Momentum Pictures asked us to find a creative solution to Steve McQueens’ film about sex addiction that included both Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan.
With this in mind we wanted to portray the characters in a pensive mood and give the poster a somber yet elegant feel.
Ralph Fiennes’ reworking of the Shakespearean classic Coriolanus needed an image that had instant drama and impact. The battle torn face and thousand-yard stare seemed the most compelling and accurate image for this national treasures directorial debut.
Because of the great recognition that...
OSLO August 31 is one day in the life of Anders, a young recovering drug addict, who takes a brief leave from his treatment center to have an interview for a job and catch up with old friends.
Set towards the end of the summer, the director wanted the poster to have an almost nostalgic feel to it...
The true story of Sam Childers, a former drug-dealing biker who found God and became a crusader for hundreds of Sudanese children.
Lionsgate wanted a poster that captured the action aspect of the film so we delivered this composition clearly placing Gerard Butler as the heroic protector.
Working closely with the director and commissioning the extremely talented Dan McCarthy we created the Key Art for Paddy Considines incredible directorial debut.
The devil really is in the detail on this one and if you get a chance to see the poster up close there are some great hidden gems.
This quirky Norwegian film was being promoted on a shoe string budget so we were asked to take the existing Troll Hunter International artwork and turn it into a broader reaching campaign.
We presented Momentum Pictures with a raft of creative ideas beyond the print campaign including online...
Using the figurehead of Angela Davis and taking inspiration from a mix of Revolutionary posters and the Black Panther Movements visual language we created this striking image for Soda Pictures theatrical release.
We were asked to produce a campaign for this film that included teaser creative leading onto in-cinema POS advertising.
The teaser creative was music festival focused, featuring fliers, posters and merchandise with a graphic and low-production screen-print style.
The POS campaign moved the...
We combined reference of the letter and image of her within the flames to create this poster.
Keeping it graphic and humorous in tone, this had to look bright and appealing to a younger audience. The title as the buildings added meaning to the title itself.
For Norwegian Wood the client wanted the whole campaign to feel like a strong branding exercise. We created a visual style that no matter the format or the medium stands out in a cluttered environment.
We created a new title treatment to re-enforce the 3D nature of the film and also to compliment the highly retouched image of Nic Cage in the car. The title treatment was designed and rendered in house and was inspired by American muscle car badges.
We were asked to take the US artwork and give it more impact. We changed the colour palette and used a strong spot coloured graphic device to enhance the stand out. The graphic elements allowed us to deliver many different formats and kept the campaign consistent.
We commissioned Alex Trochut to create a logo type to fit with our image of the band. We wanted something resembling a classic bike badge, with chrome effect.
Winner of Screen International Poster of the Year 2010
The brief was to depict a woman caught between two lives, one stale and suppressed, the other alive with passion. We created the passion aspect by using a special fleuro pink and highlighted Tilda Swinton at the heart of a stiff and staged...
Metrodome wanted the UK poster for Rabbit Hole to tonally feel in line with what had been done Internationally but they wanted an extra twist to the artwork.
The shattered effect through the poster resembles the cracks appearing in the couples relationship as they try to deal with their loss.
The title treatment appears to have grown. As the letters and branches intertwine we also get across the four seasons with the use of colour. The tree is divided into the four seasons – spring at the bottom, with new leaves and flowers on the branches, summer next, then autumn with brown and orange...
Shrouded in mystery, the girl with the dragon tattoo needed to be revealed in a striking and memorable way. With that in mind we created a campaign and visual language that took you on an investigation of your own.
Oscar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl who turns out to be a vampire. We were asked to create a visual that was both eerie and haunting.
Award Winning Artwork: This won the award for Best Documentary Poster at the 2009 Golden Trailer Awards in Los Angeles.
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We had no stills to work with to get the image we wanted, so the whole poster is created out of an illustration and a photograph we took. Our intention was to get the public to...
One night at a bar, an old friend tells director Ari about a recurring nightmare in which he is chased by 26 vicious dogs. Every night, the same number of beasts. The two men conclude that there’s a connection to their Israeli Army mission in the first Lebanon War of the early eighties.
