Vasilis Marmatakis on Creating Film Posters for Yorgos Lanthimos
Vasilis Marmatakis, a Greek graphic designer, shares his unique approach to designing film posters for Yorgos Lanthimos' movies, which often explore human anxieties and fever dreams.
Marmatakis' design process involves unconventional methods, including water play and manipulating thousands of images. He also has a deep understanding of the human face as a canvas.
- In the poster for Bugonia, Emma Stone is depicted with molten honey pouring over her bald head, looking petrified.
- The Favourite's poster features Emma Stone sitting on Olivia Colman's stunned face, alongside Rachel Weisz.
- The Lobster's poster shows Colin Farrell hugging an invisible silhouette, with faces nearly disappearing.
His design process is all worked out through water play, thousands of images mutilated and spliced together, and an acute understanding of the canvas that is the human face.
Before becoming a professional graphic designer, Marmatakis was a student at Camberwell College of Arts in London, influenced by the British electronic music scene of the early 1990s, with artists like Black Dog, Aphex Twin, and Autechre.
Author's summary: Vasilis Marmatakis creates unique film posters using unconventional methods.