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Big-Typography-River

Posted: October 16th, 2009 | Author: Iancu | Filed under: type | Tags: | 2 Comments »

This beautifully-set-typography poster knocked me out. If the film is half as good, it’s definitely worth watching (Big River Man on IMDB). Wonder who made it—movie posters are rarely this well-designed, they usually go for big, red Futura Ultra Bold or the ‘classic’ Trajan.

big_river_man

(via Graphic Exchange, thanks Cipri)

2 Comments on “Big-Typography-River”

  1. 1 Mark Swan said at 6:15 PM on May 18th, 2010:

    Hello

    I did the poster for allcitymedia.com

    glad you like it. I had about 2 hour from when i was handed the brief till i handed in the poster. The client then spent another 2 days changing the font of the number 2 in 2 bottles of wine. Felt it would be great to put a bit about who this man was on the poster to get interest other wise it’s just a bloke standing in his swimming gear and that’s not an audience puller.

    All the best

    Mark

  2. 2 Iancu said at 11:03 PM on May 18th, 2010:

    Wow, you’re really something, for coming up with this beauty in such a short time :) It looks great, I’d hang it on my wall for sure. Indeed, writing a little about the story makes you curious, I certainly googled to find out more about the subject — great teaser.

    Thanks for the inside info and for the visit.
    Best regards.
    iancu

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