Made these for a thing in January. Scrapping them in favor of something that people will be able to understand easier.

So what’s going on here? There’s an episode of Sea Lab 2021 where Sparks reveals to Marco that he’s has a hobby: he rules over a colony, known to its inhabitants as a floating green head referred to as “The Overlord”. Sometimes the citizens don’t do as their told (Gene, in particular), and punishment comes their way. And so on and so forth.

I thought it’d be funny to drag that into the imagery presented in the 1956 film adaptation of George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty Four”. Unfortunately, I don’t think anyone is going to “get” the whole thing, so I’m abandoning it and posting the partial results here.

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Same as it ever was…

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via Park Circus Films

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Graphic designer Bob Gill on creating a poster for the 1979 film “…and justice for all.” pulled from his book Graphic Design as a Second Language. His new book hits shelves next week.

1. An ad for a film with an ironic title- that justice is not for all, but only for the rich. Solution: justice defiled. The producers hate it. They felt it wasn’t commercial.

2. I got the model back, this time in a whore’s outfit. Solution: justice can be bought. Again, the producers hated it.

3. “Okay,” I said, “what do you really want?” “Don’t give us justice,” they said, “give us Al. Al Pacino sells tickets. Not justice.” Eventually, I made another presentation. Needless to say, they hated that too. And then they got rid of me.

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A wide-format poster from Jacques Tati’s Mon Oncle that I put together for the Silver Screen Society. Time and again the title character comically finds himself surrounded by the rise of modernism in France during the late 1950s, so the typography takes its cues from the clean shapes and angles present in the world around him.

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