Design/Film: Rolling Roadshow 2010 Posters

To celebrate this year's Alamo/Levi's Rolling Roadshow tour, in which nine nights free cinema will take place with a view to screening seminal movies in distinct locations appropriate to them, a series of supremely attractive posters have been designed by the talented and iconic Olly Moss (find other examples of his graphic bravado HERE).

I think you'll agree that they are great pieces of design, and very refreshing. Some are retrospective nods to the great Hitchcock and Preminger posters of the 50s and 60s, designed by legendary artists like Saul Bass, and others embrace more modern techniques of over-laying and shading. My personal favourites are 'On The Waterfront' and 'Rocky'.











It's a shame that the Rolling Roadshow is an American event, and those of us over here will not get the opportunity to watch The Godfather: Part II on a rooftop near Little Italy in NY, or Rocky I, II and III on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum Of Art (imagine!!!), though there are similarly grand and inventive screenings in the UK by projects such as FutureShort's Secret Cinema and the Somerset House Summer Screen festival, and hopefully this trend of outdoor film events will continue.