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Polish Alternative Posters
NickClapper
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I had the chance to get Polish poster designer Maks Bereski to do some 'alternative poster designs' for my website and I thought I'd share them here.
Poland has a long history of minimalist posters and a lot of cinemas there still choose to design their own posters rather than using the ones that studios force on them.
Here are the ones he's cooked up so far:
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part Two
Captain America
Ghost Rider 2
Cowboys and Aliens
Hanna
The Cowboys & Aliens one is my favourite but I think they're all great!
Poland has a long history of minimalist posters and a lot of cinemas there still choose to design their own posters rather than using the ones that studios force on them.
Here are the ones he's cooked up so far:
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part Two
Captain America
Ghost Rider 2
Cowboys and Aliens
Hanna
The Cowboys & Aliens one is my favourite but I think they're all great!
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The Harry Potter one is definitely the most elliptical.
To my eyes the ideas is that it's Snape's tear falling into the pensieve but I guess it might be different things to different people.
Oh right yeah, that could well be it, I am a book fan rather than the films so it's not a tear so it didn't click with me, but now you said it, it seems obvious
I thought you were going to post something like these (Far more in the 'classic' Polish style IMO)
http://www.polishposter.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=MP
Some real beauties in there!
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&sugexp=gsih&cp=9&gs_id=q&xhr=t&q=polish+film+posters&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&biw=1512&bih=757&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi
Maks' posters are definitely minimalist and not hand drawn but they're very classy (or at least to me they are).
Melancholia Alternative Poster
For people who haven't seen the film it's a wonderful piece and this poster pretty neatly captures its spirit of isolation.
Alternative Poster for Moon
Loving some of these alternate posters, some really brilliant artwork :cool:
Thanks for posting up the links guys, enjoyed looking through them
Glad you enjoyed them! There are some amazing alternative posters out there. I've actually found a couple of people through Twitter who are brilliant and, if I can, I'll post their versions here as well some time.
Maks' latest, and possibly best, poster is a reworking of the Transformers franchise with a bit of genuine quality!
I agree that some work better than others and I'm not too fond of the HP one myself (like you I think Cowboys and Aliens is the tops).
The latest is a curious one for The Skin I Live In by Pedro Almodovar...
I reckon most people who've seen the film will really dig this alternative poster for Buried with Ryan Reynolds...
Here's an alternative poster for Contagion! Something spooky for Halloween I guess...
Whats wrong with the original movie posters ? 100 Times better than these rubbish plain ones
Hmm... I think I have to disagree. There are some modern posters that are very good, don't get me wrong, but a lot of them seem to miss the idea that poster design should be an art form in itself. Drew Struzan's stuff and the Saul Bass style designs are so amazing that it seems a shame that many movies, especially blockbusters, resort to crappy photoshop montages of their star actors.
I think Maks does a really interesting job. Some of it's a little hit and miss and the minimalist style is not to everyone's liking (although Moon director Duncan Jones and Buried director Rodrigo Cortes have both contacted me to express how much they like his designs). If you want to see really interesting modern poster design that might change your mind about the subject then I recommend you check out Olly Moss who has really spearheaded the burgeoning alternative poster scene.
I too am sick and tired of lousy 'shop and floating heads, but they're obviously effective in selling the film, which in the mainstream is the key issue. But as you say, they're not all bad. Nice to see some interesting minimalism in some major releases - the US one sheets for The King's Speech and Rise of the Planet of the Apes spring to mind (Caeser's moody gaze a winner here).
You're definitely right; first and foremost a poster is there to sell the film.
Still, I don't think it's redundant to make alternative posters that are intended as works of art rather than commercial spreads. Sure, pretty much no one is going to watch Buried on the strength of Maks' poster or Tower Heist on the strength of Olly Moss' but they're still a fascinating way of looking at poster design.
I find it amazingly satisfying when I see a really clever, well designed poster.
Check out Maks' poster for the new Tintin movie here!
An alternative poster for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy! Click, click, click!/
Trouble today is all the posters do is advertise the people in it, not the actual story, whereas - especially the C&A poster - that really tells you the storyline. Shame though that the film either has to rely on the cast (which sometimes means its not the best of films) or just doesn't have the guts to do something like the above - but the American audience, which is probably the biggest, would hate these type of posters, they want something in your face and something that doesn't require a bit of thinking - just bam! look at me! (not saying every American btw...) and so others have either just gone along with it and have to put up with it or have just got used to the American style. These posters are so refreshing.
No offence to the artist but it just looks exactly like a TinTin book cover. I was expecting something a lot more original than that.
Don't think there's much skill on display given his other work.