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THE TEXT, a Comedy Poster for Amazon Studios’ Talenthouse Contest

Gary Irwin — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 09:49:13 +0000

Here’s a look at a quick poster I designed for THE TEXT. A submission for the “Comedy Poster for Amazon Studios” Talenthouse contest. In the end, I didn’t win…but it was a ton of fun and I’m really happy with the way it came together. Look for it in it’s permanent home under my portfolio section sometime soon.

11 of my Favorite Illustrated Horror Film Posters

Gary Irwin — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 22:05:50 +0000

I recently stumbled onto a FearNet post covering some of their favorite Illustrated Horror film posters, and while their list is solid, I feel like it left off a few of my all-time favorites. So, this list was born. Plus, I’m bored with top ten lists, so this one goes to 11!

Did I miss one of your favorites? If so, post it in the comments section below!

Credits: I couldn’t have pulled this list together without the help of Well Medicated’s list of 100 Illustrated Posters. These posters were grabbed from IMP Awards and Wrong Side of the Art.

Dogman Movie Poster

Gary Irwin — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 18:31:16 +0000

Whipped up this fun little poster after reading this Buzzfeed blog post, which included a “Dogman” holding an ax, among a list of 60 stock images said to be completely unusable. I respectively disagreed and this poster concept was born.

Thanks to my partners @ Doomed to Be Awesome for creating the tagline and the D2BA Facebook fans for voting.

5 Fake Criterion Covers for Horror Films

Gary Irwin — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:59:17 +0000

Inspired by Fake Criterions and pulled from Doomed to Be Awesome’s Top Ten Awesome Horror Films, here are Fake Criterion Collection Covers for POLTERGEIST, ALIEN, HELLRAISER, A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET and THE DESCENT (#6-10 on the list.) My goal is to design the entire top ten list over the next few weeks, so keep an eye out for 1-5 over on my Tumblr.

Project 365 (August)

Gary Irwin — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 20:14:53 +0000

Below are days 213 to 243 , but If you dig what you see, you can check out the entire series here. Was able to do a few theme weeks this month including “blue week”, “green week” and a long exposure series entitled “Philadelphia @ night” where I shot my personal favorite “227/365, Broad Street.”

As always, comments, feedback, etc is not only appreciated, but encouraged. Hope you enjoy viewing all of these as much as I did taking them.

Sevilla “Bike Lane” iPhone Wallpaper

Gary Irwin — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 21:06:29 +0000

Here are 3 iPhone wallpapers that I created using a few photos I took during a recent trip to Sevilla, Spain. The first two were designed/re-sized for the iPhone lock screen, while the last one makes a perfect homepage background. You can grab all my wallpapers over @ Flickr.

Test Text here…what happens to the line now?

Project 365 (July)

Gary Irwin — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 01:43:36 +0000

Below are days 182 to 212 , but If you dig what you see, you can check out the entire series here. My personal favorite for July is “208/365, Jelly Bean Massacre.” No interesting themes this month, but The Philadelphia City Paper did feature one of my photos of Maxwell for their July 28th issue. Not too shabby!

As always, comments, feedback, etc is not only appreciated, but encouraged. Hope you enjoy viewing all of these as much as I did taking them.

My Top 10 Coen Brothers Films

Gary Irwin — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 03:09:37 +0000

Anyone who knows me, can attest to the fact that I’m a huge Coen brothers fan. I’ve been man-crushing on Joel & Ethan for as far back as I can remember. I even wrote a paper deconstructing the sound design in Barton Fink for a class in Film School….super cool, right? Besides being amazing filmmakers, the Coens usually dazzle us with beautiful key art as well. So I decided to head back into the archives a bit and come up with my top 10 favorite Coen films (using the films’ one sheets, of course). Now, these are ranked by film, not by the poster design…so get off my back. Enjoy!

: 1. Barton Fink (1991)

: 2. Fargo (1996)

: 3. The Big Lebowski (1998)

: 4. No Country For Old Men (2007)

: 5. Miller’s Crossing (1990)

: 6. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

: 7. The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

: 8. Blood Simple (1984)

: 9. Raising Arizona (1987)

: 10. The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001)

this is a temp fix

Project 365 (May)

Gary Irwin — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 11:12:13 +0000

Below are days 121 to 151 , but If you dig what you see, you can check out the entire series here. My personal favorite for May is “138/365, Big Mouth” hands down. Started a new series called “Desktop Monsters” this month and I’m loving them. Hopefully will have more of these little guys throughout the year. We also took a trip to Sevilla, Spain so you can see a select few shots from that trip towards the end of the month.

As always, comments, feedback, etc is not only appreciated, but encouraged. Hope you enjoy viewing all of these as much as I did taking them.

Project 365 (April)

Gary Irwin — Sun, 01 May 2011 10:44:17 +0000

Below are days 91 to 120, but If you dig what you see, you can check out the entire series here. My personal favorite for April is “120/365, Italian Market.” Saturated colors, symmetry and orange. Can’t beat that! Also, this is one of a few pictures that I experimented with using some post color processing techniques.

As always, comments, feedback, etc is not only appreciated, but encouraged. Hope you enjoy viewing all of these as much as I did taking them.