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Orange dinca stickers adhered in Brooklyn. Colin T. Campbell makes a soup with signage-landscape and a dinca sticker. Email us if you want a free sticker.

I’m very pleased to have found a large-sized image of Harry Smith’s Tree of Life in the Four Worlds. Filmmaker and artist, Harry Smith, created this brilliant and unique interpretation of the Tree of Life in 1954 when he was employed at Inkweed Arts, a greeting card company owned by Lionel Ziprin. 500 copies were printed in the first edition. The Tree of Life was shown at the Whitney Museum exhibit “Beat Culture and the New America 1950-1965.” The 1997 edition is printed from the original collotype plates executed by Jordan Belson.

It has now been reprinted in a limited fine art edition of 500 on Arches Cover 7″x 28″, available for purchase.

Great films usually have great poster art, and Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris (1972) is no exception. Solaris is Tarkovsky’s filmic adaptation of Stanisław Lem’s 1961 story Solaris. Solaris is a fantastic science-fiction film, wherein Tarkovsky chases the metaphysical, dreams, alternate planes of existence, phantom entities, nodes of the past, present and future, and one’s longing for a wife whom is dead, but appears in present-time feverish visions. A large part of the film is falling in love with ghosts.

Solaris won the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes. During that time, Solaris was compared to Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odysessy; however, it’s known that Tarkovsky disliked 2001 and thought it was cold and sterile. According to Phillip Lopate in his essay “Solaris”, the media pushed a cold war sort of narrative during the time of its making: “The media played up the Cold War angle of the Soviet director’s determination to make an ‘anti-2001,’ and certainly Tarkovsky used more intensely individual characters and a more passionate human drama at the center than Kubrick.”

Steven Soderbergh remade Solaris with George Clooney in 2002.

It’s an undertaking to write about Andrei Tarkovsky’s films, Solaris speaks for itself, so, let’s reference the Criterion Collection’s synopsis:

Ground control has been receiving strange transmissions from the three remaining residents of the Solaris space station. When cosmonaut and psychologist Kris Kelvin is sent to investigate, he experiences the strange phenomena that afflict the Solaris crew, sending him on a voyage into the darkest recesses of his own consciousness. In Solaris, legendary Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky creates a brilliantly original science-fiction epic that challenges our preconceived notions of love, truth, and humanity itself.

As expected, the Criterion Collection released a lavish two-disc Solaris set, worthy of your purchase. Click here to watch an excerpt from the film. Also, the film is available as a $5.00 online rental via the Criterion Collection.

Below are 11 more posters — and two snaps of laser disc artwork — for Solaris.

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Los Olvidados (1950) original french poster

Recipe: 17 Luis Buñuel posters. They’re beautiful.

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THREE ITALIAN POSTERS FOR ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY’S EL TOPO (1970)

Yazav is a computer programer (possible filmmaker?) from Moskow, Russia, who experiments with Javascript and basic web elements — radio buttons, scroll bars, checkboxes — to create avant-garde displays exclusive to the web browser.

If you have Safari or Google Chrome installed on your computer, you can visit his website, the389.com, to mess with this with your own cursor. Some of the pages will work in other browsers, too.

Visit Yazav’s vimeo page here.

Minimalist Monaco-Monospace is my first WordPress theme design for public release. It features minimalist and monospaced typography on a clean, typographic grid. Min. Mon-Mono is very similar to the layout of this blog: it features a sticky footer and two widgetized sidebars. The left is fixed (sticky) sidebar, and the right sidebar is normal and scrolls. This WordPress theme is 100% free for download. If you happen to download this, please send your feedback.

The design features the monaco font, one of my favs; however, only visitors on a macintosh computer will see monaco. Vistors using a PC will see the courier font.

This is the first release, therefore there may be some minor problemos. I’m 97% sure there are no problemos. If there are any problemos, please post here.

Regarding the digital turquoise gem (top of post), I’m designing a collection of bitmap gems; I am using this gem collection in a film I’m working on that is guided by my favorite William Blake poem. Stay tuned!

Please spread the word!

download theme here | live demo

Gyldendal Lanterne Science Fiction
L 225
1974
Norway
Illustration: Peter Haars

The book that inspired a film, which in turn inspired a remake. Originally posted here.

Breaking news: DINCA.org is the first ‘blog’ ever to have stickers printed. Is this an accomplishment? No. Is this statement true? Probably not — I wouldn’t be surprised if The Huffington Post had some shitty stickers printed.

Will Thomas designed these stickers and we are giving them away for free. We will ship them to you for free. Ultimately, we had no reason to print these, and ultimately, we have no reason not to ship them around.

