51 Inspirational Vintage Movie Posters
In the pre-Photoshop days, designers used classic designs and hand drawn art to make some of the best movie posters of all time. Image editing software helps a lot with the creative process now; but today’s digital artists can still learn a good deal from studying vintage poster designs that worked, and still do.
Inspired with that idea, I’ve collected some of my favorite vintage movie poster designs. I hope they also inspire you with new (and old) ways to capture the essence of design in your own work.
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Cat Johnson - November 23rd, 2009
Thanks for the inspiration. I especially love the minimal Jimi Hendrix poster with the simple yet spot-on typography. There are so many great styles here – lots of eye candy and design ideas.
Great post.
Arvin - November 23rd, 2009
Wow, there are some cool obscure movies on there that actually make me wanna look those movies up now! Great job!
Callum Chapman - November 23rd, 2009
Excellent post! I love vintage movie posters ;D
Parth - November 24th, 2009
Superb Collection. Really great.
elisa - November 24th, 2009
all of these are great! some are dated, I’ll always love the A Clockwork Orange poster.
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Jason Aiken - November 25th, 2009
Really Cool!
Thanks,
Jason
jayesh - November 26th, 2009
Really great post. There are so many great styles here a lots of eye candy and design ideas.
w3planting - November 26th, 2009
nice collection, thanks for sharing
Joe Magnetic - November 26th, 2009
So many great movie posters, makes you want to watch the films. Really like the “a many splendored thing” poster.
Thanks for sharing.
Anna Green, Web Design - November 26th, 2009
I don’t even now where to start, some of these posters make me feel almost sick, I think im going to have to start collection movie posters! I juts need a house to put them in and im laughing. Great collection!
Oliver Web Design - November 27th, 2009
Some really great vintage movie posters here. Haven’t heard of a few so I’m going to have to look them up because they look interesting. Thanks for posting these.
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Waheed Akhtar - November 27th, 2009
amazing! thank a ton
cintia - November 28th, 2009
Metropolis is the best! As perfect as the movie, always present. Thanks for sharing.
Autonomy - November 29th, 2009
Great collection. Thanks for compiling such a fun list of classics to enjoy.
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Waheed Akhtar - November 29th, 2009
nice collection
Igor Lukyanov - November 30th, 2009
Oh, how I love those vintage things! Great collection! Really cool!
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Lucinda - eightyone design - December 3rd, 2009
Love The Birds poster, so simple yet so striking!
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I Love them all! Really like the Logan’s Run one!
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Azterik Media - December 4th, 2009
Great post! I currently own the Logan’s Run and A Clockwork Orange posters. Did you find all of these images at one website in particular? Thanks for taking the time to put all these works of art together for us!
Cheers,
Cheryl
Azterik Media
Chris M - December 4th, 2009
What about this, my all time favourite:
http://celluloidhope.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/rosemarys_baby.jpg
Also, Kubrick’s films had some beautiful posters.
Chris M - December 4th, 2009
This one too.
http://img.listal.com/image/75019/500full-straw-dogs-poster.jpg
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I can’t believe this!! I am literally RIGHT in the middle of a post on vintage movie posters!! Grrrrrrr. Now it’s going to look like I stole your idea. Haha. Oh well…
halftime - December 5th, 2009
amazing love these
designfollow - December 6th, 2009
great collection, thank you.
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katie - December 8th, 2009
I love them all. The godzilla one has got to be my favorite, they both look like they are dancing on the buildings. I wonder whether the designers of these would appreciate the digital design age we are in now or think that traditional methods offer more character
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AC - December 14th, 2009
Great compilation of amazing work. Thanks for sharing.
Derek Kimball | DesignBuddy.com - December 20th, 2009
It’s great seeing design from different eras. The typography as well. Thanks for the post.
Tori - January 4th, 2010
Great collection. I was really happy to see Metropolis on here. What a great flick.
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Stephan Czepanik - January 8th, 2010
wow these are really good, I love the star wars one but maybe its because I just love anything science f.