ZODIAC POSTER - 70s style.
I’d taken a trip to west coast USA a couple of years back and took this photo in the back of a cab in San Franscisco. I always loved it but didn’t know what to do with it.
Much later, I was reading up on the Zodiac killer and his grip of terror on citizens of San Francisco in the 70s, after watching the Fincher movie. The case was never solved which freaked me out. The killer could still be alive and could have still been living in SF, even when I was there (very slim but got me thinking). The city had harboured this guy, hiding him.
Its the anonymity of the POV shot of the photo I took that I kept coming back to, when thinking about the locations of the film. That it could be the view of the Zodiac killer taking another cab ride as he does in the movie, possibly to another victim.
That’s the Trans-America Pyramid up ahead. So it tells you you’re in San Francisco. But it’s also sharp and pointed, recalling imagery of a murder weapon. That was the detail which sealed using this image for me. I gave the photo a 70’s film poster style detail, including the playful stepped typography. The result is subtle, right down to the only use of contrasting colour - the single use of murky yellow in the title.
ALTERNATIVE MOVIE POSTERS: FILM ART FROM THE UNDERGROUND
I recently had the privilege of being part of a collection of designers and artists, supplying artwork to a forthcoming book about alternative movie poster design.
Alternative Movie Posters: Film Art From The Underground by Matthew Chojnacki is out Oct 2013. Head to the Facebook page and the twitter page for more details.
MAGGIE’S RIDERS IDENTITY.
I was asked by a good friend to come up with design collateral for her team’s charity cycle from London to Edinburgh in July.
Once we developed the name - MAGGIE’S RIDERS, based on the charity they’re riding for - I cracked on with the ID and the subsequent posters, as well as upcoming riding gilet design.
Short crime film VERSUS gets Kickstarted…
I’ve been working with a crack team of film producers to turn my short crime film script, Versus, which I also plan to direct into filmmaking reality. Now we have a Kickstarter campaign rolling as of today to secure the funding.
Please take a look at the profile and donate anything you can spare if you can. If you’re feeling flush you can even become an Executive Producer…
Failing that, please share the link and help us spread the word…
Thank You!
SILENT RUNNING GETS PUBLISHED…
My Silent Running poster has just been printed - alongside some modern poster design greats including GentlemanPencil, Signalstarr, Phantom City Creative, CranioDsgn, Brandon Schaefer and many many more - in Alternative Movie Posters Volume 2. Very honoured. The book is out to buy now and available here.
THESE ARE NOT MOVIE POSTERS.
Came across a friend’s website the other day with some old concepts that I had done years ago at a couple of previous agencies I used to work at. Haven’t seen these for ages…
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off film poster.
D&AD: creative for up-coming retro SFL screening of Ferris Bueller.
‘ELEMENT SERIES’
(One of three)
Poster series based on traditional psychedelic imagery, stripped down to geometric ‘elemental bases’. Done as a series of three posters, to be sold separately or as a full set. Next two coming soon…
THE HOST.
Poster concept for the UK film campaign for this awesome Korean monster horror.
Artwork created at Allcity Media.
Intellectual copyright Studiocanal.
