Category: Iconic Movie Poster Artists

The Painter Who Refused to Disappear By the time Drew Struzan retired, almost every other Hollywood marketing department had quietly switched to Photoshop. The poster game had moved from airbrushed acrylic on illustration board to layered photographs with a Gaussian blur on the back layer, and a generation of younger designers had never even held…

The Man Who Threw Out the Rulebook Before Saul Bass, a movie poster was essentially a painted billboard — a portrait of the star, a romantic clinch, the title in big serif type, and a tagline crammed into whatever space was left over. Bass looked at all of that, decided it was nonsense, and started…