25 Imaginative Illustrations Inspired By Film
Posted by Andrew Lindstrom / Lists / April 16th, 2009
For the most part, being both a film geek and design geek are two completely separate interests of mine that rarely coexist. Occasionally I’ll be enticed by a great poster design, or appreciate the font choice in a title sequence – but usually the two worlds never collide.
However, lately I’ve noticed a trend of artists and designers paying homage to their favorite films in their own creative way. Whether it be the re-imagining of a film’s poster or the designing of a cover for a film’s novelization; I simply can’t get enough of this stuff.
It is in admiration of this movement that I’ve hand picked my favorite 25 Imaginative Illustrations Inspired By Film. Hope you like them.
Network – Source
Annie Hall – Source
The Shining – Source
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade – Source
The Dark Knight – Source
Groundhog Day – Source
Big – Source
American Psycho – Source
M – Source
Rain Man – Source
Office Space – Source
The Philosopher’s Stone – Source
Highlander – Source
Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure – Source
The Great Dictator – Source
Pulp Fiction – Source
Ghost Busters – Source
Synecdoche, NY – Source
Die Hard – Source
The Order of the Pheonix – Source
Fight Club – Source
Deer Hunter – Source
Vacation – Source
The Chamber of Secrets – Source
The Shining – Source
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Great List !!!
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Very inspiring! Thanks Andrew and goo job on the post.
You are a very talented individual. I wouldn’t normally leave a comment on a page like this but I’m well impressed *****
Thanks for the awesome comments guys. Glad the post is going over well.
Absolutely love this list. I have scrolled up and down several times and i feel all warm and fuzzy inside when i see the beautyful fonts and colors and scratches etc.
Where can i find more?
great stuff really. love your blog <3
Wow… very nice and very well thought!
Many of them wouldn’t work so good in selling the movie to a new audience I guess, but when you HAVE seen the movies it is very funny and well executed!
Thank you for this post.
- Emil
Awesome collection man…some real classics!
those are so cool. thanks for sharing. i especially love the charlie chaplin one. xD
Awesome—love the Rain Man one.
ha the Shining one at the end was awesome.
these are amazing. i would love to own a print or two for my wall. any plans to sell lithos of these?
Cool, very cool. Couldn’t help notice though that the one for Groundhog Day has ‘12′ on every square (I presume that’s supposed to be a calendar where every day is the same?…Groundhog day falls on February 2nd…maybe I missed something…
Absolutely brilliant work… nice imagery.
Just to clarify for the people that don’t know any better… he didn’t actually create ANY of these. Take the time to read the post instead of just looking at the pretty pictures.
Thanks for sharing them, of course… people who are clearly praising you under the assumption that YOU did the work really need to pay attention.
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You ripped off someone else’s content and didn’t cite your source!!
I wish I could take credit for creating these amazing pieces, but they are just my favorites from around the web. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
@Charles Noteboom – Although my sources were able to be found at the bottom of the post under “References” or by clicking the image itself, I have added a text link to each image as well to hopefully clear up the confusion.
Very impressive.
A terrific gallery of images! I enjoyed my visit here very much.
Where’s the clockwork orange one?
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I really enjoyed looking through these!
Glad to see more posts on this blog. Great stuff
Can’t say that I like most of these, some I don’t see how they relate to the film at all, Groundhog Day in particular – so it’s the 12th, but that’s the only link I see there and it conveys no sense of comedy or what the film is about; also Ghostbusters… I assume this is the same film about a group of university drop-outs who start up a business catching ghosts, just in time to stop an ancient spirit and it’s giant marsh mallow man from taking over the world. I see nothing about this plot or imagery in that poster, the only reference is a very obscure one about the shoddy ESP ‘research’ conducted by Venkman, which really has nothing to do with the general plot.
