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The life and death of movie posters

July 8, 2010 by Jacoub Bondre

Photo by Jacoub Bondre

What happened to movie posters? They used to be beautiful works of art. It seems like these days, movie posters, for the most part, have been distilled into Trajan Pro and a bunch of floating heads.

But just when I thought all hope was lost, I saw this poster on Toronto public transit. Now granted syphilis isn’t something I’d want to check out, but it’s nice to see that the art of the movie poster is not completely dead. Who knows where good old fashioned movie poster design will show up next.

Incidentally, James White at SignalNoise.com talks about and uses old movie posters as inspiration for his art all the time. (If don’t follow White’s work, you should. You can follow him on Twitter, here: @Signalnoise.)

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