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How many of us can relate the success of a movie with an eye-grabbing poster? Anyone? Well, the answer hides in viewers' negligence to the fact that they are secretly being tricked by all those poster designers who are behind the eye-catching poster designs. The art of movie poster designing is as old as movie making itself and most of people are not aware of the size of the budgets film-makers are allocating for getting an out-of-the-box and movie poster design made, keeping in view the budding trends in poster design, a very important factor for creative branding and marketing of a movie.

According to Tony Seiniger, a celebrated movie poster designer and illustrator, "There are two rules when it comes to creating a movie poster. It needs to be different - that'll get it attention. Second, the poster has to tell its story in mere seconds. After all, most people will be driving past it at 30 miles per hour. Try get two hours of entertainment down into a simple graphic you can read in three seconds."

An iconic movie poster is one that is based on public demands and a successful poster designer knows how to achieve those in a poster. There are various principles involved that guarantee a classic poster design and it does include the basic principles of typeface classification. Portraying movie moods through typography can be tricky sometimes and playing with its elements in a controlled environment is an art a good poster designer is master at.

Let's divulge details about the icons of movie poster designing in alphabetical order who have set cinematic examples for the ages to come...

1. Akiko Stehrenberger

People call her the poster girl. Such is Akiko Stehrenberger's passion for designing movie posters and she is master of her art. Akiko moved to Los Angeles from New York in 2004 to work as a freelance editorial illustrator. She got her big break when she was hired by Crew Creative advertising agency as a designer and art director. After working for two consecutive two years at the agency, Akiko decided to quit and continue as a freelancer and is now working for many agencies including Crew Creative.

Best Work: Funny Games, After The Storm

"I really had to fight and scratch to keep it as simple as it is," says Akiko of her restrained design for Funny Games. "The client really wanted blood on Naomi's face, or a white glove pulling at her hair. I believed so strongly that it was more eerie not knowing what was making her tearful... Eventually my stubbornness paid off!"

2. Andrew Bannister

Best Work: Insyriated

Andrew Bannister is a London based artist who studied fine art at Nottingham Polytechnic and Chelsea College of Art. Working in higher education since 1993, he currently teaches on the BA and MA fine art programs at City & Guilds of London Art School.

Andrew has rightfully portrayed the haplessness of a mother of three trapped inside her home in modern-day Damascus. The poster shows the city around the house reduced to rubble and the streets in a war zone. All in all, the poster is as intense as the movie itself.

3. Bill Gold

Bill Gold, a former graphic designer, is best known for thousands of film poster designs. The first movie poster of his career, that spans overs 70 years, was for Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942). Since then he has worked with some of Hollywood's greatest filmmakers and has made some iconic poster designs for movies like Casablanca, A Clockwork Orange, The Exorcist, Mystic River etc.

Best Work: Casablanca, The Exorcist

Classic, simple elegance! Although, Casablanca was not the first poster that labored the big red lettering in title treatment and many floating heads in one poster, it just happens to be the best one. Thanks to the shot of color in the upper segment and artistic treatment, it still seems cool irrespective of ages.

4. Bob Peak

An illustrator, best known for innovative design in the development of modern movie poster designing, Bob Peak got his first job in the McCormick Armstrong's art department after majoring in geology at the University of Wichita. In 1951, Peak graduated from Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles, California. It was in 1953 that Peak had moved into New York City and had landed in an advertising campaign of Old Hickory Whiskey and no sooner than later, his work started appearing in major magazines.

In 1961, Peak was hired by United Artists studio to design movie posters for West Side Story. In the same year, Peak was named Artist of the Year by the Artists Guild of New York. Peak's success had eventually led him to design posters for Bill Gold, especially for top-budget musicals such as Camelot and My Fair Lady. He created the poster art for first five Star Trek films, Superman (1978) and some other major flicks. He is a recipient of a number of awards including; eight Awards of Excellence and four Society of Illustrators gold medals, the latter of which got him inducted into their Hall of Fame.

Best Work: Modern Movie Poster Designing

5. Claire Curtis

Although she is a newbie considering her 5-year term in film industry as a poster designer, but Claire Curtis has made her identity through well-crafted movie posters. To her credit, Claire has over 50 campaigns and she specialises in providing everything from carefully crafted concepts to branding and print ready designs for all aspects of campaign creations.

