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Traditional Asian art prints have served as inspiration for poster designs.  Common themes of oriental print artworks and photography are nature, people, religion and culture. The images depict either people in respective national costumes or cultural references associated with the country like a red dragon of China or a geisha for Japan. Images are focused on the patterns and fabric of costumes and the body embellishments

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During war, countries fighting for survival are often at the height of innovation, applying their knowledge in a variety of different ways. Biologists, physicists, and chemists are all rushing to create new products for use at home and abroad. Many people often overlook the artists and designers who are also set in motion, creating propoganda and war posters to distribute to the masses. War propaganda posters

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Typography has been around since the 19th century, when stamps were used with rearranged lettering for traditional printing presses. Today, there is a different technique but the general idea is the same.  It is the placement of letters to be printed in a certain order and way, and has become increasingly popular for typography posters, as well as print advertising and marketing. There are many examples

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Movie posters are somewhat less prominent than they used to be, but they are still widely used as promotional artworks for feature films.  When designing a movie poster, some artists opt for minimalistic, other movie posters use computer graphics from the film as the basis.  Some, all, or even none of the plot can be revealed via the movie poster. Here, we’ve gathered up some creative

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While minimal designs in movie posters have always existed they seem to have come back with a vengeance in the last year. Especially online, where fans have been making revamped versions of posters using a minimalist style. They are expressive without being as busy as the traditional glossy, photomanipulated posters that we have always seen lining the outside of movie theaters for years. Another popular style

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Black Swan is a psychological thriller released on December 1, 2010 featuring Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis and Vincent Cassel. Focused around a New York City production of Swan Lake, the relatively dark and moody Black Swan plot resulted in high praise from critics for the film. Although I won’t provide a full Black Swan movie explanation here (to avoid spoiling for anyone), the graphic designs from

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