Patrick Svensson's laconic movie posters

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

How to make a poster of a famous movie using a minimum of artistic means? To the Swedish designer Patrick Svensson, who develops laconic posters of films loved by millions of viewers, enough significant details, as well as letters or numbers from the title of the film. For example, to encrypt the "Matrix", the artist depicted a red and blue pill. Posters of movie masterpieces, created by a talented illustrator, are interesting to look at - and to unravel.

To some extent, the ancestor of minimalist posters can be considered the ancient Greek artist Apelles. Arriving at the studio of an eminent colleague and not finding him on the spot, Apelles left that "autograph" - he drew a very graceful line on the canvas (none of the local painters, except him, could depict such a line). By this line, the colleague immediately guessed who paid him a visit in his absence.

The work of Patrik Svensson pursues the same goal as the laconic drawing of Apelles - to ensure recognition with a minimum of pictorial means. In addition, our contemporary and his ancient Greek counterpart are united by resourcefulness and wit.

Patrick Svensson is a 28-year-old Swedish illustrator and graphic designer with a passion for visual arts and cinema. Both passions of the talented author merged into one, and the result of the work was a funny series of minimalist posters.

So, the poster of the movie "Butterfly Effect" plays up the first letters of the name ("Butterfly Effect"). The capital letters B and E become the wings of a butterfly. And two deuces, facing each other, form a heart and symbolize the comedy melodrama “Two Days in Paris”.

The author of creative posters appreciates fiction and humor in film posters, noting that without humor, any work is dead to him. In addition, he likes it when designers interact with the viewer, inviting him to play. It usually turns out to be very exciting. And Patrick Svensson himself always tries to interest the audience, leaving room for the audience's imagination.