Beautiful ‘Old Joy’ Poster
It’s so great when you see really good poster art, and makes a refreshing change from the standard floating heads and terrible use of type I’ve come to expect. Old Joy was a film I had meant to catch at last years London Film festival but unfortunately missed. The film stars an amazing musician called Will Oldham AKA ‘Bonnie Prince Billy’, and was well received at the festival. Here’s the synopsis:
‘Old Joy’ is the story of two old friends, Kurt (Will Oldham) and Mark (Daniel London), who reunite for a weekend camping trip in the Cascade mountain range east of Portland, Oregon. OLD JOY is a minimalist story of friendship, loss and alienation in the Bush era. For Mark, the weekend outing offers a respite from the pressure of his imminent fatherhood; for Kurt, it is part of a long series of carefree adventures. As the hours progress and the landscape evolves, the twin seekers move through a range of subtle emotions, enacting a pilgrimage of mutual confusion, sudden insight, and recurring intimations of spiritual battle. When they arrive at their final destination, a hot spring in an old growth forest, they must either confront the divergent paths they have taken, or somehow transcend their growing tensions in an act of forgiveness and mourning.
You can check out the trailer here
The dvd is due for release on April 9th (here in the UK) and the dvd cover art matches the poster, and I’ll have a review up soon.
[...] other day I posted a great poster for ‘Old Joy‘, which sparked an interesting article over at the guardian blog about great film poster art. [...]
No doubt, a beatifull layout,
but, why doens’t fit for apple’s website traller page?
they’d made a cliche layout…
Yeah this poster is just for the UK, and we use a quad format… mostly…
the american poster suckeddddd.. and made the film look really cheap (which… even if it is… the poster shouldn’t communicate that)
[...] is something I put a lot of value in, and while i’ve talked about it before with films like Oldjoy that had a very beautiful stripped back graphic style that perfectly encapsulates what the film is [...]
It is a beautiful poster. Here are some alternatives from the company that designed it: http://www.allcitymedia.com/posters/oldjoy
[...] responsible is a London based graphic design company called Allcitymedia, I talked about them before as they’re the dudes that put out the great ‘Old Joy’ poster. They’ve [...]
My son (Paul Johnstone) designed this poster, he was so thrilled to discover that it featured in a blog, especially with such nice compliments about it. Drawing has been Paul’s passion since he was very young, and now has a career doing the type of work that he loves. He’s currently got his own company – Monterey Design – if you visit his web site http://www.montereydesign.co.uk, you will be able to view more of his posters.