If this snowbot doesn’t melt your heart, nothing will. And who can look at these faux movie posters and not smile?
Kevin Dart is another Comic Con find for me. (Did I mention Comic Con rocks?) I picked up his book, Fleet Street Scandal, created in collaboration with the equally wonderful Chris Turnham.
I asked Kevin to tell me a little about the poster project:
“The titles and images typically evolve together. Sometimes a title will spark an idea, but it rarely stays the same all the way to the end.
The posters were a natural result of my combined love for illustration and graphic design. I always find myself wanting to
add text to my illustrations because I enjoy typefaces and layout so much, and posters are a good outlet for that.
Also, a lot of my favorite artists were great movie poster illustrators, such as Robert McGinnis. I also enjoy the work of Bernie Fuchs immensely, whose illustrations often appeared alongside text in magazines. So I find that illustration and text go together very naturally fo
r me.”
Recently, Kevin created backgrounds for this Beijing Olympics animated commercial directed by Gorillaz creators Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett. After watching the animation, go check out Kevin’s blog to get a better look at his landscapes and beautifully rendered Bird’s Nest.
