Category: Iconic Movie posters.

Crime movie posters decoded: noir shadow, The Godfather’s puppet strings, Pulp Fiction’s pulp border, typography and why they suit a study, bar or lounge.

The best action movie posters of all time, from Rambo and Die Hard to Fury Road. See the design tricks behind iconic one-sheets and the best prints to hang.

From Casablanca to Titanic and La La Land, a look at the most iconic romance movie posters ever designed and why they still work as wall art.

Explore the best 1970s movie posters, from Jaws to The Godfather. Painted key art, the New Hollywood aesthetic and why these prints suit any study or lounge.

The best 1990s movie posters, from Pulp Fiction to Trainspotting and The Matrix. How grunge, indie design and early compositing shaped a collectible decade.

Two Studios, Two Visual Philosophies Marvel and DC have been releasing superhero films at industrial scale for almost twenty years, and the two studios have evolved diametrically opposed visual identities. A Marvel one-sheet, on average, is bright, saturated, character-stacked and unabashedly comic-book in tone. A DC one-sheet, on average, is dark, monochromatic, stark and aggressively…

The Posters Famous Enough to Be Mocked A movie poster has only really arrived when other people start parodying it. The studios sink enormous amounts of money into creating campaign artwork strong enough to anchor a film — but the true measure of a poster’s cultural status is whether it gets pastiched in album covers,…

The Other Side of the Wall Walk into any serious cinephile’s home and the wall opposite the sofa is rarely the Hollywood blockbuster. It’s the foreign film one-sheet — Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai, Bergman’s Persona, Fellini’s 8½, Tarkovsky’s Stalker, Truffaut’s The 400 Blows. These are some of the most beautifully designed posters in the medium, and…