They all appear to be in exactly the same style too – got pretty samey and boring for me I’m afraid. I think I left the Ladybird Book of Illustrating behind when I was about 10 years old, now I aspire to something a little more sophisticated and modern.
Don’t get me wrong, illustrations in the 1960’s were exciting and ground breaking at the time, but we are not in the 1960’s any more. These are just a bit too much like those old posters and children’s books, bring nothing new to the style, and just too abstract for my liking.
The highlander one was awesomely funny!
Highlander was great. Very creative and humorous. I like the charactures (Pulp Fiction, Fight Club, etc.) too.
Jonathan, the Ghostbusters design shows the four streams from the proton packs. Great idea in my opinion, as it captures the four characters and their weapon against ghosts which is ultimately what they use to defeat Gozer. In abstract form, I think it’s pretty spot on.
“starring Ernie Hudson”?? wtf?
That’s hot! ::sip:: <3 mB
Awesome! I love the Harry Potter Book covers. I’m a sucker for this type of design.
Loved the Shining one at the end. Very creative.
Some of these are Olly Moss. my personal fav is deer hunter
I think maybe you should give credit where credit is due. I know your intentions are to take the creidt but some may not understand the sourcing
Nice post! Good to have you back in true form.
Also… “Now a major motion picture starring Ernie Hudson”!
Today, I was inspired by your truly creative and imaginative art. I encourage you to spread this across the Internet and the world. Our society could use much more of this subtle challenge to reality.
so true man, Mashable should be more carefull. Controversy is no doubt a good way to catch visitors but not at this level of people following you. Mashable be carefull.
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I love Highlander and Deerhunter! Great artwork.
Love this post… sorry I’m late to the comment party.
Rather pointless to list the ones I like. I enjoy most of them quite a bit. There are a couple I don’t like but only because they use spoilers in an attempt at humor. The Office Space one in-particular. Like, Vader in a maternity-ward staring through the glass, weeping, at a baby labeled “Luke” – totally a bad Empire Strikes Back poster. Briefly funny, maybe… but bad most certainly. (Sorry if I ruined the film for anyone.) Other than that tiny rant, awesome stuff.
That shining one was really cool!
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@ Jonathan I think it would help if we see these not as regular movie posters or any other form of media meant to lead the vierw to the movie. Rather, I see these as creations by the artists and designers to express what they remember and feel about the movies in creative images. The need to reflect the the plot, imagery, or general sense would be out of place here.
That said, for me a few of the pieces here could seriously work well as promo material for movies, particularly, Synecdoche, NY and The Great Dictator.
(And I dig the “Now a major motion picture starring Ernie Hudson” bit. Now someone please do The Crow and feature that line!)
I love that Synecdoche, NY poster!
Fantastic representation!
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very cool list… thanks for sharing
Great lord, cool photos!
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Good work on the crediting. Even better work on the selection of illustrations, you’ve picked out a great bunch
These are great! Nice collection.
Good !
i love The Dark Knight…
unique
Amazing! Love all of the movies posters that I’ve actually seen, and the others are just very well done.
Bravo.
I know someone else commented, but ‘Starring Ernie Hudson’ has me very confused about that ‘I Can Read Movies’ series.
Brilliant post though, lovely work.
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thanks for the post. great pics
awesome stuff… i would love to have the shining calendar
Very Nice post!
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The Charles Chaplin one one is Flawless.
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beautiful illustration there.
the best one is the dark knight.
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See it at: http://www.bitterbalcony.com/content/25-movie-fan-art-posters
Looks very antique. That is the most amazing feeling of all seeing all these images.
Great blog! I love the ones done by Olly Moss!
This is quiet a good one of blade runner! I like the way it hints at the robotic theme!
http://www.creativeillustrator.co.uk/images/BladeRunner.jpg
The Charles Chaplin one one is Flawless.
Very nice design. I was looking for such designs.
keep up the good work.
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absolutely amazing, i pine for posters like these
These are excellent!
They should be on Louvre