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I like this one.
Grant: "Let me demonstrate good trigger discipline, old man."
Bond: "Let me demonstrate bad trigger discipline... On your friend's helicopter!"
Alternate universe Skyfall, where Bond shoots Patrice off the train and Moneypenny stays at her desk.
From Russia With Love was one of the more difficult ones I had to work with because the artwork for it doesn't do a good job representing the movie, then it randomly hit me to use the close up of Bond and do the same thing but with Grant instead.
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Aha, you changed his hairstyle. Clever touch.
Actually I recreated the whole pose which was made from these two pictures.
The picture of Roger was taken from this image.
And the picture of the Walther P5 was from this image.
:D
https://illustrated007.blogspot.com/2012/12/license-to-kill-poster-concepts.html
https://illustrated007.blogspot.com/2012/10/license-to-kill-poster-concepts.html
https://illustrated007.blogspot.com/2010/04/exclusive-interview-with-steven-chorney.html
https://illustrated007.blogspot.com/2014/12/interview-with-brian-bysouth.html
From the last post (Interview with Brian Bysouth):
Licence to Kill 1989
Feref were asked to submit ideas for the newest Bond film and I took part in the design process. We created a lot of ideas but getting approval became more difficult. Unlike previous campaigns, the concepts were widely circulated, we suspected more people were involved in expressing their opinions and as a result the process became very drawn out. We suspected it was 'design by committee', some of our best ideas were so altered, that the originality and excitement had been lost.
Eventually, the design that became the poster was selected. A very bland, ordinary, photo montage which sadly marked the demise of the painted James Bond Poster. We employed a body-double for the running Dalton figure, the model came to our photo department and I helped to art direct the shoot, I still have the contact sheets. A very large, photo-montage was begun by Frank Hillary, a director of Feref and a very talented and experienced photo-retoucher. He did his best with the piece but privately, we all thought that it was the least distinguished Bond Poster ever. I have seen on the web, that Robin Behling has been credited with the design. As Creative Director of our company he can claim that distinction, but perhaps it may amuse him, if I politely maintain, there were also others to blame for how it turned out.....
Love the iguana too-- great motif. It's huge shame these posters weren't used.
I made this one for Licence to Kill like 5 years ago and I'm quite proud of it. I'll include my TLD one too since they both carry a very similar theme. :D
Will we ever see the return of decent Bond posters? *sigh* (official ones, I mean ;) )
So, that spooky mysterious flaming hand belonged to Sanchez' ghost?
http://www.universalexports.net/Movies/license-hand.shtml
Sanchez the hand of fate. ;)
I like those as well. Reminds me of that wonderful FYEO poster!
I hope we get to see the return of decent Bond posters. Illustrated ones is probably more unlikely. I know Empire Design did the SP campaign, and I think they've done every campaign in the Craig era. Those CR posters were good, so we know they can do something more interesting than what we saw with SF/SP.
I like what they did here:
http://empiredesign.com/film/Free-Fire
Here (the bottom one):
http://empiredesign.com/film/High-Rise
…and here (Danny Boyle connection!):
http://empiredesign.com/film/T2-Trainspotting
If you look at the rest of the posters on the website they are of course very well made (typography, photos, colours etc), but probably a bit similar in that there's a lot of characters just standing there. I don't mind a bit of minimalism, though (in fact I love it), but you need that little extra to "make it pop".
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Edit!
A bit off topic, but I found the SP posters over at fontsinuse.com - and in the comment section, one of Empire Design's designers explains the usage of the font Gotham for the SP logo. Always fun to have some insight into the process:
Wonderful to see this on this blog. I designed the Spectre logo as part of my role as a senior at Empire Design. We have worked on the last 4 Bond movies.
On the question of the ubiquity of “Gotham” as a typeface, I totally understand this argument, but the decision was practical as much as it was aesthetic. We’ve just finished adapting the title style for use in something like 20 different languages. The letterforms of Gotham lend themselves perfectly to adaptation for an audience of this size.
The general public don’t see yet-another-instance-of-gotham, they see an ominous word picked ominously out of darkness with a 007 logo beneath as a confident, knowing sign off.
I can’t wait to actually see it incorporated into the title sequence.
This is his first:
Hell, yeah! Looking forward very much to what's to come.
Is this a pose originally from Connery? I have not seen an image of him like this.
Like this ones (from his web page):
Amazing.
@00Agent I can take you money off your hands.
If you get me these posters in return. ;)
Edit: Illustrated 007 have an interview with Mann:
https://illustrated007.blogspot.com/2017/02/interview-with-artist-paul-mann.html
Really like this one! There's something about James Bond movie stills in b&w that just feels right, if you ask me. :-)