James Verdesoto is a graphic designer who's masterminded the visual marketing for countless movies, including iconic posters for "Pulp Fiction" (when he was creative director at Miramax), "Girl, Interrupted" and "Ocean's Eleven." Today, Vanity Fair puts him to great use with the release of "Movie Poster Expert Explains Color Schemes," a fascinating YouTube video that actually does a lot more than decode the use of color.Verdesoto takes a walk through cinematic history and beyond, identifying visual elements (e.g., the "running figure with a gun" common to thrillers) that connect with everything from John Grisham paperback book covers from the '90s to film noir to punk-rock flyer graphics. And when he does talk about the deployment of color, it's especially eye-openinglike when he examines the black-and-white-and-orange combination (as seen in posters for "Ghost Rider," "Tokyo Drift," "The Transporter" and more) vs. the blue-and-orange ("The Bourne Identity," "The Dark Knight," "Star Wars," "Avatar").It's a mini master class in design-meets-marketing that comes in under 11 minutes. (It's also a sequel of sorts to Vanity Fair's "Every Marvel Movie Poster, Explained," also starring Verdesoto and released in December.) Continue reading at AdAge.com Continue reading at 'Advertising Age'
[ Advertising Age | 2019-03-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hogwarts Legacy comes out next week. It is, bar none, the biggest video game to ever use the ever-popular Harry Potter license. A Dragon Age-style open-world RPG, made by Warner Bros. Games and Avalanche Software (recently of the scuttled Disney Infinity), it’s kind of a huge deal. The... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2023-02-03 15:30:00 UTC ]
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Netflix's 'One Piece' is based on the popular manga series of the same name by Eiichiro Oda, who is also an executive producer of the show. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2023-01-30 17:14:27 UTC ]
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Tracy Kidder joins the L.A. Times Book Club to discuss "Rough Sleepers," about a doctor's mission to bring healing to homeless people. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2023-01-26 22:03:03 UTC ]
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Visnick will helm U.S. operations and drive growth for the 25-year-old graphic novel and manga brand. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2023-01-19 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Greenlight Bookstore welcomes Will Alexander, finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, to introduce Divine Blue Light, his new collection of poems from the intersection between surrealism and afro-futurism, where Césaire meets Sun Ra. Will Alexander’s poems constitute an alternative... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2023-01-12 09:52:43 UTC ]
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Remember Ray’s Occult Books, the rundown Manhattan bookstore opened by an unmoored Ray Stantz between Ghostbusters I and II following the city of New York serving him and his fellow ghostbusters with a judicial restraining order for the property damage incurred during their city-saving battle... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2023-01-09 16:53:03 UTC ]
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A curious setting in Adobe Photoshop’s privacy preferences has the artistic community on edge this week. A recent viral moment highlights just how nervous the artist community is about artificial intelligence (AI). It started earlier this week, when French comic book author Claire Wendling... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2023-01-06 09:45:00 UTC ]
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‘Young Goodman Brown’ is an 1835 short story by the American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. Inspired in part by the Salem witch craze of 1692, the story contains a number of powerful symbols. But how should we analyse the symbolism of the story? Let’s take a closer look at the most […] Continue reading at Interesting Literature
[ Interesting Literature | 2022-12-30 15:00:29 UTC ]
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If you need a break from the hustle and cheer of the holidays, there’s nothing better than the ultimate escapist genre: sci-fi. This year has been a good one for those who like their entertainment off-planet or otherwise removed from our reality. We finally got a Predator sequel that isn’t... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2022-12-26 14:15:37 UTC ]
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Netflix's penchant for live-action manga remakes isn't going away any time soon. The streaming service has revealed that it's partnering with Legendary Entertainment on a live action My Hero Academia movie. Anime and manga adaptation veteran Shinsuke Sato (Alice in Borderland, Bleach) will both... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2022-12-12 20:16:38 UTC ]
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Amazon shows off its notepad-like Kindle Scribe, “the first Kindle for reading and writing.” Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2022-12-12 18:44:20 UTC ]
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Bernard, a senior designer in the Penguin Black interior design department who worked on books by Lauren Groff, Ruth Ozeki, Ocean Vuong, and others died on November 18. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-12-11 05:00:00 UTC ]
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"Little Fires Everywhere" author Celeste Ng brings her new bestseller, "Our Missing Hearts," to the L.A. Times Book Club. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2022-12-08 22:36:02 UTC ]
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The iconic wooden marionette is given new life in a stop-motion film adaptation of Pinocchio directed by Guillermo del Toro, premiering on Netflix on Friday; we spoke with Caldecott Honoree Vera Brosgol about her work as head of the storyboard department. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-12-08 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Jane Smiley is a master of plot, with multiple awards for her novels, including the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle award for A Thousand Acres (King Lear as set on an Iowa farm circa 1979). She’s also distilled her years of teaching and cultural criticism into a superb writing... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2022-12-06 09:53:58 UTC ]
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Watch this week's featured trailer: DUNE: THE OFFICIAL MOVIE GRAPHIC NOVEL by Lilah Sturges! Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2022-12-01 11:31:00 UTC ]
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The upcoming Microsoft Designer is a visual art design tool that you simply must try for yourself. It’s simply one of the best consumer apps Microsoft has ever made, following in the footsteps of Clipchamp. Why use Designer? Two reasons: AI art and templates. In Designer, you can combine... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2022-11-30 21:59:02 UTC ]
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'My Father's Dragon,' inspired by the 1948 children's novel of the same name by Ruth Stiles Gannett, is now streaming on Netflix. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-11-22 05:00:00 UTC ]
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In a star-studded night that celebrated more than 40 publishing professionals, Tordotcom Publishing editor Ruoxi Chen walked away with the top prize and used her moment to call attention to the HarperCollins union strike. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-11-16 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Greenlight welcomes poet and author Emma Bolden for a virtual evening celebrating her new book, The Tiger and the Cage. This exquisitely wrought debut memoir recounts Bolden’s lifelong struggle with chronic pain and endometriosis, while speaking more broadly to anyone who has been told “it’s all... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2022-11-10 09:52:30 UTC ]
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