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Typography Movie Posters

Matt Thomas — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 21:09:49 +0000

Patrik Svensson designed posters for various movies using only a few letters and/or characters. Here’s his poster for The Shining:

(Via Minimalissimo.)

Filed under: Kubrick, movies, posters, typography

Late Into the Night

Matt Thomas — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:35:32 +0000

—It’s Futura Extra Bold. It was Stanley’s favorite typeface. It’s sans serif. He liked Helvetica and Univers, too. Clean and elegant.
— Is this the kind of thing you and Kubrick used to discuss?
—God, yes. Sometimes late into the night.

—“Citizen Kubrick,” The Guardian, 27 March 2004.

Filed under: Kubrick, quotes, typography

The Face All Print Men Are Talking About

Matt Thomas — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 02:36:23 +0000

(Via yay!everday via Khoi Vinh.)

Filed under: design, gender, typography Tagged: Helvetica

Dear Typography

Matt Thomas — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:19:40 +0000

Via The Accidental Optimist. Hat tip Rands.

Filed under: posters, typography

OOO, OOO, OOOO

Matt Thomas — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:25:59 +0000

Filed under: music, typography, video

My God—It’s Full of Stars

Matt Thomas — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:53:05 +0000

Typographic poster for Stanley Kubrick’s science fiction masterpiece. The famous quote is not included in the final version of the film but appears in Arthur C. Clarke’s original book. The em dash that breaks the phrase represents the ever present monolith. The poster is set in Futura Extra Bold, (Kubrick’s typeface of choice) and printed with glow in the dark ink, so the star field only becomes visual in the darkness of space.

(Via.)

Filed under: Kubrick, movies, posters, typography

Typestaches

Matt Thomas — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:26:02 +0000

(Via.)

Filed under: design, typography

Dogs as Typefaces

Matt Thomas — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:12:28 +0000

(Via.)

Filed under: design, typography Tagged: dogs

Optima. Really?

Matt Thomas — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:45:52 +0000

A number of graphic designers weigh in on John McCain’s campaign’s choice of typeface. The consensus seems to be that a better choice might have been made.

Get Helvetica Off Our Money

Matt Thomas — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:26:22 +0000

http://gethelveticaoffourmoney.com/

Paul Rand’s Letterhead

Matt Thomas — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 05:32:55 +0000

Saw this recently over at Design Observer and was struck by, in the words of one of the commenters, its simple, understated design. The typeface is Helvetica Standard Medium.

The Typographer as Casting Director

Matt Thomas — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:19:32 +0000

One of the more interesting statements made in Gary Hustwit’s Helvetica:

The classical modernist line on how aware a reader should be of a typeface is that they shouldn’t be aware of it at all. It should be this crystal goblet there to hold and display and organize the information. But I don’t think it’s really quite as simple as that. I think even if they’re not consciously aware of the typeface they’re reading, they’ll still be affected by it, in the same way an actor that’s miscast in a role will affect someone’s experience of a movie or play that they’re watching. They’ll still follow the plot, but be less convinced or affected. I think typography is similar to that. A designer choosing typefaces is essentially a casting director.

—Tobias Frere-Jones