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I designed a Steve Jobs Movie Poster (Well Alright, Three)

Mike Davidson has just announced the final Mike Industries iPod Creativity Competition: Design a Steve Jobs Movie Poster. I’ve pos­ted the fol­low­ing three entries…I’m up against some ter­rific com­pet­i­tion, so fin­gers crossed!

Silence of the Podcast

My first go. I had ori­gin­ally thought of remak­ing the ‘Saw 2′ poster by exchan­ging fin­gers for pods, but as I was look­ing for source mater­ial I came across the ‘Silence of the Lambs’ poster. Somehow that got me think­ing of Podcasts — and the rest was history!

Steve's Angels

During my research for the Saw 2 poster I also found an art­icle about movie posters using two fin­gers to indic­ate a sequel. Among the posters lis­ted was the Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle poster…mmmm. Looking at that poster, my mind nat­ur­ally pondered how easy it’d be to fit in a Nano into Cameron Diaz’ hand. Thus “Steve’s Angels” was born.

Anatomy of a Shuffle

Saul Bass’ Anatomy of a Murder poster + Ipod’s ad cam­paign. I’ll say no more except that if you look closely, you’ll see some nice details! (Isn’t as good as the iZom­bie though.)

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2 Responses to “I designed a Steve Jobs Movie Poster (Well Alright, Three)”

  1. Pat Collins says:

    The first one looks like Ashton Kucher (how­ever you spell it), still pretty good.

    The second one is the best one, I think, but the lower­case “t” kinda throws me off.

    Everything about Apple is straight edges and roun­ded corners, so I don’t know where you got inspir­a­tion from a jagged-edged poster, even if it is from Saul Bass.

    Just my 2 pennies.

  2. AkaXakA says:

    You’re quite right Pat — the t is dead wrong…funny how I over­looked that.

    And about the jagged edges: I decided to make the poster resemble the ori­ginal as close as pos­sible, and jagged edges are an essen­tial part of the design.

    Lastly — I’m sure Ashton has a much slim­mer face! It’d kinda hid­den here, but Steve’s face is really, really broad.

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