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Tom Whalen's Nouveau Retro Star Wars posters are fresh and tantalizing
June 26th 2008 22:57
He's a graphic designer and in his fun-time, he makes old-skool posters for classic movies, most notably, "A New Hope" and "The Empire Strikes Back". It's a wonderful look, with the similarities between the posters made fresh by the slight change in colours and angles. These are posters that I can get down with.
It's the angular shapes of Han Solo and Chewie that make it for me - the first Star Wars movie is already campy, but these posters reintroduces a sense of fun and space-faring glee to the entire experience - a mood seemingly lost in the recent Star Wars prequels.
Whalen is obviously influenced by Saul Bass, and the homage is a fitting tribute to the original poster master, but Whalen's work introduces his love of sci-fi and horror. Check out this fabulous collection of classic horror movie posters!
In a way, I'm a little irritated with Whalen. This is such a fantastic style and composition method that I'm irritated that I didn't do it first. Instead, here I am, writing about it like a sucker.
Visit Whalen's website, with galleries to all his work!
Also, read the /Film article for more images, including some terrific Freddy Krueger, TMNT, and Alien portraits!
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takes me back....sigh... so old...
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thanks for the publicity! i appreciate the great writeup!
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