Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Cars 2 retro posters [UPDATE]

This set of four retro-inspired Cars 2 posters showed up online this morning at Empire.

I'm still waiting to confirm who the artist is, if an individual is to be credited.

At first glance, I thought these were by Eric Tan, who has created retro posters for Pixar before, most recently for Up. But now I'm hearing that that may not be the case.

Regardless, all four posters are very cool. The London- and Tokyo-themed designs are the ones I'd most like to hang on my wall. You?
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Update: Pixar's publicity department tells me:

"The original inspiration for these "vintage racing posters" came from Harley Jessup at Pixar. However, there were many people who had a hand in the illustration, design and finishing of this art within the Disney and Pixar team."

(Updated Mar. 9)

8 comments:

Guitarlynn53 said...

Those are awesome posters,I would like to hang then in my room:)

Lindgren said...

Simply awesome. London- is my favorite. "Porto Corso" reminds me of "Porco Rosso" from Studio Ghibli. :)

Anonymous said...

Is there any website you would recommend for buying Pixar retro posters? (not from one movie in particular, i'm interested in all of them..)
Thx!

Alexandro Fantino said...

AAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWEEEEEESSSSSSSOOOOOMMMMMEEE!!!!!!!!! I want the four of them!!! Jeez! Pixar has this lovely way of making me want to watch Cars 2 even when i didn't trust in the project at first glance.

Mike said...

Anonymous: The Disney Store?

Alex said...

Am I the only one horrified by the gaping chasm that is the kerning between the K and Y in TOKYO?

Cars Toys said...

These are great posters. I want to get them all!

Karla Rae said...

Question! I have these 4 posters, but they don't say the "June 24" on them. Does that mean that they aren't worth anything?