Drew: The Man Behind The Poster

krudler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI_ckeUjonE

Really looking forward to this documentary about Drew Struzan, even if you've never heard of him, you certainly know his work. And what a body of work it is, he's done the posters for all 6 Star Wars movies, Indiana Jones, Back To The Future, Goonies, Harry Potter, Big Trouble In Little China, among countless others. If its was 80s or early 90's and it had a fantasy/sci fi theme, chances are Drew did the poster. In these days of photoshop job floating head posters designed to hit a target demographic, Drew's still stand out as genuine works of art, some of my favourite examples below:
















And his unused poster for The Mist is all kinds of awesome



Its hard to believe some of those images are paintings, the Rocky IV especially, its stunning looking. Any other fans?

mike65

Not my bag (as seen above) but I agree with you about the lost art of poster art and design. Rather the way like rock bands used to have a strong brand ID through a consistent visual design but increasingly don't. That said Shutter Island is very much of the old school.

One of my favs is John Solie who did much work for Roger Corman, exploitation flicks always need an eye-catching poster and he usually came up with the goods.

My own Solie favourite, not the better horizontal Quad design but nonetheless a classic example of a poster conveying the atmosphere of the subject in an exciting fashion (the actual people scooping machinery scenes were on a far more modest scale in the film!)

Duggy747

His art is legendary, it's what encaspulates a movie so perfectly. I'm definitely getting my hands on the new book "The Art Of Drew Struzan".

Here's some protoype posters from the book that show his original ideas:









Somehow, his posters for the movies of the 80's just seem to make them better when you looked at their covers A sign that somebody actually put some work into the cover of the damn thing.