49: John Alvin

The Poster Boys

Kicking off the start of a new year, The Poster Boys dive into the work of the legendary poster art of John Alvin, who found notoriety as an artist at Intralink Film and Graphic Design before establishing Alvin & Associates with his wife Andrea in the early 1990s. From Blade Runner to Beauty and the Beast, Brandon and Sam look back on and discuss the process behind some of the most iconic film posters ever created between the mid-1970s all the way through the early 2000s.

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SHOW NOTES & LINKS

John Alvin Art The Art of Andrea Alvin ArtInsights Interview with John Alvin ArtInsights Gallery - Alvin Originals Titan Books Interview with Andrea Alvin The Art of Movie Posters: Interview with Andrea Alvin Amblin Road: Interview with Andrea Alvin The Hidden History of the Jurassic Park Logo by Craig Caro The Art of Bob Pepper (CORRECTION: Bob Pepper did not recently pass away, as Sam said on the show; He has been passed away for a long while! We apologize for the goof, and recommend you check out his art nonetheless!)

Music selections: “Bass on Titles” theme; Remembering Childhood from HOOK (1991); The Goonies 'R' Good Enough from THE GOONIES (1985).

Thank you to our patrons: Jay Shaw, Aschley Fish, Max A. Butler, Midnight Marauder, Makiko, Jacob Lindström, Matthew McCarthy, DRW, Scott Saslow, Matt McKee, Dafna Pleban, Robert Ewing, Juan Motoa, Tim Cook, Andrew Elmore, Daniel Mouton, Neven Udovicic, Logan Norris.

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Produced by Adrian Cobb

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