Graphic designer gives film posters a pleasing, minimalist overhaul

(Peter Majarich/Craft and Graft)

Film posters are used to get information and tone across pre-release, then collected by cinephiles years after for their artfulness, but unfortunately one use often tends to negate the other.

If produced retrospectively, however, the former can be stripped away, and the film encapsulated by a single theme or emblem from it.

That’s what Sydney-based designer Peter Majarich has been doing ever day for more than half a year now, with his series 'A Movie Poster A Day'.

Focusing on classics and latest releases, Majarich shows restraint in his designs.

Alfred Hitchcock’s Birds is simply the word written with a murder of crows. Moneyball is a baseball with dollar sign seems. Memento is written backwards.

Here’s a handful of our favourites, though they’re amazingly consistent given their prolificness:

Majorca’s company, Craft and Graft, are selling prints of some of his best designs.