Best Work: Kaufman's Game, Troop 301, Lemon Tree Passage

6. Drew Struzan

Born in May 1947, Drew Struzan is an American artist behind more than 150 artistic movie posters like Indiana Jones, Back to the Future, Star Wars film series, Thor, Harry Potter etc. The graduate of Art Center College of Design, his work is not restricted to the posters only and he loves to paint album covers, collectibles, and book covers.

Best Work: The Thing, Harry Potter, Thor

According to Aaron Blecha, artist and animator, "A simple, mysterious, terrifying design. With its stripped-down, cold colour palette, bold graphic ice forms, the poster only hints at what the movie is about and what The Thing is. It follows the old rule of not showing the creature and lets your imagination do the work. But once you've experienced the film, you realise how perfect the poster design is."

7. Howard Terpning

The career of Howard Terpning, a graduate of Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and American Academy of Art, spans over 25 years as an illustrator. Apart from creating magazine covers, story illustrations and advertising art for Reader's Digest, Time, Newsweek, etc, he has completed over 80 posters for the movies like The Sound of Music, Cleopatra, The Guns of Navarone, Doctor Zhivago, Gone with the Wind's 1967 re-release and The Sand Pebbles.

Best Work: Gone With The Wind

The original poster for Gone with the Wind was a conventional shot of the lead couple, Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh, whose idea was conceived by freelance art director Tom Jung. But the poster that accompanied the 1967 re-release was a painting of the same shot by Howard Terpning which eventually became a cinematic history.

8. Karine Savard

A graduate of Concordia University in Art of Design, Karine Savard has been awarded Palme d'Or in Cannes for making advertising posters for award-winning films. She is a collaborator with several producers and distributors of fiction and documentary films such as Micro_scope, Christal Films, Seville, Fun Films, Metropolis Films, Les Films on March 3rd, COOP Vidéo, Mongrel Media, Participant Media, VisitFilms, Organic Folkets, Filmcoopi, Dreampixies. Her posters have won Communication Arts Award - Illustration Annual, a Lux Award and were selected at the Mexico Poster Biennale.

Best Work: Blue Is The Warmest Color, Infiltration

Blue is Karine's favorite color and she plays with different hues of the color in most of her creations. What a better color to show power be it a love story or an intense drama. Coupled with right usage of fonts and typography, all her designs are high on creativity and imagery skills.

9. Kyle Lambert

Kyle Lambert is a British visual artist of modern age truly utilizing his photorealistic skills and the latest technology in poster designing. After studying Fine Art Painting and Illustration with Animation at Manchester Metropolitan University, he came to limelight with a time-lapse video of his 2013 painting of Morgan Freeman.

Best Work: Introducing Photorealistic Tech In Poster Designing

Stranger Things, 2016's biggest TV series and its gripping poster had everyone's attention. Kyle's was briefed to create a reminiscent of classic, hand-painted movie artwork and he created this using an iPad Pro and Procreate.

10. James Verdesoto

New York designer James Verdesoto graduated from the Parsons School of Design in New York City right after winning a national contest to design the theatrical movie poster for the 1981 horror flick The Burning. The big win drove him to start an in-house creative services department at Miramax Films. As the Creative Director he created campaigns for hits such as Pulp Fiction, The Crying Game, The Piano and over 200 other films.

Since 1992, he has been associated with Indika Entertainment Advertising as co-founder and has created over 400 movie posters for Sony, Warner Bros., Universal, Fox, The Weinstein Company, Miramax Films, New Line, HBO, and many others. His poster for Ocean's 11 was hailed as "the perfect poster" by Entertainment Weekly.

Best Work: Pulp Fiction, The English Patient, The Ocean's Eleven

"The Pulp Fiction poster has been hailed by many, actually, as one of the best movie posters of past 20 years," Verdesoto told Fox News last year. "But that's for others to decide, not for me. I'm certainly appreciative when people appreciate my work."

Henry Hargreaves, pro photographer says, "Pulp Fiction is the definitive movie poster for me. For over a year I had fantasies about what this film was about. I knew it had a hot brunette who sits on her bed reading paperback with a gun, so it had to be cool. But the true test of a great movie poster was how it transcended trends. It stayed up on my wall long after seeing the film, leaving home and was eventually only taken down last year when my parents sold the house."

11. Jay Shaw

Once a freelance designer, Jay Shaw now is the creative director at Mondo, poster boutique arm of the Alamo Drafthouse, and is famous for his out of the world poster ideas. According to some, he masters the art of summing up the whole movie in a few stroke of colors.