The Crow is funny, direct and uncluttered. Its bomb looks homemade but not too threatening. The timer (blog) was particularly tricky as it had to look mechanical and basic, but also real as in thats what the viewer expects a bomb timer to be. The icons give the viewer insight into what the title is...
“This needs to be cult & cool” was the brief. Working within extensive contractual obligations we managed to capture the essence of the film and create a poster that ticks both boxes. The iguana adds intrigue and a surreal slant. To capture the unhinged nature of Nicolas Cages performance we offset...
Dealing with a film that is about such an Iconic character meant that we needed to deliver something that would resinate with people from the offset. With its simple bold title treatment and use of colour this poster was instantly recognisable.
This is a teaser poster, advertising the upcoming release. We constructed the Dragon from flames, using the same template as the dragon on our Dragon Tattoo poster so as to retain the branding.
Waking up to find you’ve been buried alive inside a coffin with only a lighter and a cell phone is a frightening thought, so we needed to capture the panic and claustraphobic nature of this film immediately.
With a sense of voyeurism and intrigue, coupled with simple design and earthy colours, this was less about ‘over design’ and more about creating clear branding.
This went on to do so well we produced over 60 adverts, and bearing in mind this was a German film that was quite unique.
A woman struggles to interact with her family and find her place in society after spending fifteen years in prison. The brief was to create something bold and simple using a shot of KST, but also to introduce the other cast in a minimal way.
To kick the hornets nest means to kick up a storm or to shake things up so we felt that the visual language needed to look like a storm or swarm of dust and debris, but still using our original dragon motif as the basis. This is the teaser poster for the upcoming release.
This is a teaser poster created to build interest in the upcoming release of the Matt Reeves remake of Let The Right One In. To get an encased in ice look, a block of ice was placed over some type and photographed.
This had to be unique but retain its thriller essence. Based around the eye, which when peeled back showed layers of story we incorporated images of the gunman and the main character. Originally we used a very female eye, but it was simplified to just become a shape, which on studying should become...
By creating a style that acted as a series of windows into the world of the Comorrah, we were able to meet the clients specific brief of showcasing the scale of the film as well as many aspects of the Naples Mafia at a glance.
Quite simply we wanted to show the cast overpowered by the mysterious, threatening figure of Paddy Considine, with the axe becoming their executioner. Influenced by 60’s horror posters, the moment Shane was shown the poster is featured on the DVD. Fortunately it went down very well.
The creative needed to be quirky, off beat and original. This concept was based around the idea of CK entering his own head, but because of the stage-play set backdrop to the film, we made it a drape. This way we could maintain the higher concept, but keep to the central theme of the film.
In this romantic drama, we wanted to convey the situation (Pheonix) finds himself in, being torn between two women.
Following on from Kidulthood we wanted to create something that was in keeping with the previous film but taking it on a step. The film is set six years after the first and therefore an element of maturity was needed in the art direction and styling.
We looked at old fashioned circus posters in creating this. The feats are so amazing he is like a super hero, so we wanted to list them to give the veiwer an insight into his character.
Our brief was to sell this 40 year old french new wave masterpiece to a new generation and the existing one. We were heavily influenced by the work of Blue Note records graphic designer Reid Miles who’s style shaped the face of jazz.
The main characters are on the move and seem to be engagaed in a world of their own. The simplicity and graphic space reflect the directors distinctive graceful style. Mr Wenders was very appreciative of our delicate simple approach.
We wanted to show that the film was more than just a coming of age prison cell drama. Malik strides confidentally breaking outside of his cell window…is it a vision of what he once was? who he is? The image is gritty, simple and timeless.
The tone needed to reveal the humour and lighter side of the Ceausescu regime. We tried to capture a sense of playfulness, innocence and the bizarre.
Limited edition of 60 screen prints, numbered and signed by Christian Mungiu. This 4 colour 30x40 inch hand printed poster featuring the combined...