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Vasilis Marmatakis on the strangely traditional ways he creates Yorgos Lanthimos’ film posters

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What goes into the poster and title design for films steeped in human anxieties and fever dreams? For the Greek graphic designer, it’s 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. Share Share Molten honey pours over a bald Emma Stone as she looks up, petrified, mouth agape, in the poster for Bugonia. In The Favourite, the actor switches positions and is the one sitting on the larger-than-life, stunned face of a supine Olivia Colman, alongside Rachel Weisz. For The Lobster, faces nearly disappear as a nerdy, bespectacled Colin Farrell hugs an invisible silhouette. Before Vasilis Marmatakis started distorting Hollywood faces for a living, he was just another student at Camberwell College of Arts in London, fascinated by the burgeoning British electronic music scene of the early 1990s dominated by Black Dog, Aphex Twin, Autechre; amazed that he could attend any gig listed in the NME.

Words Arman Khan — Date 20 October 2025 Tags Features Film Graphic Design Typography Poster Music Process Vasilis Marmatakis on the strangely traditional ways he creates Yorgos Lanthimos’ film posters What goes into the poster and title design for films steeped in human anxieties and fever dreams? For the Greek graphic designer, it’s 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. Share Words Arman Khan — Date 20 October 2025 Tags Features Film Graphic Design Typography Poster Music Process

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