![]() ![]() He has served in the editorial department of Blender magazine, as an editor at Amplifier magazine, and, since 2007, editor of Manhattan Movie Magazine.Star Wars 11x16 Mondo Art Poster Print by Olly Moss Marlow Stern works for The Daily Beast and has a master's from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. ![]() Plus: Check out Art Beast, for galleries, interviews with artists, and photos from the hottest parties. People seem to really dig it, so now I’m able to make a career out of it.” The prophecy is true: the geek shall inherit the earth. “I just made things based on what I was really interested in, and being a massive nerd, I was really interested in films and video games. “Art for me was always a hobby it was never a viable career option,” he says. The gallery will feature 100 unique Moss pieces, including a 3D installation. He describes the exhibition as “very pop-culture-y,” and very movie and video game-related. “It’s going to be very, very nerdy,” says Moss, with a chuckle. What most excites Moss, however, is his first solo art show beginning May 7 at Gallery 1988 in Melrose, California-the same gallery where his work was discovered by the bigwigs over at Marvel. While he is dabbling more and more in hand-drawing, his posters were made using Photoshop and Illustrator, “because you can look at things from different angles, import things from other images that people have already done, and compare and synthesize different images, rather than working on a piece of paper.” Moss has branched out doing illustrations for The New York Times and The Guardian, and is commissioned by Empire Magazine to design a new movie poster illustration every month, including a “rude” entry for Sex and the City 2 showing a high-heeled shoe and an almost subliminal penis in the heel’s negative space. His favorite book on tape: History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr. Moss enjoys listening to audiobooks while he works-a habit, he says, to make up for all the reading he didn’t do in school. “That’s one of those ideas where you think, ‘I can’t believe no one’s ever done this before,’” says Moss. ![]() “The one I was most happy with was Dirty Harry,” which showed the profile of Clint Eastwood’s intense face outlining the inside of a smoking gun. “I picked three colors, kept them to a very similar style, and went from there,” says Moss. He then did a trio of posters for the first three Star Wars films, until he was given his biggest task to date: curate a series of posters for The Rolling Roadshow-a series of outdoor screenings last summer sponsored by The Alamo Drafthouse and Levi’s. It was an homage to the classic poster for Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo designed by Saul Bass and garnered a huge online following. His first commissioned poster was of Locke for the viral campaign surrounding the ABC show Lost. The poster took off online, and Moss did eight more with the same color scheme. Moss started doodling around, and the result was a clever poster for The Deer Hunter depicting six circles as revolver chambers, with one of the circles filled with a bullet. Fraught with post-college malaise, he was browsing online one day and came across Now Showing -an exhibition at the Cosh Gallery in London where classic film posters were recreated by popular artists including Hellovon, Nathan Fox, and James Joyce (not that James Joyce).Ī creative spark was born. “That’s where I realized that film is a really cool way to grab people’s attention.” The shirt won Threadless’ Bestee award for Design of the Year (People’s Choice) for 2007, which came with a $10,000 prize-and plenty of exposure.Īfter graduating in 2008, Moss moved back in with his parents in Winchester. “It hit the blogosphere and people responded to it in a big way,” says Moss. On Easter 2006, Moss fused his love of film and design into Spoilt, a black T-shirt covered with a smorgasbord of red and white graphics depicting twist endings from movies. The college had no art program, so he went rogue, doodling ideas for T-shirts and making them with what little money he could scrounge up. Despite neglecting his schoolwork, Moss was able to skate by on his natural smarts, and was accepted into the University of Birmingham. I was super obsessed.” In the meantime, Moss would also accompany his mother to work at her graphic design agency. “I would copy him out of magazines and draw him again and again. “I used to remember drawing Sonic the Hedgehog when I was super young,” says Moss. The first movie he really loved was 1986’s animated Transformers: The Movie, which he describes as “THE film when I was super young.” When he wasn’t geeking out on movies, Moss, a precocious child, spent his days doodling on his schoolbooks. Moss grew up in Winchester, London, and soon developed an obsession with film. ![]()
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