Best Work: The Neon Demon

Shaw went for a devilish approach in this poster design with dripping liquid thus rightfully demonstrating the threat that is portrayed in the movie. His mastery comes into play in the gray background of the poster with the lead of the movie, an aspiring model Jesse (Elle Fanning), her liveliness and youth and how she is are taken away by a group of women obsessed with beauty.

12. John Alvin

The legendary artist John Alvin came into being with his first movie poster for Mel Brook's Blazing Saddles. In a career that spanned for 35 years, Alvin was known to hide his signature in famous film posters. He worked for directors George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Mel Brooks, Blake Edwards and Ridley Scott. For all of them, Alvin was a preferred artist for campaign art and movie posters.

According to Alvin, "My work creates the promise of a great experience."

Best Work: E.T., Lion King, The Lion King

Alex Mallinson, digital artist and animator, says: "E.T gave us two iconic images: the Elliot-on-flying-BMX symbol that graces later posters (and the Amblin logo) and the image of E.T. and Elliot's fingers coming together on a starry backdrop. The former image embodies the Spielbergian modern urban fantasy but the latter is the more interesting."

13. John Solie

The Californian artist John Solie has designed over 200 film posters during his long career and has created art work for some major films, like the academy award winning Ryan's Daughter and the cult classic Soylent Green starring Charlton Heston.

Best Work: Stingray, Ryan's Daughter

The poster speaks volumes about Solie's imaginary and creative skills and how tactfully he compiled film's story in a few strokes. The portray of expressions clearly depicts the love nature of the movie.

14. Ralph Steadman

Ralph Steadman, renowned for his political and social caricatures, cartoons and picture books, is an award winning Welsh artist best known for his work with American author Hunter S. Thompson. Steadman started his career as a freelancer for big names like the Daily Telegraph, The New York Times and Rolling Stone. Apart from other awards, Steadman is the recipient of Illustrator of the Year by the American Institute of Graphic Arts in 1979.

Best Work: Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, Where The Buffalo Roam

A poster for a film adaptation of a Hunter S. Thompson book seemed almost predictable, keeping in view the Steadman's surreal, explosive style.

15. Robert Mcginnis

Robert Edward McGinnis, an artist and illustrator, is known for illustrating more than 1,200 paperback book covers, and over 40 movie posters. Breakfast at Tiffany's was his first film poster. Barbarella, and several James Bond and Matt Helm films came along his career journey that started as an apprentice at the Walt Disney studios. A graduate in Fine Arts from Ohio State University, he began his career with Dell Publishing drawing a variety of paperback covers.

Best Work: Breakfast At Tiffany's. James Bond 007

16. Saul Bass

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Saul Bass was best known for his design of motion-picture title sequences, film posters, and logo designs. Bass worked for some of Hollywood's most prominent filmmakers during his 40-year career Otto Preminger, Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, Martin Scorsese and Stanley Kubrick.. His major break in movie poster designing came from the movie Carmen Jones.

Best Work: Vertigo, Anatomy Of A Murder, Love In The Afternoon

As the artist was huge fan of using flat colors and jagged figures, many call the Vertigo poster pure Bass. Hand-cut typography was, of course, another element that was so Bass(y).

Jaunty typography and bold emblematic graphics were the trademarks of Saul Bass work which sometime proved to be ideally fit for rom-coms. Same goes for Billy Wilder's Love In The Afternoon where the flat black surface looks imposing.

17. Steven Chorney

Being an artist, graphic designer and illustrator, Steven Chorney has his prime focus in the motion picture industry. With no formal education in art and design, Steven depends on his imaginary skills and has become the primary choice of most of the directors since he got his big break for the poster of Lassiter.

Best Work: Lassiter, Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade, Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation

18. Tomasz Opasinski

Currently employed as Senior Art Director at BLT & Associates, Inc., Tomasz Opasinski is the author of many articles about artistic and technical aspects of design. Also a teacher and a mentor, he has co-worked on projects such as AeonFlux, Bourne Ultimatum, Cars, Hellboy II, I Am Legend... and many others for Seiniger Advertising Group, The Ant Farm, Trailer Park, Crew Creative Advertising, BLT & Associates, Inc.

Best Work: Oblivion

The brilliant poster that captures the feelings of loneliness, isolation and rebirth. An image that portrays the feelings in style. Actor's name is typed in the top middle, a right move that makes one read it from far along with the movie's name. It's simply very graphic.

19. Tony Seiniger

Tony Seiniger has been designing promotional posters for films for 30 years. Although he prefers designing advertisements and campaigns more than designing movie posters and does not call himself an artist, he is the man behind some of the most incredible film posters. Who can forget the poster of Jaws, one that still resonates decades later.

