To gear up for the Houston Symphony concert featuring music from Star Wars (and an excuse to have more geekiness for today), we’ve collected a series of fan made posters that are all about the Force — whether its the light side or the dark side. To make things more interesting than just your average guy with a light saber, these featured artists’ work are stylized in solids, minimalism, or with a retro theme. Let’s start things off with this incredible piece of Boba Fett paying homage to The Rocketeer:
Congratulations goes out to Spain for their victory in the 2010 FIFA World Cup! To celebrate the World Cup (and the end of listening to the drone of thousands of vuvuzela horns), we’ve put together a collection of posters for the event, dating back to when the tournament began in 1930.
Fantastic Story Magazine was a 1950-55 science fiction pulp magazine, featuring short stories and incredible cover art. The masthead, name, and design concepts may have changed over the years of its 23 issues, but one thing remained the same: Babes in Bikinis…in space. Or at least, that’s what illustrator Earle K. Bergey published for his issues. We have Bergey’s designs of daring space ladies’ apparel to thank for the inspiration for Princess Leia’s slave-girl costume.
In addition to Star Wars paying homage to this publication, one issue (Fall 1954) was prominently displayed as a prop in our site’s theme movie, Back to the Future.
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Modern Hollywood graphic designers are lazy — and that’s a fact. I’ve heard it straight from the mouth of a Disney executive, who stated that he’s actually tried to get fired a few times for creating terrible movie posters full of floating heads and cheesiness. While the rest of the world doesn’t seem to mind, things like the stereotypical or obvious solution make us designers cringe and want to cry ourselves to sleep at night. However, there is a ray of hope for these modern examples of recent movie posters that have chosen to gone in the conceptual route. The result: a movie poster you’d be proud to frame.
Star Wars Episode 1
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