By this time we’ve all seen the trailer for Tom Ford’s A Single Man (check it here if you have not). A fan of the film, Mr. Ford, and design, decided to give the poster art a second glance. As ck/ck tells us, “Whenever I’m feeling uninspired I like to make movie posters to get my creative juices going again. It always works.” It sure does. (ianc)
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This isn’t good design. Design is about communication, and this tells you nothing about what the movie is about. You could put this on a Woody Allen movie, and it’d be more appropriate. This design is a face-value mimicry of a costume. It’s a bad impressionist getting his five minute set at last call.
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Woody doesn’t wear ties, so no.
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The design does communicate something – a void, a shell of a person, someone who is defined by outward facing artifacts. I haven’t seen the movie, just the trailer, but that’s what this poster says to me and I don’t believe it’s incongruous with what the trailer itself communicates about the movie’s tone.
The sparse nature of this design is as much a tool for communication as any literal overly-produced photo montage poster. Given the ubiquity of movie trailers and information available online a poster design, particularly one created in the context of the web, doesn\’t need to communicate in the same way a billboard or subway poster needs to. I find this design so refreshing and tasteful, much closer to what I would expect from someone with such refined taste as Tom Ford.
Its very simple and beautiful, great job!!!
does anybody now where i can buy copies of this poster? i love it.
cheers
anthony.harding@mac.com