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Posted by Michael Waltzer on September 12, 2011 05:29 PM

Let’s get visual! Posters are always a popular medium of visually conveying messages, whether it is an advertisement or just a statement. Case in point: the eyecatching Back for the Future campaign poster by La Boca, above, promoting the Nike MAG (aka the "Marty McFly sneaker") release and eBay auction to benefit the Michael J. Fox Foundation.
On Friday, Nike’s tweeted links to four posters for the Back for the Future Nike MAG campaign. For these, Nike commissioned four well known graphic designers for different variations of the posters.

By Kate Gibb

By Will Sweeny

By Brent Rollins
TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON POSTERS:
The Alamo Drafthouse had commissioned artist Jesse Philips for a limited edition Transformers: Dark of the Moon poster as part of their Mondo shirt series. Here is the original and a variant:

And a variant:

STAR WARS EPISODE IV, V, AND VI POSTERS:
With the release of the new Star Wars Blu-ray DVD coming up, check out three of the coolest Star Wars posters around - Olly Moss’s Starwars posters for collectible art house Mondo.



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