Best Work: Jaws

Nobody denies the fact that Jaws poster is the most instantly recognisable image of a shark rising from the depths to attack a bathing beauty. Seiniger spent six months to come up with such a perfect piece of art.

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Someone has rightly said, "First impression is the last impression." Same way or the other, a film is largely based on a good poster as it lands it a sense of credibility and ensures high number of audience especially on the opening day (as viva voce jumps in at later stages). What you like and what we have missed? Do not forget to mention your favorite movie posters and designers before moving further. Believe it or not but we do impart your suggestions in our blogs.

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Quick summary ↬ Movie posters are art and, unfortunately, the forgotten one. In the early years of cinema history, they were used just like advertising material. Displayed in theatres only, movie posters had the same function as a menu in a restaurant: what feast can I enjoy this evening? Nowadays, movie posters play a big role in cinema memorabilia collection. They have lost the "informative" tone to wear a more artistic and decorative dress. We want to change it with this post.

Movie posters are art and, unfortunately, the forgotten one. In the early years of cinema history, they were used just like advertising material. Displayed in theaters only, movie posters had the same function as a menu in a restaurant: what feast can I enjoy this evening? Nowadays, movie posters play a big role in cinema memorabilia collection. They have lost the "informative" tone to wear a more artistic and decorative dress. We want to change it with this post.

Made in many different sizes and versions, and released in different moments all along a movie's life, posters immortalize in one static image the feeling and the atmosphere of a motion picture. Some posters can be dark or try to frighten the audience, others bedazzling with bright colors; some can be someway informative, while others can be fully teasing and may provide you only the date when movie will be released, even if you may not know what the movie is about.

In this post we present you a showcase of 50 beautiful movie posters. We went through different decades of movie history and different genre, different graphical approach, colors and style. Movies the posters are about may be famous or not, this is not the point. Movie posters put together the love for for two different visual arts: cinema and graphics. Enjoy!

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50 Beautiful Movie Posters

Star Wars (1977)

Walk the line (2005)

Grindhouse (2007)

The Spirit (Upcoming, December 2008)

Vacancy (2007)

Moulin Rouge (2001)

V For Vendetta (2006)

La Feria De Cepillin (2008)

The Thing (1982)

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street (2007)

Dexter (TV-show)

The Dark Knight

Kill Bill (2003)

Fearless (2006)

Cloverfield (2008)

The Birds (1963)

A Clockwork Orange (1971)

Mean Streets (1973)

Amadeus (1984)

THX 1138 (1971)

Pulp Fiction (1994)

28 Weeks Later (2007)

The U.S. vs. John Lennon (2006)

Forrest Gump (1994)

Day Watch (2007)

Vertigo (1958)

Invasion (2008)

Planet of the apes (2001)

The Memory Thief (2007)

The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

Death Proof (2007)

The Good German (2006)

Perfume (2007)

The Shining (2008)

W (2008)

American Beauty (1999)

The Bank Job (2007)

Man With One Red Shoe (1985)

The Dark Crystal (1982)

Excalibur (1981)

Unforgiven (1992)

Zodiac (2007)

Dr. Strangelove (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb) (1964)

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Rocky (1976)

Last Click

Blestenation (2007)

The Fountain (2006)
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Minimalist movie posters have taken the internet by storm. You can find them for sale at online print stores and all over Pinterest. They might already grace your house or office walls with visual inspiration.

Movie poster redesigns are popular among designers and non-designers alike. Taking a story and visualizing it into a poster-sized graphic is no easy feat. New and seasoned designers recreate classic movie posters to brush up on skills and show off their creative prowess. For example, artist Peter Majarich redesigned a movie poster every day for an entire year, using the hashtag #amovieposteraday for social media coverage. Some film posters have been redesigned numerous times, like "The Shining" and "Titanic."

Let's look at some of our favorite designers who have taken it upon themselves to create minimalist movie posters, plus some illustrative and conceptual posters.

Minimalist Movie Posters

Chungkong

Chungkong is a graphic designer and artist from the Netherlands who has designed over 800 minimalist movie posters. He sells these posters online and makes a killing. His conceptualizations come in all forms: some are taken from the story of the movie, others from the set design and some from characters themselves. Chungkong's minimalist movie posters are a wonderful representation of what a talented artist can achieve with the use of his imagination and effective branding.

