{"id":11005,"date":"2017-10-31T12:25:14","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T12:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designmantic.com\/blog\/?p=11005"},"modified":"2025-01-31T13:54:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T13:54:30","slug":"19-creative-designers-movie-posters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designmantic.com\/blog\/19-creative-designers-movie-posters\/","title":{"rendered":"#GivingTuesday Roundup: 19 Creative Designers Who Bring Life To Movie Posters"},"content":{"rendered":"

How many of us can relate the success of a movie with an eye-grabbing poster? Anyone? Well, the answer hides in viewers\u2019 negligence to the fact that they are secretly being tricked by all those poster designers who are behind the eye-catching poster designs. The art of movie poster designing is as old as movie making itself, and most people are not aware of the size of the budgets filmmakers are allocating for getting an out-of-the-box movie poster design made. With the rise of tools like an AI Poster Generator<\/a> and Ai image extender<\/a> enhance visuals, ensuring every design element conveys the movie’s essence. which can swiftly adapt to budding trends in poster design<\/strong><\/a>, filmmakers are tapping into this technology as an essential factor for creative branding and marketing of a movie.<\/p>\n

Movie Logo Templates<\/a><\/div>\n

According to Tony Seiniger, a celebrated movie poster designer and illustrator, \u201cThere are two rules when it comes to creating a movie poster. It needs to be different \u2013 that’ll get it attention. Second, the poster has to tell its story in mere seconds. After all, most people will be driving past it at 30 miles per hour. Try get two hours of entertainment down into a simple graphic you can read in three seconds.”<\/p>\n

An iconic movie poster is one that is based on public demands and a successful poster designer knows how to make a movie poster<\/a> that can achieve it. There are various principles involved that guarantee a classic poster design and it does include the basic principles of typeface classification<\/strong><\/a>. Portraying movie moods through typography can be tricky sometimes and playing with its elements in a controlled environment is an art a good poster designer is master at.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s divulge details about the icons of movie poster designing in alphabetical order who have set cinematic examples for the ages to come\u2026<\/p>\n

1. Akiko Stehrenberger<\/h2>\n

People call her the poster girl. Such is Akiko Stehrenberger<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s passion for designing movie posters and she is master of her art. Akiko moved to Los Angeles from New York in 2004 to work as a freelance editorial illustrator. She got her big break when she was hired by Crew Creative advertising agency as a designer and art director. After working for two consecutive two years at the agency, Akiko decided to quit and continue as a freelancer and is now working for many agencies including Crew Creative.<\/p>\n

Best Work: Funny Games, After The Storm<\/h3>\n

\"Funny<\/a>
\nSource: IMDB<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI really had to fight and scratch to keep it as simple as it is,\u201d says Akiko of her restrained design for Funny Games. \u201cThe client really wanted blood on Naomi\u2019s face, or a white glove pulling at her hair. I believed so strongly that it was more eerie not knowing what was making her tearful\u2026 Eventually my stubbornness paid off!\u201d<\/p>\n

\"After<\/a>
\nSource: IMDB<\/a><\/p>\n

2. Andrew Bannister<\/h2>\n

Best Work: Insyriated<\/h3>\n

Andrew Bannister<\/strong><\/a> is a London based artist who studied fine art at Nottingham Polytechnic and Chelsea College of Art. Working in higher education since 1993, he currently teaches on the BA and MA fine art programs at City & Guilds of London Art School.<\/p>\n

\"Insyriated\"<\/a>
\nSource: Flickeringmyth<\/a><\/p>\n

Andrew has rightfully portrayed the haplessness of a mother of three trapped inside her home in modern-day Damascus. The poster shows the city around the house reduced to rubble and the streets in a war zone. All in all, the poster is as intense as the movie itself.<\/p>\n

3. Bill Gold<\/h2>\n

Bill Gold<\/strong><\/a>, a former graphic designer and poster maker<\/a>, is best known for thousands of film poster designs. The first movie poster of his career, that spans overs 70 years, was for Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942). Since then he has worked with some of Hollywood’s greatest filmmakers and has made some iconic poster designs for movies like Casablanca, A Clockwork Orange, The Exorcist, Mystic River etc.<\/p>\n

Best Work: Casablanca, The Exorcist<\/h3>\n

\"Casablanca\"<\/a>
\nSource: kknews.cc<\/a><\/p>\n

Classic, simple elegance! Although, Casablanca was not the first poster that labored the big red lettering in title treatment and many floating heads in one poster, it just happens to be the best one. Thanks to the shot of color in the upper segment and artistic treatment, it still seems cool irrespective of ages.<\/p>\n

\"Casablanca\"<\/a>
\nSource: IMDB<\/a><\/p>\n