A movie poster remade into it's most simplist form

Olly Moss is a pretty decent designer, scratch that damn good designer. On his own time he decided to remake eight well known movie posters in a minimalism/abstract manner. The result is eight fascinating reinterpretations, each one braking the story down to an illustration representing a key story point.


I especially like the Die Hard approach. For me the shards of glass represent danger around every corner and his vulnerability with not having his shoes. The others are less inspired but equally well treated. The designs remind me of old books you would find in a corner of some book store.

Overall I think it's a good example of not going for the obvious Photoshop treatment with a Big Head and doing something fresh and simple. I guarantee that if any of these posters were up people would remember them a lot longer than a big head with a tiny building blowing up in the background. The only fall back to this approach is that they maybe seen to be too intellectual, which would be a turn off to those that don't want to think, which is most of America unfortunately.

Movies Revisited by Alamo Drafthouse Cinema

We've all said it, "you should watch that film in the theater, it deserves it". Well most of us never got that experience because we saw them on VHS years later.

Enter stage left, The Alamo Draft House, a movie theater out of Austin, Texas. They play everything from the upcoming spectacular Coraline, to the classic Escape From New York. I first heard about it through reading Harry Knowles website AintItCoolNews.com who goes there to watch all his new and old flicks, as well as host his yearly ButNumbAThon. The BNAT is famous to film geeks because he crafts a 24 hour film marathon with soon to be released Hollywood films like Che and old cult films like Metropolis. For many, it's the holy grail of film watching. All of this has created quite a reputation for the The Alamo Draft House and out of it they've made their own special movie night events.



They've taken the most notable cult movies, that can be rented at Blockbuster, and created a night out of them. To give the movie a refreshing new look and presence they've used local artists to reinterpret the movie posters. The artist they choose must have his/her own special love for the films the Alamo chooses because the posters are incredibly well crafted. Each one forgoes the use of photography and instead uses their hand drawn techniques to create a unique and refreshing take on the film.

I particularly like the collage ink drawn pieces. If you're a huge fan of the film you'll recognize the scene that the character has been pulled from, which highlights the best moments of the character.

As for the other posters like The Godfather and Shining they go more internal and abstract and reminds me of the movie posters done in Poland from the communist era days. Click here to learn more about them.

Seeing these movie posters reminds me of how good they are and because of that they are incredibly successful. In fact I want to go watch Escape from New York right now. If an artist can do that, then they will be very successful in this business.

Some of the posters can be purchased at mondotees.com, get them while you can because they sell out fast.

Chuck Anderson, A Graphic Designer

Chuck Anderson is the type of designer that we all would like to be, fiercely talented and very successful. The best way to describe Chuck's work is to hear it from the man himself:

Energetic, explosive, and colorful...That's been my style lately. I really don't have a certain style, so I can't share with you a description. That's the whole 'no pattern' thing. Not being restrained or bound to a style. I like to tell people to just look at my work. It's not really classified into anything, really.

Shortly after completing high school at the age of 19 (2003) he began to professionally design. He built NoPattern.com and took on a couple small jobs (underbidding himself each time) and posted them on his site. Between the small jobs and the experimental stuff he was creating he started to develop an interesting style using light and color.

These pieces quickly caught the eye of some large clients (Absolute, Vans, and Mountain Dew) who were looking for something new and fresh. It quickly became a perfect marriage of client and artist and has snowballed ever since. You can see his work at NoPattern.com or buy his book, "Wandering Off Into Space".