Minimal Movie Posters

Minimal Movie Posters

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Added Oct 18, 2011 at 12:05PM EDT by Brad.

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About

Minimal Movie Posters are a series of images designed as the minimalist adaptations of posters made for popular films, TV shows as well as book covers. Such artworks typically focus on a specific object or a symbolic imagery used in the said movies and TV shows.

Origin

The project was launched by Australian blogger Caelin[1] via Tumblr site "Minimal Movie Posters"[2] on September 30th, 2010. The site is open to user submissions and requests and each featured artwork contains a link to the original artist's website or merchandise store. According to the site's FAQ, Caelin has accumulated a collection of 2,000 unpublished minimal-style posters since the launch of the site in 2010.

Precursors

Prior to the launch of Minimal Movie Posters, fanmade posters in tribute to classic films have been previously explored by a number of graphic designers and illustrators as early as in 2008, including Brandon Schaefer[10], Italian illustrator Mattia Meirana[9] and Thomas Ramey[11] who released a compilation book titled "Movie Posters for Movie Lovers."


Minimalist Movie Poster of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Rear Window minimalist movie poster Minimalist movie poster for Titanic

Spread

The concept of minimalist poster art has since spread through major photo-sharing communities like Tumblr, Flickr[3] as well as DeviantART[4], spawning hundreds of tribute artworks by movie fans and graphic designers alike. The Tumblr blog and the series has been covered by a number of film-related and geek culture blogs like Director's Notes[5], Total Film[6], Uproxx[7] and eBaumsworld[8]. One of the more notable set of derivatives were designed by Polish graphic designer Arden Avett.[12] For more examples, browse KYM Gallery – Minimal Movie Posters.

Notable Examples


Minimalist Movie poster for Leon The Professional Minimalist Movie Poster for 2001 a space odyssey minimalist movie poster for Inception Minimalist Movie Poster for The Royal Tenenbaums Minimalist movie poster for Royal Tenenbaums Minimalist movie poster for Reservoir dogs

Derivative: Meme Movie Posters

In January 2012, artist Stefan van Zoggel launched a personal art project titled "Meme Movie Posters," which features a series of minimal movie posters depicting imageries of various well-known internet memes and viral videos. The project was mentioned by Mashable and CBS News in early Feburary and according to the site, Zoggel is currently accepting user suggestions via his Twitter account @stefvanzoggel for more poster designs.


i like turtles BROUGHT TO YOU BY 3MEDIAPRO STARRING JONATHAN WARE RELEASED JUNE 2007 WWW.YDUTUBE. COM WWW.CARGOCOLLECTIVE.COM/MEMEMOVIEPOSTERS Double Rainbow IT'S SO BEAUTIFUL" WOA" T'S SO BRIGHT WOW" A film by hungrybear9562 Starring Paul "Bear Vasquez in cinema January 8, 2010 WWW CABGOCBELECTIVE COM MEMEMO VIEPOSTERS IAM A M------------ epic beard man BROUGHT TO YOU BY WASHINGTON WEN STARRING THOMAS A. BRUSO FEB 2010 IVE.C MEMEWOVIEPOSTR
A NBC NEWS AFFILIATE FILM STARRING KEVIN ANTOINE DODSON IN CINEMAS JULY 28TH 2010 bed intruder HIDE YOUR KIDS/HIDE YOUR WIFE 411p://[AES.CIILEtIITE.t11/MlEMEUIVLEP0.5IERS ,.Wu·TJ1111E COM EXPECTED 14.03.2011 Casey Heynes Ritchard Gale WWW. YOUTUBE.COM HTTP:IICARGOCOLLECTIVE. COM/MEMEMOVIEPOSTERS eave britney alone!t A FILM BY ITSCHRISCROCKER STARRING CHRIS CROCKER OUT SEP 10, 2007 WwW.YOUTUBE.COM HTTP://CARGOCOLLECTIVE.COM/MEMEMOVIEPOSTERS

Prior to Zoggel's work, Know Your Meme published a set of holiday-themed cards inspired by the style of Minimal Movie Posters and a selection of internet memes in December 2011.

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