Para?noid on 16/2/2006 at 21:37
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I won't start on this, but there is something about this simple logo and beautiful typeset that hits a very emotional chord in me. I think it might have something to do with this kind of design appearing on a lot of old-school game cartridges that were around when I was little. They always seemed like such wonderful, strange things. Jesus
Ever since I saw this:
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http://www-bsac.eecs.berkeley.edu/~tparsons/Tom_Homepage/Photos/zyll.jpg)
I love the way there's no screenshots, just beautifully drawn front cover art. I never actually played this game, but I saw the box once at a friends house. He used to live in this massive house out of town, surrounded by corn fields and a huge garden. A very happy time, where anything seemed possible. We used to stare outside of the window and dream of the infinite so much, inspired by shit like this.
YARRR ROSETINTED SPECTACLES
But no seriously
BEAR on 17/2/2006 at 01:13
Polish posters make me scared :(
Printer's Devil on 17/2/2006 at 02:16
For some reason, graphic design in Poland seems remarkably sophisticated. A client of mine is also a poster collector, and some of the examples he brings by are great pieces of work.
Tumbleweed on 17/2/2006 at 02:49
Well, congratulations to SA. They discovered Polish poster artists four years behind the rest of the internet.
(Stasys Eidrigevicius rocks)
Para?noid on 17/2/2006 at 11:32
Actually, Scots, those are some of the best ones. I wish I could explain why, but it's something to do with the fact that they are highly stylised and bear little relation to the content of the movie.
Rogue Keeper on 17/2/2006 at 11:56
Quote Posted by David
In this era when an American movie was released in Poland they did their own artwork, and really went to town on it.
Not only in Poland. Before the Iron courtain fell, it was common thing that Socialist countries were making their own artworks for foreign movies. It was so from political/propagandist reasons. Hollywood had usually very attractive, shiny and sexy posters with titty chicks and big guns and all forbidden western stuff and that wasn't in accordance with "socialist realism".
It was a little big holiday for cultural community when some American movie came into theatres in Czechoslovakia, there was a special committee which was deciding which movies are ideologically clean for the audience to see. Those were usually movies which more or less subtly criticized negative aspects of living in western capitalist society and it's militarism (such as Kramer vs Kramer, All President's Men, Platoon, Project X, Daryl, Starman...)... but oddly enough they also allowed such decadent stuff as Jaws, E.T., Ghostbusters, Alien, 2001 Space Odyssey...
My love Blade Runner was marked as ideologically dirty for CZ cinemas.
Idiotic Commie farts...
noid, that Back to the Future poster rocks though, if I compare it with the original... :D
