Famous Movie Poster Artists
Drew struzan ˈstruːzən.
Famous movie poster artists. Born may 14 1947 is an american artist illustrator and cover designer known for his more than 150 movie posters which include the shawshank redemption blade runner mallrats as well as films in the indiana jones back to the future and star wars film series. The movie poster has come a long way from its humble hand drawn beginnings in the days of silent film evolving into a veritable art form during the golden age of cinema and the early blockbuster. It was said about his posters if we could put sprocket holes.
When briefed to create the poster campaign for danny boyle s original trainspotting movie designers mark blamire and rob o connor were given a still from the beatles biopic backbeat to use as inspiration. The motion picture a poster that is far superior to the actual film. I must confess to having bob peak posters on my wall growing up as well including his beautiful poster for one of the biggest james bond films in history the spy who loved me and the truly iconic poster for star trek.
They hated it almost as much as polygram s idea for the poster a group shot of the film s characters huddled together. Take al kallis who made poster art for 1950s monster movies particularly those of b movie mogul roger corman. Of course movie posters are original art works on their own and they are a very important part of the movie.
He created this poster for the thing literally overnight and he did it without any guidelines. Buy famous movie stars posters designed by millions of artists and iconic brands from all over the world. Customize your famous movie stars poster with hundreds of different frame options and get the exact look that you want for your wall.
Just like drew s work is so identified with star wars bob peak is heavily identified with the other sci fi favorite star trek. There s a reason drew struzan is a movie art legend. 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.
Poster designs combine different types of art and sometimes carry inspirations from famous art works. Prolific poster artist william reynold brown teased impressive special effects that the finished movie ultimately didn t match it mostly involved a giant prop hand. 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.
