WEB POSTER EXHIBITION - Foundations of Typography: Where to put the text ?
received from our Research Departement

During an investigation into the sociological aspects of a restricted subsample of movie posters, our research departement came across a groundbreaking poster, using advanced research tools that can search billions of pictures in split seconds. The various versions of the poster by Dan Chapman for the award winning movie The people vs. Larry Flynt provide a detailed answer to the question that has plagued poster design for more than a hundred years: Where to put the text ?

Movie poster designed by Dan Chapman, before text,

Google images search tool, using one of the poster images below as search input. It finds hundreds, maybe thousands of identical or similar pictures.



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Please see the pinwall on Pinterest for the picture sources.


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