Sam's myth: OLLY MOSS AND THE MINIMALIST MOVIE POSTER. A few words about the "minimalist" movie poster movement that's been spreading like a virus around the web for the past 2 years. In late 2008, the young artist from the UK named Olly Moss gained rapid-fire recognition for executing a simple but brilliant postmodern design concept: taking the legendary Marber grid-- the graphic template for book covers released by Penguin in the 60's and 70's-- and fashioning "new" imaginary covers for classic video games.
Olly quickly went on to prove that he had more to offer the design world than a great eye for the perfect mash-up, posting a series of self-initiated movie posters composed in black, white and red. Around this time I decided that Olly was my hero, combining his love for (and skill with) clean, effective, retro-inspired design with iconic subjects of popular culture. It was just what I wanted to do, but he was doing it first, and better (and younger). M.S. Mehmet Gozetlik's movie posters advertising brands and products as leads: Minimalist Movie Posters with Hidden Symbolism. While minimal designs in movie posters have always existed they seem to have come back with a vengeance in the last year. Especially online, where fans have been making revamped versions of posters using a minimalist style. They are expressive without being as busy as the traditional glossy, photomanipulated posters that we have always seen lining the outside of movie theaters for years.
Another popular style that is coming back in to style is symbolism. Rather than throwing the image into stark relief there are more subtle cues hidden within even the stark backgrounds of minimalist design. This makes for some great looks when it comes to movie posters, because they provide something a little different, but just as fun. Here are ten examples of minimalist movie posters that use hidden symbolism to get their point across. 1. This has to be one of the most minimalist movie posters I have ever seen. 2. This Tim Burton classic has remained one of the most beloved films of all time. 3. 4. 5. 50 Beautiful Movie Posters. Greatest classic film posters. 10 Visual Motifs that American Science Fiction Borrowed from Anime. A few notes.
Cronenberg's "Scanners" is probably the original power-up movie. Dated: 1981 (7 years before "Akira" the movie and a year before "Akira" the manga), it ends in a slow-motion sequence of bursting veins, screaming, flaming energy, and exploding body parts which was adopted in Anime much later. John Woo is notable for his use of slow-motion and while not the originator, he's obviously the heaviest influence on the action genre — far more than anime. It's a little weird to point out that Ridley Scott created the dystopic neo-city visual aesthetic...and then turn around and give credit to the people who BORROWED FROM HIM.
The "bolt of energy" was probably first used by Gene Roddenberry in Star Trek. A decent predecessor to the cyborg woman used in anime is Maria's doppelganger from Fritz Lang's Metropolis (complete with the signature "bob" haircut). But half of this article is accurate, so that's pretty good. TOP-100 popular fonts for free download. - Choose your own font!
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Constructivism (art) Constructivism was an artistic and architectural philosophy that originated in Russia beginning in 1919, a rejection of the idea of autonomous art. The movement was in favour of art as a practice for social purposes. Constructivism had a great effect on modern art movements of the 20th century, influencing major trends such as the Bauhaus and De Stijl movements. Its influence was pervasive, with major impacts upon architecture, graphic and industrial design, theatre, film, dance, fashion and to some extent music. Photograph of the first Constructivist Exhibition, 1921. The term Construction Art was first used as a derisive term by Kazimir Malevich to describe the work of Alexander Rodchenko in 1917. IZO, the Commissariat's artistic bureau, was managed during the Russian Civil War mainly by Futurists, who published the journal Art of the Commune. Agitprop poster by Mayakovsky. The constructivists tried to create works that would make the viewer an active viewer of the artwork.
35 Beautiful Vintage and Retro Photoshop Tutorials. Advertisement By Jacob Gube With the recent post on retro and vintage in modern web design1, it’s time to put the theory into practice. We’ve scoured the Web to find some impressive Photoshop tutorials that can help you achieve an "old-fashioned" look-and-feel in your designs. In this post, we go back to the 1900’s all theway to the 1980’s to showcase a variety of vintage- and retro-inspired designs that involve poster art, collages and graphical elements.
