My initial working process might be to begin with a few thumbnail sketches, if I am struggling with an idea, but I typically jump right into Adobe Illustrator CS6. "I work for the most part completely digitally. And that excitement is what you need to be successful at poster design." QUESTION: What is your design process? "To be a part of that tradition and help usher it into the age of Photoshop is a great feeling. Drew Struzan may be the most famous pop artist you don’t know unless you’re a film nerd, but his work on the posters for Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Back to The Future, to name a only few, are iconic images from the 80s and 90s. "Saul Bass brought respect to the art form with his work for Hitchcock and Kubrick. Saul Bass brought respect to the art form with his work for Hitchcock and Kubrick
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Think about how the movie poster has become a part of pop culture. "I have love for not just film, but also the tradition of the theatrical release movie poster. It makes it easy to put in time when you are excited about what you are creating. "The best advice I could give anyone who wants to design posters is create designs based on the things you love. That is a little homage to Anderson’s notorious use of symmetrical shots in his films." What advice would you give to someone getting started in poster design? The poster is meant to be very symmetrical so that no matter how you flip it, the design works either way. "I also like the fact that there isn’t really a top or bottom to the piece. But, being a fan of Anderson’s work and having a keen sense of his visual style, I think I was able to make a connection between the film and the final design.īen's favourite piece is his poster for Moonrise Kingdom It really is a challenge to form a design idea around a minute or two of quick cut footage. "I created the Moonrise Kingdom poster from just watching the trailer and looking through the film’s website prior to it’s release. "I have to say given the overwhelming comments and positive feedback from the Moonrise Kingdom poster it has become one of my favourite works. So, it ends up being not just about having a passion for the work but also making the right connections and networking." QUESTION: Which piece of work are you most proud of, and why? "Thanks to my connection at my name got passed along to folks at NBC Universal in the UK, and my poster got picked up for use as a promotional give-away to highlight the DVD release. He has a strong eye for design, which is evident in the way he frames his shots and his use of unique colour palettes. I'm a huge Wes Anderson fan, and really enjoy his style of storytelling. "When the chance to do a fan art Moonrise Kingdom poster for came up, I jumped. I am a huge Wes Anderson fan, and really enjoy his style of storytelling I participated in some of their alternate movie poster galleries and developed a good relationship with the online editors. "That got me the attention of a few entertainment and design websites, including, the website for Shortlist magazine published in the UK. "I had created two posters for Kubrick’s The Shining that became very popular and ended up being added to an online exhibition of Kubrick inspired artwork for La Cinémathèque Française, who were doing a Kubrick retrospective.
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So much passion, that many of us spend most of our free time creating artwork to share with other fans." QUESTION: How did the opportunity to work on Moonrise Kingdom come about?
I have the utmost respect for fan art community because of the passion they have for the source material. "The online fan art community started to take notice of how passionate I was about the work and it started to get reposted on more and more websites and blogs. "As I continued to upload posters, I could see that I was slowly moving away from the minimal style, which was very popular at the time, to more complex and intricate illustrations. The fan art community became my creative outlet.
"By day I’m your standard corporate brand designer, which can be rewarding in many ways, but it is challenging keeping the work fresh when tied to a big old brand book. The fan art community became my creative outlet
Each month a new actor/actress name would be sent to the group and you would choose a picture from their filmography to create a poster around. "When I was first getting into the poster and fan art scene, I was a member of an online community on the Behance Network that specialised in creating re-imagined 'minimal' movie posters. QUESTION: How did you get into illustrating posters and fan art? In this interview we talk to Ben about his work, his inspiration, and the grey area of copyright infringement in fan art.
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