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Reinventing movie posters – the work of Olly Moss

By Sammy Maine, September 13, 2013

Olly Moss has generated quite a bit of controversy due to the nature of his career. It started out as innocent fan art, picked up illustration as a hobby and looked to movie poster designers such as John Alvin and Saul Bass as highlighted by Maine (2013).

Moss is a gifted artist, he immediately excelled at illustration and graphic design in his versions of posters based on existing movies and video games and by following in the great designer’s footsteps he established his art style. The controversy is that although his designs are unique and of high standard the subject he is depicting belongs to someone else, technically speaking, he is infringing copyright law in his work.

(Moss, n.d.)

However, the creators of the movies and games he created fan work off of have not yet come forward to object his work. Not only have these companies allowed him to continue creating fan art, even to a commercial extent, but some franchises have also shown their support for his renditions of their posters. They probably embrace it due to the following Moss has generated himself, resulting in “free publicity”, so to speak. He even got to work on official posters like Sony’s Resistance 3 cover.

(Moss, 2011)

Some of his more famous work in pop culture would be the Harry Potter series, Star Wars series and the ones he did for Marvel’s Thor, after being commissioned by the people at Marvel themselves. He created some beautiful artwork for the characters Thor, Loki, Odin, Heimdall and Darcy, depicting them standing under a bold of lightning forming the shape of Mjolnir with the quote, “The battle for the earth is over, the battle for the universe ends to begin”. (Lussier, 2013)

(Moss, 2012)

Even though Moss is “borrowing” both subject and style through the source of his influence his ideas for the works are still quite unique and original, as well as of high quality with his eye for detail and the perfect mixture of minimalism and negative spaces. There is no denying that he has been of great influence himself on modern poster design in pop culture.

Maine, S., 2013. Reinventing movie posters - the work of Olly Moss. [online] Creative Bloq. Available at: <http://www.creativebloq.com/movies/posters-olly-moss-9134408> [Accessed 10 Jan. 2017].

Lussier, G., 2013. Cool Stuff: Personalised Olly Moss Cast and Crew ‘Thor: The Dark World’ Posters. [online] SlashFilm. Available at: <http://www.slashfilm.com/cool-stuff-personalized-olly-moss-cast-and-crew-thor-the-dark-world-posters/> [Accessed 10 Jan. 2017].

Moss, O., n.d., Optical Illusion #1. [online] ollymoss. Available at: <http://ollymoss.com/#/optical-illusion-1/> [Accessed 10 Jan. 2017].

Moss, O., 2011., Resistance 3. [online] ollymoss. Available at: <http://www.creativebloq.com/movies/posters-olly-moss-9134408> [Accessed 10 Jan. 2017].

Moss, O., 2012., Thor: The Dark World Posters. [online] SlashFilm. Available at: <http://www.slashfilm.com/cool-stuff-personalized-olly-moss-cast-and-crew-thor-the-dark-world-posters/> [Accessed 10 Jan. 2017].

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Fanzines and Fan Creations

(herr-rau, 2014)

This week I focused more on my thesis. I intend to focus on fan made art, both in a historical aspect and how copyright affects it. The first fan made material recorded were fanzines, publications consisting of poetry, short stories, novels, and illustrations playing tribute to a subject. The subject could be almost anything, from famous person, to tv shows and movies, to books. The subject’s following is referred to as a fandom.

Most fanzines are made to express a fan’s love for their interest and to share with the rest of the fans. Although this practice is not exactly completely legal in terms of trademark and copyright most creators are not in it for the money but are at most times lucky to break even with the cost of manufacturing the ‘zines. As writer ljconstantine (2009) describes it, “it’s a labor of love”. She describes the issue of attempting to make profit from fan made items as not only illegal but morally wrong. The intellectual property is not yours, you are borrowing someone else’s characters and therefore it’s not yours to sell.

I agree with this notion in both written form and illustration. Yes, you would have created your own material, your own plot in regards to literature or your own artistic effort on drawings, but finally the content you used was not your own creation and therefore no profit should be made from any fan made items. Fanzines are not the only issue here. Artists today are making profit from selling their art on merchandise, creating jewelry and even publishing fan-fiction novels as books.

If an artist intends to use any material based on an anther’s intellectual property they must first contact the original creator and ask for permission. Sometimes agreements can be made which would suite both artists, if not the fan must respect the decision and refrain from perusing their original plans.

Ljconstantine, 2016. A 'zine! A 'zine! My Kingdom for a 'zine! [online] Available at: <http://ljconstantine.com/column5.htm> [Accessed 25 Nov. 2016].

herr-rau 2014. Fanzines. Lehrerzimmer. Available at: <https://www.herr-rau.de/wordpress/2014/02/fanzines.htm> [Accessed 25 Nov. 2016].

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coming up with a logo

For the logo I wanted to create something that was dynamic, the design is simply the name in a circle but the circle could be filled in with any image that celebrates Maltese culture.

The biggest issue I found was creating the perfect filter that fits any image so that the text could still be easily read without overpowering the pictures

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Book binding

This term we have a unit on tactile graphics and part of the syllabus is learning book binding. at first I was somewhat skeptical about it and was thinking it was almost a waste of time but three lectures in and I’ve learned to love it.

There are many benefits to binding your own books, especially at this point in our lives as students. With all the time spent at school and working on assignments we don’t get a lot of time left for time at a job to earn a bit of money to cover any expenses that may come up. Book binding can help in that aspect as it is cheaper to produce than buying sketchbooks.

For me the process is quite relaxing and I’m up for challenging myself to go to the next step but looking and how some of my peers are finding it difficult I concluded that book binding requires quite a bit of patience, something that I definitely do not lack personally.

It’s also a great exercise in learning to be neat and exact in any work. To get the best results you first have to plan the pattern, measure out the space accordingly and make sure everything lines up perfectly. Then the holes must be punched, being careful not to tear the papers and line the tread up as best as you could.

It’s important to pick the best style for the project accordingly. The end results if done properly can also be something amazing and a piece of art in itself, helping you get some extra points in presentation.