My versions of film posters are sometimes to improve on the original concept but more often than not they are simply to express my enthusiasm for the film in question.
One thing that I do like to do is to take one or two elements from the original poster artwork and ‘remix’ them inside the new layout. I enjoy this aspect as it forces me to look closely at the graphic design provided by the original designers and understand the decisions that they made before I subvert or discard them.
– –
Client: Self-led
for your eyes only (1981)
The hook for this poster was a ‘google Maps’ satellite image of a swimming pool that features heavily in one of the early action sequences in the film. I added a floating body for dramatic effect.
I wanted to use that as my key motif, as I felt that the rest of the films narrative is set in motion from those events – essentially the hitman responsible for the deaths of the parents of the heroine, is himself killed in the said swimming pool by said heroine.
I then set the whole thing underwater as seafaring is a key theme of the film.
GET carter (1971)
I was inspired by the famous scene where Jack Carter (Michael Caine) throws rival gangster Cliff Brumby (Bryan Mosley) over the edge of a staircase of Gateshead car park.
The point of view of the poster, using the crosshairs, is to suggest that Carter is being watched at all times by the hitman who will eventually ‘get’ him.
I flipped the scene to enhance the feeling of confusion and disorientation that is at the heart of this classic piece of British crime realism.
The funereal colourway is taken from a 1990s re-release poster that I always felt suited the film.
Quatermass & the Pit (1968)
Alternate Key Art for the Hammer Studios version of Nigel Kneale’s classic sci-fi story.
The plot revolves around a mysterious object uncovered during the digging of a London Underground tunnel extension. The erstwhile physical scientist Prof. Quatermass is called to the scene, at which point chaos ensues.
My new proposal is essentially a typographic piece that symbolises Prof. Quatermass shining his flashlight into the eponymous pit.
Don’t Look Now (1974)
