movie star faces (often of a couple), with a small scene (usually at the bottom of the … Read More…