All of Chungkong's minimal movie posters follow a template of his own design. He uses the same font and title layout for all the posters. He also uses a textured overlay and his signature graces the bottom right hand corner every time. And to top it off, all posters include a famous quote from the respective movie in the bottom half of the design. This practice creates a common thread throughout his work, making his posters branded and unique at the same time. Here are some of our favorites:

The Lord of the Rings

Wonder Woman

This 2017 redesign of the "Wonder Woman" movie poster features a minimalist representation of the outfit with the original W shape over the bust. The logo for the title keeps the original double W as the main element. Chungkon's minimalist poster uses that element and turns it into the most important aspect of his poster, along with the white star which represents the United States.

The Walk

"The Walk" is the true story of Philippe Petit, a French tight-rope walker who astounded the world by sneaking into the World Trade Center towers as they were being built and set up his line from the South to the North tower and walked across. The difference between the original and the redesigned poster is the point of view, yet the stark blue in the new poster is what gives the new design that minimalist feel.
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Arrival

This film tells the story of a race of aliens who arrive on Earth in order to send a message to humanity. Their language is difficult to decipher, as it consist of smoke circles. The original poster shows the ship, helicopters and the characters, but the minimalist one shows only the ship and one of the alien messages.

Misery

The Guardians of the Galaxy

A huge part of the film " The Guardians of the Galaxy " is the music. The soundtrack is not only one of the best in recent film history, it's also a big part of the story. The setting for " Guardians of the Galaxy" is the not-so-distant future. The main character is half human and carries a 90s style walkman with a tape that has a sticker in shades of orange stuck to it. This minimalist movie poster depicts the tape and the secondary characters' silhouettes in the same shades as the tape.

Borat

Borat, one of the most "uncomfortable" movies of all time, is a cult classic. Hilarious, and also completely inappropriate, the movie begins with Borat coming to America from Kazakhstan and making an unforgettable impression on everyone he encounters. Filmed as a documentary, the people interviewed by Borat have no idea that it's really the comedic journey of actor Sacha Baron Cohen. This minimalist movie poster might look like just a green shape over a pink background but it really depicts one of the most hilarious moments of the film when Borat wears a mankini on the beach.

Dirty Dancing
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The Shawshank Redemption

One of the most acclaimed films in movie history is "The Shawshank Redemption," a story about a man who was imprisoned for a murder he did not commit and spent 19 years digging a tunnel through his cell wall with a rock hammer. A central plot twist of the movie is cleverly represented in this minimalist redesign with negative space in the shape of a pick hammer and a figure chipping away at a wall.

Matt Owen

The Breakfast Club

This classic John Hughes' movie is brilliantly summarized in this minimalist design with just a handful of circles and rectangles, which represent the main characters of the movie sitting in Saturday afternoon detention. Don't miss the clever legend and creative use of color to symbolize how each character is labelled by the rest of society.

Mads H. Svanegaard

Mission Impossible

Another prime example of the "less is more" philosophy, this minimalist movie poster does a fine job of using as little ink as possible to portray one of the most memorable scenes of this espionage film.

Doaly

Interstellar

In this Christopher Nolan film set in a dystopian future, the Earth is suffering from a global crop blight and a team of astronauts is sent to explore the universe to find a new home for the human race. This minimalist movie poster designed by Doaly succinctly summarizes the premise of the film with just a few lines and shapes in three solid colors: red, black and white.

Matt Needle

Inception

In this mind-bending fantasy thriller, a thief steals information by entering into the dreams of others. This minimalist movie poster by renowned U.K. artist Matt Needle pithily represents the intricacies of the human psyche with a complex maze in the shape of a human head.

Hunter Langston

The Help

Oscar-nominated movie "The Help," a film about a young writer who tells the story of African-American maids during the Jim Crow era, is efficiently portrayed in this minimalist poster. With just black-and-white icons and a well-placed title, this movie poster summarizes one of the central subplots of the movie.

Calm the Ham

The Silence of the Lambs

A site created by "designers trying to fight monotony of the 9 to 5 with original contemporary art," Calm The Ham took on the challenge of creating their own version of "The Silence of the Lambs" movie poster. With just a black shape representing Hannibal Lecter's mask over a textured orange background, this minimalist poster memorializes one of the most representative scenes of the movie.

Fight Club

This cult classic about a discontented white-collar worker who starts a fight club with a sociopathic soap maker is concisely summarized in this minimalist poster with just a bar of soap. For those who watched the movie, you know that soap plays an important symbolic role in the movie, going beyond a mere cleansing agent to a critique of capitalism.

