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July 18, 2011 04:24 pm PDT
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Olly Moss's new Captain America posters
In the New York Times T Magazine blog, our pal Ben Marks of Collectors Weekly profiled designer/illustrator Olly Moss, whose work we've featured on BB several times. Most recently, Moss created limit edition posters for the new Captain America film. From the NYT: One of the prints is dark and heroic, obviously the work of Allied propagandists. "A IS FOR VICTORY" it playfully proclaims. This is Moss at his finest " bold graphics, serious inspiration and a wry sense of humor. But this poster's evil twin is the apparent handiwork of an Axis artist, who has turned the Captain's mighty shield into an arrow-pierced target. As for its Nazi-style lettering, in German no less, it's downright creepy... "I tend to prefer things with a really strong idea," Moss says, "things that are concept-focused. I kind of like the work to be functional, so it needs to be as simple as possible." Moss has employed this hard-working-minimalist approach throughout his brief career; the 24-year-old graduated in 2008 from the University of Birmingham in England, where he studied literature. "Design was a hobby that took off," he explains. "Poster Boy Wonder" Lovely Star Wars posters - Boing Boing Shoot the Baddies - Boing Boing...
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