"There is such a wealth of great Star Wars art out there already, from paid professionals and from enthusiastic fans. "It was so intimidating!" the artist told in an e-mail interview. To create original artwork for such rabidly adored films was daunting, Moss said, especially since so many of the visuals are already iconic. The new posters show colorful silhouettes of C-3PO, Darth Vader and Boba Fett that are filled in with detailed imagery from Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. They are the first in Mondo's wildly popular Star Wars series to be crafted as traditional, theatrical one-sheet movie posters. The prints, revealed exclusively by in the first three frames of this gallery, go on sale at a random time Monday. Only Moss does Moss.British poster artist Olly Moss shows his nerdy love for the original Star Wars trilogy in a trio of new posters he created for collectible art house Mondo. “A lot of people compare him with Saul Bass,” he recently told, “but I think he has a lot more range. But Justin Ishmael, Mondo’s creativeĭirector, is frustrated by the Bass connection. “I think it’s pretty obvious when I’m paying homage to Saul Bass and when I’m not,” he says. Typically, Moss is sanguine about such comparisons. Whose movie posters from the 1950s and ’60s for Alfred Hitchcock and Otto Preminger are classics of the genre. Thus, while Cosby’s profile is jet black, his sweater is as obnoxiously colored as the sweaters the comedian famously wore on TV.Īlthough Moss has riffed on Romek Marber’s work for Penguin Books, creating witty what-if covers for Call of Duty, Grand Theft Auto and other video games, the artist he’s most closely associated with is Saul Bass, Then you can play around, turning the expectation on its head.” “When you work in a series,” Moss says, “the restrictions you set up create an expectation of what people think they are about to see. Icons as his subjects, like Bill Cosby, the Simpsons and Solid Snake, the stealthy hero of the Metal Gear video games. Most of these cutouts appeared traditional at first glance, but Moss had tweaked this stuffy staple of Victorian portraiture by choosing approximately 300 pop-culture There he assembled 200 pairs, trios and larger groupings of black-on-white paper silhouettes. Take his spring 2011 show at Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles. This hard-working-minimalist approach throughout his brief career the 24-year-old graduated in 2008 from the University of Birmingham in England, where he studied literature. I kind of like the work to be functional, so it needs to be as simple as possible.” Moss has employed “I tend to prefer things with a really strong idea,” Moss says, “things that are concept-focused. “The Empire Strikes Back” and “Return of the Jedi.” The twin suns of Tatooine doubled as C-3PO’s eyes Bespin’s T-shaped Cloud City mirrored the bounty hunter’s mask theįorests of Endor ended in gnarled branches that drew in details of Vader’s trademark helmet. The coral, gold and teal voids created by their outlines were crammed with information, encapsulating, if not summarizing, “Stars Wars,” Released in late 2010, each three-color screen print in that trilogy was dominatedīy a waist-up outline of C-3PO, Boba Fett and Darth Vader, respectively. Moss’s “Captain America” prints leave the hipster-cool of his Mondo “Star Wars” posters very far behind. As for its Nazi-style lettering, in German no less, But this poster’s evil twin is the apparent handiwork of an Axis artist, who has turned the captain’s mighty shield into an arrow-pierced target. This is Moss at his finest - bold graphics, serious inspiration and a wry sense “A Is for Victory,” it playfully proclaims. One of the prints is dark and heroic, obviously the work of Allied propagandists. “I’m also a massive fan of 1940s propaganda posters, so it was a funĬhallenge to try and capture the style and attitude of that era.” “I’ve liked Captain America since I read Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch’s ‘The Ultimates,’ ” Moss says. They are expected to sell out within minutes of going on sale. Resembling propaganda fliers from World War II, each poster is 18 by 24 inches and screen-printed in a run of 375. is a pair of posters for the film “Captain America,” which storms the nation’s multiplexes on July 22. The limited-edition art print arm of the Alamo Drafthouse theater chain in Austin, Tex. The designer and illustrator Olly Moss likes to keep things simple.
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