Peter Majarich

In 2016, designer Peter Majarich took on the challenge of redesigning a movie poster per day, for an entire year. He shared each of the 366 posters in his collection through the Tumblr account he created for this purpose. Some posters use mostly text, while others employ unique imagery and photography to depict the designer's minimalist conceptualizations. Here is a collection of our favorite designs by Peter Majarich.

The Hunger Games

The coming-of-age movie "The Hunger Games" became a cult classic quite quickly due to its unforgettable plot and do-or-die storyline. In this redesigned minimalist poster, an arrow head is used in place of the letter "A" over a gray slate background, which represents the stark political situation in this invented world.

Fifty First Dates

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This classic film starring the ultimate comedy duo Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore is about a boy trying to win over a girl who loses her memory every night when she goes to sleep. The next day, she wakes up and forgets that she ever met him. After 50 dates, he finally wins her over. This minimalist poster is so simple yet it perfectly depicts this romantic story with a happy ending.

Thelma and Louise

The cult classic Thelma and Louise is the story of two women who go on a weekend trip that turns into a whirlwind of unfortunate events. In the last scene of the film, Thelma and Louise decide to drive off a cliff and plunge to their deaths rather than be captured by the police for murdering a man who was trying to rape one of them. It's a powerful movie that has been beautifully immortalized in this minimalist movie poster.

Apocalypse Now

1984

Psycho

Moxy Creative House

These minimalist movie posters by Moxy House Creative are part of a collection called "Dress the Part." The idea behind these posters is to minimally depict a character's signature outfit using just the most important details.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Superman The Movie

We all know the story of Superman and his civilian identity Clark Kent: the only article of clothing that disguises him is a pair of glasses. This simple accessory, along with the name Christopher Reeves, is enough to bring to mind the movie "Superman," although I would have added a little bit of red to this minimalist poster.

Dumb and Dumber

Drew Carey and Jeff Daniels star in this 90s comedy about two "dumb" men who have an epic adventure after finding a suitcase full of money in their car. This minimalist movie poster depicts the two top hats they wore to a charity ball, in matching orange and light blue tuxedos.

Anchorman

Ibraheem Youssef

Bottle Rocket

Inglourious Basterds

Jamie Bolton

Jamie Bolton is a graphic designer based in London who designs minimal movie posters as a hobby. His love of film is the driving inspiration for these posters.

Home Alone

The Shining

Jurassic Park

Chris Thornley

Rocky Horror Picture Show

James Bond 007

There are plenty of "J ames Bond" films for designers to illustrate as movie posters; in this case Thornley picked " Diamonds Are Forever ." He conceptualized the title of the movie using an infinity sign made of diamonds.

Illustrative and Conceptual Movie Posters

Flore Maquin

Flore Maquin, a graphic designer and illustrator from France, has created a beautiful collection of redesigned movie posters. All her posters depict the main character of the film as the focus of the design. All her illustrative movie posters have a shiny and vibrant quality to them that make the characters come alive.

On top of these brilliant illustrations, Flore adds a special text composition with the name of the film to each poster. Feast your eyes on some of our favorites:

The Mask

Scream

In this poster for " Scream ," Flore used a border that gives the poster an antique feel. Its purpose is to memorialize the movie " Scream" as a modern cult classic and establish Drew Barrymore's expression of sheer terror as a cultural icon.

Interstellar

The Fifth Element

Hanzel Haro

Hanzel Haro invokes a darker style to his poster redesigns. He chooses powerful and intense films with interesting stories. Hanzel conceptualizes the story and illustrates the new poster with a strong image. His work is a good example of how a seasoned designer can benefit from conceptualizing an old classic and turning it into something completely new.

Hannibal

This "Hannibal" poster depicts the most important moment of the movie, even though it's a bit of a spoiler! If you managed to watch the whole film, the part where the main character feasts on his victim's brain is a scene you just can't forget.

Mad Max

Andrew Fairclough

Groundhog Day

Adam Rabalais

Adam's redesigned movie posters are illustrative and conceptual. They represent the plots of major films in a completely different light, and also include an unexpected amounts of spoilers.

A Clockwork Orange

"Singin' in the Rain" is a song that has an important role in the film " A Clockwork Orange ." This redesigned poster intertwines a violent scene in " A Clockwork Orange " with a scene from the original " Singin' in The Rain" movie. The eyeball takes a privileged position atop the street light, using the same analogy of "the all-seeing eye" depicted in the original poster.

Inside Out

Your Turn

Which of these minimalist movie posters is your favorite? Any redesigns you think should appear in this list? Let me know in the comments section below!

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