Mad Men is (Almost) Upon Us....
At MCG, we’re pretty geeked up for the return of Mad Men (… and The Walking Dead… and Breaking Bad… and pretty much every other show on AMC).
A few months back, Mad Men released a couple new promotional posters for the upcoming 5th season. These were designed by the South African firm Radio.
The still life approach fits the Mad Men era. And I really dig the illustrations. It’s all computer generated but made to feel like a vintage poster. The designer also has a good sense of composition and space, using varied shapes that fit together like a puzzle.
There’s great attention to detail, particularly on the Lucky Strike cigs and the Canadian Club whiskey. Although the concept isn’t super creative, I still like the posters because of the detail on each element.
The vintage feel of these actually reminds me a little of the work of Olly Moss, who does a lot of re-imagined movie posters. He typically takes details from old movies and uses them to create a totally new poster – and he always avoids the typical floating-head-montage-with-obnoxiously-large-title format.
Moxie Creative also did a series of minimalist re-creations of movie posters in 2010. These posters were inspired by what the wardrobe of the main characters. The series was called “Dress the Part.” Very cool!
