In Japan, the rep for many modern movie posters is that they’re not cool. The ones distributors create for the local market are often criticized for lacking in style. Shame, because there are truly awesome one-sheets being done, many of which are totally unofficial and totally fantastic.
Sony's big screen adaptation of Patrick Jean's outstanding games-versus-real-life animated short scored a trio of new posters today, evoking far greater majesty than a movie starring Adam Sandler has any right to.
In the wake of the ridiculously awesome propaganda posters put up by police in Eastern China, another Chinese police force has come out with a set of awesome photos. This time around, instead of letting the locals know who's watching, a police department of south west China's Sichuan province is looking for recruits!
Deviant Artist and Halo fan Scourge07 combined his penchant for art with his passion for Bungie shooters to create a series of wonderful minimalist posters, one for each game in the series.
Sif, a boss from Dark Souls, is looking mighty fine on this mighty fine poster by artist Gibbs Rainock, who you might remember is not new to the Dark Souls poster business.
Artist Marinko Milosevski has created another trio of Legend of Zelda posters, adding A Link to the Past, Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword to the list of games that he's created designs for.
Etsy is just chock full of gems like these mashup style posters by Robert Mangaoang. Making sense of two themes mashed together is a little delightfully head scratchy.
The "Soviet propaganda" art style has been trendy for fan art lately, and that's what artist Joseph Baranowski's Pac-Man themed design project seems to have started as. But I think the best part are the two above: posters for Ghost University!
We keep hearing rumors here and there about a Mass Effect movie in the works. As much as I love the franchise, I'm not sure I ever really want to see one. My Shepard is, well, my Shepard, and any movie starring someone of that name is unlikely to tell the story I preferred having told.
If your school library was anything like mine, then it had a ring of old posters around the perimeter, high on the wall where no librarian could reach to change them, trying to convince children that reading is cool.
Designed by Kotaku reader Marinko Milosevski, these fake movie posters make me want to watch a film based on Shadow of the Colossus. And Majora's Mask. And Super Metroid. And Ocarina of Time. And Ico. And Wind Waker.
You know that one sparse wall in your bedroom? Graphic designer Terry Mack has it covered. Literally.
In the making since January, these propaganda posters will motivate you to keep fighting the good fight in Battlefield 3.
Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, but three is a trend in design. Kode Logic joins the minimalist movement in video game design with this five-poster tribute to the iconic cast members of Street Fighter.
Last year, Briton Ashley Browning gave the world a great set of minimalist video game character faces. Now, Justin Russo gives us minimalist video game...chests.
A 2K forum poster holding a random blacklight session with his friends discovered scrawled secret messages on the three BioShock 2 posters that were packed in his special edition. Creepy!
Just up in Club Nintendo's rewards catalog is a three-poster set, one of which depicts the twelve iterations of Link, beginning with the original Legend of Zelda in 1987 continuing through the Phantom Hourglass 20 years later.
