Friday, 18 January 2013

DESIGN FOR PRINT// Poster Inspiration

Very elegant vintage swiss air poster. Its unusual length is interesting because it really works with the length of the plane, showing off some great livery and one of the engines. Nice piece of modernist design, forward thinking and clean.

Taken to a more post-modern style wit this mock vintage look. This print is of a war era photograph with some Japanese infusion.

Cut up Hitchcock poster is inspired by his own films, screens taken directly from these. The cut up asthetic probably comes from the Saul Bass posters of that era. Here the designer has taken both old and new and combined. This superimposition of of images, a collage, is something which I would definitely use in my screenprint posters, where I will need to merge typeface and photography.


The Thing, modern take on the classic film poster with a two colour screen print. I have been searching for a few screenprint posters for this print project. What I especially like here is the clever use of the dogs shadow as the nightmarish vision of the thing,

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