This post was solely inspired by “The Spirit” movie that I watched today with my fiancee. I think it’s absolutely brilliant piece of cinematic art and Frank Miller’s style is so inspiring that it’s worth putting some examples on the blog.
Frank Miller?
In case you spent last few years under the rock, I’ll drop a short biographic note of Frank Miller. What you need to know is that Frank is the original author of such masterpiece comics like “300″, “Sin City” and “The Spirit” which have been adapted by Hollywood to grow into billion-making movies. His weapon of choice is film noir style, which means it’s mostly about good cops, bad cops, sex, drugs and so on. So, who is Frank Miller (I’ll quote Wikipedia on that):
Frank Miller (born January 27, 1957) is an American writer, artist and film director best known for his dark, film noir-style comic book stories and graphic novels for Dark Horse Comics, DC Comics, and Marvel Comics. He recently directed The Spirit. Miller shared directing duties with Robert Rodriguez on the film Sin City and produced 300.
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Published on
May 13, 2009 in
Design;
Recently in my home city there was a contest held by Coca-Cola, UMK Kraków, ASP Kraków and BrandStorm Agency for designers and artists. The task was to design regional promotional special edition Coca-Cola can using the draft provided by Coca-Cola Poland and the guys at BrandStorm. I did a design for this contest, but unfortunately I passed the deadline by two days due to the fact that I was out of the town for the weekend (deadline passed this Monday). I’m angry like hell, because there was a Macbook Pro 17″ to win (no, I wouldn’t carry it with me, I’d use it as stationary computer at home, using my 13″ Macbook as a mobile device like I do now). As Romans used to say, alea iacta est, and there’s nothing I can do about me being too late, but I decided to share the design and the process behind it with you.
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As you probably remember, few posts ago I wrote that I’m starting a series of typography illustrated posters that will basically serve two causes – one: I want to have fun doing illustrations and typography and I want to dive deeper into design than just logos and websites which I was doing most of my design career, and two: most probably this or next year I will be trying to get into design and illustration school and I need some variety in my portfolio.
Anyway, without further ado, I present to you second of the series, “Waves”. Inspiration on type and color was mostly drawn from retro design and lifestyle magazines like Emigre or Esquire and since I was on a out-of-the-town chill out weekend, I tried to keep it in light, summer, vacation mood. As usual, original is available as A3@300dpi. If you want to print it for yourself, let me know.
Published on
May 7, 2009 in
Daily;
As a typography addict, one day I started a project that was aimed to create series of type-based posters talking about design, typography, interesting quotes found in books I’ve read, famous movie lines etc. Today, I present you first of the series, called “Adrenaline rush”. Original is A3@300dpi, I’m still looking forward to print it and see how it looks on the wall. Anyway – here it is (click for bigger image)!
