I am so excited for this post, I love movies and I love movie posters. I love walking into a theatre and checking out all the new upcoming movie posters. I will admit movie posters have become more of a mainstream promotional tool for the actors. There is less design and meaning to a poster these days – posters feature the main actor with some sort of explosion or montage of supporting actors.
I have recently become a huge fan of redesign minimalist movie posters that are simple symbols from a movie. The posters below are movies that are somewhat popular, or have some sort of following. The artists usually design these posters because they love the movie, and there is a specific message or symbol that represents that title. The posters convey a message so perfectly that make these art pieces clever, subtle and awesome.
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Awesome post! So many cool posters to see, I could easily have every one of these hanging on my wall!
Nowadays film posters are far too blown out and as you mentioned constantly featuring the actors in a giant advertisement, isn’t a single theme/idea or story good enough to represent on a poster anymore?
Thanks for this post… as a huge film fan this is a great collection to check out!
These posters are awesome! Thanks for sharing. I love the simplicity and use of texture.
Love these posters – I suspect that all of them only make sense after you’ve seen the actual film and get the visual references!
All these posters looks fantastic. Very simple and creatively designed.
A brilliant collection of movie posters here. As you and others have said it does make a nice change to see a movie poster that breaks away from the norm, one that actually provokes thought, and can hold the viewers attention without using explosions, a badly staged montage of the cast or partial nudity. The simple nature of the posters forces the viewer to look further into it to find the true meaning behind it. A particular favourite of mine is the ‘Jurassic park’ poster. It is amazing how such a small image of a glass holding rippled water can provoke a whole host of thoughts and memories.
Well done on a great post.
These are really fun simplistic film poster that you can only relate to if you have seen the film.
The Star Wars poster is particularly geeky
Thanks everyone for the great comments – I wonder if it would be fun to do another post with todays crap posters – it might be funny…
If anyone has any other posters to share – please upload them to our flickr group or put a url here…
These posters are nice.I particularly like the “up”one.
Titanic FTW
Wow, these posters are awesome!! So many Great representations of iconic films!
Thanks a lot for sharing.
This is a lifetime supply of awesomeness..
magnificent posters ! Thanks for sharing
I particularly like the ones from Pulp Fiction, Jurassic Park and Home Alone.
Check out my collection of photo montages:
http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Dont-Fuck-with-History/443154
i especially liked the shawshank redemption and titanic. I too think that having watched the movies adds to greater understanding, still they all communicate well. Brilliant!
I don’t get the one from Independence day… Someone?
thanks Chad for this very interesting collection of minimalist movie posters – the essence is more important. Often one finds that these posters make sense only if one has seen the movie or is aware of the plot.
but nevertheless a very good exercise in meaning making and symbolism.
I personally love the one for ‘titanic’.
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MitchMontoya – In the movie Will Smith always smokes a cigar after a mission is over, he smokes one after he captures an alient – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiywbKSlvi4
and then at the end of the movie – Jeff Goldblum and Smith smoke their cigars when they think they might die…
great inspiring, my fav one is TITANIC,,,, i think i sholud some of the movies which i dint see to understand the poster , y u used the particular thing, many poster i got it… only some , .. wil watch those soon..
keep up the work
These rock! Plain and simple — all brilliant — even if you HAVEN’T seen the films, they are still wonderfully simple, but incredibly effective works of art. Beauty in simplicity in it’s purest form! I have become such a proponent of this style, liking the ideas so much – aside from being a film freak – that I started my own pet projects. Check out some the new stuff here >> http://tinyurl.com/2ccvogh
CHEERS!
Please release high res versions of these so I can print them for our office. These are amazing!
where can i buy them?
are these actual posters? i remember back to the future poster was not like this.
I’m totally thrilled by simple and abstract movie posters and your collection is a manifestation for this passion!
My favourite ones are from Graphic Nothing and Pedro Vidotto. But I think that there are much more posters that should be promoted so what do you think about a second series?
You even helped me writing a post on my own blog. I selected two posters of this collection and analised the style of them: http://momentanaufnahme.patlkli.org/2011/02/03/weil-das-leben-schwer-genug-ist-minimalistische-filmplakate-im-fokus/
Keep on rockingg!
Interesting and creative examples.
thanks Chad for this very interesting collection of minimalist movie posters – the essence is more important. Often one finds that these posters make sense only if one has seen the movie or is aware of the plot.
but nevertheless a very good exercise in meaning making and symbolism.
I love minimalist movie art. I love also, how there is a challenge to be original. Break away from the cliche. I feel that when you do that the poster will inspire the veiwer to remember their personal experience of the FILM not the symbol.
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Nice collection!
http://www.behance.net/gallery/Readymade-movie-posters/1182323
I’m working on something similar… feel free to check it out!
what is the meaning of the Full Metal Jacket poster?
@jake remember the jelly donut?
fantastic poster..all are very creatively design..!
All these work so well, straight to the point.
Here is my version.
http://concretecaveman.deviantart.com/art/Big-Fish-216922449
I love minimalistic style, everything is very simple but in the same time brilliant!
i really like the minimalistic approch to each one. i am also working on similar stuff, but i just have one query that if us making these posters and if plan to sell as print, will production houses or original right holdes of film have problem with that?