Summer is for big-budget blockbusters… or so we’re regularly told. Here’s a more low key approach to Hollywood.
Film The Blanks is “an ongoing experiment to abstract and/or reduce film posters.” John Taylor takes pre-existing film posters and filters them through a minimalist design lens, reducing them to the bare essentials. Taylor, intentionally or not, makes a strong case for the importance of graphic design and print media in establishing a film’s identity in the minds of viewers. While it’s fun to figure out what movies go with what poster (it’s actually a game on the website), most fare successful as enigmatic abstractions. Here are some of the more recognizable ones…
A selection of Taylor’s minimized posters are available for purchase as digital prints.
