Music on Cinema Design

Movie posters: The lost Art

I don’t remember when was the last time I saw a good poster about a movie except for a poster of a paternity testing. Gone are those days when you look at a poster and it entices you to go and watch that movie. Am not quite sure the reason for it probably they spending on getting a trailer of the movie ready. But I wonder how would people find time to More

Too many ways to sell a film

I think the last time I saw a poster that made me actually want to go and see the movie without knowing anything about it was in 2003. I was visiting Edinburgh for the festival and they were screening Mystic River. Never before had an image been so enticing, so mysterious and intriguing enough to make me think I have to see this. The Internet has created a whole new avenue for marketing a film. With the accessibility of online More

Design up your walls with classic posters

Classic posters are used to design up the walls of your room and buildings. In fact there are many shades and sizes of classic posters which are available for you to choose from. There are some posters of the yesteryear’s sportsmen, glamorous movie stars or other gorgeous collections of cars, all of which have the ability to rekindle your memories of the past. Most people are enamored by the charms of the bygone days and regard these vintage and classic More

Walk The Line - a classic poster

It’s funny - in this day and age we do seem to have lost the level of recognition of movie posters and album covers that we had before the digital revolution. I don’t think we quite seem to look at things the way we might have done in the nineteen eighties or even nineteen nineties. I don’t think I’ve ever been to see a movie, or bought an album, because of a poster or cover; but nowadays I think I’m More

Darth Vader in the kitchen

One of the most successful ways that studios and cinemas have started to advertise and promote their films is by the use of the cut-out. I guess this idea came from the business world, where you would often see these kinds of cardboard people on exhibition stands, promoting products and services. Now, cut-outs are not just promotional materials but are big business themselves.

I have a few cut-outs in my own flat, much to the disgust of my other More

Classic Album Cover Design – ‘Fragile’ By Yes

When talking about classic album cover designs, one should give due notice to Roger Dean the designer of the ‘Fragile’ album by the band ‘Yes’.

Roger Dean was instrumental in creating many album covers in the 1960s. These album covers featured exotic fantasy landscapes which were an inspiration with the making of the movie Avatar.

The creation of the album cover of ‘Fragile’ was a major hit for Roger Dean. It included the More

Movie posters become art

OK, we all know that movie posters are much more than just advertising and promotion, in the same way that custom rings are much more than just metal and pretty stones! But there are some posters out there that surpass even my expectations. I may think the images created for movie posters are real works of art, but surely no-one would actually put their money where their mouth is?
Turns out I was wrong and that there is at least More

Do it yourself CD cover

A lot of my mates are in bands and I’ve picked up a lot of free CDs at their gigs over the years. Some of them are just filed in plastic envelopes with the name of the band/artiste on the disc, but I’m pleased to see that every now and then someone will make an effort at creating their own, very individual, CD packaging.

After all, these smaller groups are in the perfect position to create some real works More

Signs of the times

Cinema signage is maybe a bit of an old fashioned art these days. Partly, I guess, because the cinema industry in the UK is dominated by a pretty small number of major players - Odeon, UGC etc - so it’s not so often that you see unique or even unusual exterior signs outside a cinema.

One place that does seem to keep that tradition alive is the Ritzy cinema in Brixton not too far from where I live in South More

Great posters - sci-fi

I was just thinking how brilliant some old movie posters are, and especially some of the older science fiction movies - and how some much more recent movies have taken their cues from those. The old Star Wars posters, for example, are utterly iconic, from the old Return of the Jedi one, featuring a single light saber centred in the screen, to the much busier ones for the orignal Star Wars (or A New Hope, if you prefer). What More