You may want to take a look at the following related posts: Without further ado, we present 35 high-quality vintage and retro Adobe Photoshop tutorials that may help your design… well, travel back in time. Vintage and Retro Photoshop Tutorials Colorization Tutorial7This short tutorial showcases a method for colorizing a black and white photo to achieve an aged, vintage look.
Wicked-Worn Vintage Pop Art Design9Mesh vintage pop art with grunge to create a unique mash-up of the two popular design styles. Further Resources (vf) Footnotes. Photoshop vintage effect. Back in October I took this photo, in front of our house. A cool scene, bright colors and a double rainbow. After seeing this picture on my Flickr page, I received an e-mail from Marco who asked me about the post process of this image. Now here is my answer… Choose your image carefully First of all I need to mention that some pictures are better suitable than others. It's a good thing to experiment a lot and find out if the result is to your liking. Btw, not all settings I suggest are written in stone. Add contrast and saturation Place the image in a separate layer. Adjust curves Add another adjustement layer. Select Green from the Channel dropdown menu and adjust the curve as shown in the image above. Now select Blue from the Channel dropdown menu and adjust the curve as shown in the image above.
Add Vignette effect Select the layer with your photo and go to the Filter menu and select "Convert for Smart Filters". Now go to the Filter menu and select Distort > Lens Correction. The final touch. Photoshop Tutorials » Creating A Retro Grunge Poster. This tutorial is an add on from the Poster article the other day, we will create a Retro/Grunge style poster using the pen tool some textures and playing with text to make it look more retro, What We Are Going To Achieve Step 1 – Create A New Document First of all as always create a new document using the sizes 750 x 1000, this size is suitable for a poster design. Step 2 – Grab The Pen Tool Now you need to grab the pen tool and start drawing some shapes, first set your foreground colour to and draw a shape the same as below to get perfect 45 degree angles when drawing with the pen tool hold down shift and click at what you think is 45 degrees and it will make it straight: Now continue with this same method, but when drawing the rectangles make sure the shapes differ in size to add some variation within the poster, Use the colours as shown below: Now continue mixing and matching with these colours until you have something similar to below: Step 3 – Blending Options Step 5 – Adding The Text.
650+ Free Photoshop Patterns. Resources 650+ Free Photoshop Patterns May 26, 2010 by Steven Snell 71 Comments 74981 views The use of repeating patterns in Photoshop can help to produce attractive website backgrounds with very little effort, and of course patterns have other uses as well. In this post we’ll feature some of the best free patterns that are available. You’ll find some individual patterns as well as many packs of multiple patterns. Seamless Subtle Patterns (15 patterns) Powered by Shutterstock Paisley Photoshop Patterns (8 patterns) Skull Patterns (2 patterns) Floral Photoshop Patterns (4 patterns) Flower Photoshop Patterns (6 patterns) Different Texture (1 pattern) Hand-Drawn Scrolls (1 pattern) Antique Engraved (1 pattern) Stylized Clouds (1 pattern) Grungy Natural Beige Patterns (6 patterns) Grungy Natural Beige Patterns 2 (6 patterns) Floral (1 pattern) Leafy Set (3 patterns) Gypsy Garden (1 pattern) Late Bloomer (3 patterns) Hexagonal Patterns (72 patterns) Damask (1 pattern) Charcoal Damask (1 pattern) 0 shares.
Golden Age of Comic Books. Comic book publishing became a major industry. The period also saw the emergence of the comic book as a mainstream art form, and the defining of the medium's artistic vocabulary and creative conventions by its first generation of writers, artists, and editors. Origin of the term[edit] The first recorded use of the term "golden age" as applied to the comics of the 1940s was by Richard A. Lupoff in an article called "Re-Birth" in the fanzine Comic Art (issue #1: April 1960). History[edit] World War II had a significant impact on comics, as reflected in the war-themed subject matter of the time.
[citation needed] Comic books, particularly superhero comics, gained immense popularity during the war as cheap, portable, easily read tales of good triumphing over evil. Although the creation of the superhero was the Golden Age's most significant contribution to pop culture, many genres appeared on the newsstands, including humor, Western, romance, and jungle stories.
Post-war and the atomic era[edit]