Just email us your mailing address and we will ship them to you (and we ship international). Simple as that.

Imagine how nice your Trapper Keeper XL will look with a nice orange DINCA stick on there. Do you share this vision?

This is a screen shot from an untitled film I’m working on. I used Illustrator to create the patterned design and I’m animating the separate layers using After Effects. I’m excited.

do u lodge (click to enlarge)

Dithered

Julien Ducourthial studied audiovisual media at the Esba, France, graduating from there in 2006. The project Ilbm.info | Interleaved Bitmap | in reference to the amiga computer picture format, was created with artworks inspired by low-tech, graffiti & abstraction.

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Here’s a revised version of some artwork I designed for fun. Back in November, I submitted this to Adbusters Magazine for their end-of-the-year issue, Big Ideas of 2010. Once the magazine hit the news stands, I visited the Barnes and Noble on State St. to see if my design made the cut; It didn’t make the cut, but I was fine with it, because after skimming the mag, I realized that the design didn’t fit the theme of the issue anyway.

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Reissue poster for Jean Luc Godard’s Pierrot Le Fou (1965)

We continue to plow our way through the best, and worst, film posters of the last 10 years. Today, on this good Tuesday, we’ll take a close look at 10 more great works.

The above poster is a lovely re-release of Jean-Lu Godard’s 1965 road film Pierrot Le Fou.

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The 2010 International Film Festival Rotterdam will be held January 27 – Febuary 7. The entire film schedule has yet to be released, but the Rotterdam Festival continues to leak selections, stating “The complete line up of approximately fifteen films in VPRO Tiger Awards Competition will be announced by January 7, 2010.” The poster art has been released and it’s lovely. Dutch design reigns supreme.

Some expect 2010 short film selections will be announced around Jan. 7th as well.

More:

The 2010 International Film Festival Rotterdam

IFFR adds five films to VPRO Tiger Awards Competition

Become an IFFR 2010 Tiger Friend

Teaser poster for The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)

Many films have been released within the past 10 years, and with each film released, there are one or more versions of poster art released to promote the film. There are the teaser posters; the primary posters; the alternate second versions; sometimes even a third version. Multiply the amount of films released within the past decade, let’s say by three, and the sum is titanic (get it, Titanic?). Given this immense amount of posters, Dinca must divide the best and worst posters into multiple posts, and we’ll be posting up until the New Year. Perhaps, if we’re feeling ambitious, we may even select a Top 10 list for the past decade, however, with so many posters, it’s hard to rank, and it’s even more difficult to recall which films had great posters. Well, great posters are memorable — we’ll use that as our guiding light.

What makes a good poster; what are we looking for? Great poster art makes someone want to see the movie even if they know nothing about the film. It propels someone to get on the internet to research the film. Maybe they will go out of their way to watch the trailer instead of waiting around to be force-fed by a convenient television trailer. If the poster is really great, it will recruit an army of patrons, an army that wants to go out of their way to promote the film; spread the word; generate a buzz; hell, even blog about it, notwithstanding they haven’t even seen the film yet.

Certainly, great design and great typography are part of creating a great poster — the design can be innovative or a tried-and-true formula of the past — more importantly, though, the poster must best represent the story of the film, the motifs of the film, the tone of the film, and it needs to visualize the thematic elements of the film. Sometimes film posters are a big let down — usually when a poster propels you to see a movie, and then you watch it, only to find that the movie sucks. When this happens, we should salute the designer, because their design made a shitty movie look worthy of your time.

In addition to teaser poster for Wes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, which is posted above, we have posted nine more admirable film posters below. Feel free to voice your opinions, critiques, and definitely nominate a candidate for your favorite film poster of the past decade, or nominate an atrocious poster. Ride with us as we ride through our mega-list.

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Test Pilot Collective is a San Francisco-based typography and design firm. Pay a visit to their website and you will realize how prolific they are: Throughout the years 1999 – 2003, Test Pilot Collective created a design for every day of every month, which is a grand total of 1,825 uploaded designs. Unfortunately, the Pilot Collective seem to be on a hiatus.

Test Pilot have designed 37 fonts, including Tryptomene, OCRJ, OCRK, and Ataribaby, all of which are available for purchase through their website. Their work heavily embraces ascii artwork, the monospaced dot-matrix composition, ’90s dirt style web design, computer retro, pixel typography, the animated gif, bitmap fonts, and bitmap artwork. They have a neat website; a supposed new Test Pilot Collective website will launch soon.

Below are 15 designs culled from their extensive archive of 1,825 designs.

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