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| casualco.com | The Casual Connoisseur LTD 'Arthouse' |
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| move mouse over for more images - clockwise from left to right:- Happy Mondays Bummed, Jimi Hendrix Electric Ladyland, Captain Beefheart Trout Mask Replica, Velvet Underground Andy Warhol, Johnny Cash Folsom Prison, David Bowie Low, Mothers of invention Weasels Ripped My Flesh, Aphex Twin Come to Daddy, Beatles Abbey Road, The Clash London Calling, Roxy Music Country Life, Joy Division Uknown Pleasures, The The Soul Mining, Frank Zappa The Man from Utopia, Scorpions Lovedrive, Rolling Stones Their Satanic Majesties Request, Madness One Step Beyond, Led Zeppelin Houses of The Holy, Chemical Brothers Push the Button, Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine |
| We did a collaboration with Cult Classic Prints - makers of fine Canvas Prints. With their co-operation we created three brand new pieces of artwork to release as highly limited edition prints. Please note the prints are now all sold out. |
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| From WIWP 'NOW SHOWING' - A collection from a bunch of creative artists of a re-imagining of film posters. The Lost Art of the Film Poster. Featuring their takes of classics and lesser known gems. Recently updated with new additions. A great collection that hopefully will continue to grown and be an ongoing, growing collection. To the right is a slideshow of a selection of the works including new entry's for The Man With Two Brains and Midnight Cowboy BELOW - Our own 'quick take' on some classics Dead Mans Shoes, Meantime, The Firm and Get Carter Dead Mans Shoes is rather self explanatory, going with a simple image. The Firm is inspired by a certain cult 'Good Cop' film from the 70s, while we did our own take on Mike Leigh's classic bleak tale Meantime, Ken Loach classic KES, Rita Sue and Bob too and everyone's fave 'kids' film The Goonies, featuring the Oregan (Astoria) coastline as seen in the film. |
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| The Art of the title sequence takes an in depth look at the opening 'credits' to movies. From graphics and illustrations and how on a fair number of occasions - what follows at times fails to live up to the 'opening sequence'. |
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| Rather than a generic studio photo of Tom Cruise or Seth Rogen with forced, ironic Hollywood smiles like you'd see on a monthly copy of Empire. The likes of Little White Lies do their own thing, with cool, quirky unique covers, backed up by a decent read too with top notch content, a breath of fresh air and in keeping with the whole ethos of art in film and the film poster as an art form itself. Nearly a decade ago, I bought the then brand new and now what is sadly defunct HOTDOG magazine, I ended up with every issue which I still have. Their first issue had the Taxi Driver poster as a cover, how cool is that? it leaped out of the shelf in Smiths, stick your boring run of the mill magazines with your airbrushed a-listers.They weren't for me, this was. {continues} |
| After 83 months of reading the best film magazine, I guess not enough people shared my feelings and they weren't buying it, as a result it came to an untimely and abrupt end without any warning when the final curtain was pulled in Christmas 2006. Luckily a few months earlier a new magazine had arrived. Little White Lies was very similar, even better! This time a fantastic sketch of Bill Murray as Steve Zissou was winking out on the shelves of borders. I'd not heard about it but there it was. The power of ARTWORK on the cover alone made me need to purchase it. Something they've stuck with too, with a range of excellent covers, highlights being the This is England and Let The Right One in ones for me, but all are great. I hope they do stick with it! It sets them apart from the others, it's like a rebel, non-conformist and inside, the content doesn't let you down either. It's definitely the best film magazine out there. Long may it continue! Lets hope more and more people read it, it deserves it. |
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| Browsing Flickr recently we stumbled across these cracking photo's of Manchester at night. 'Round Our Way' is a great set of some familar locations caught with great panache. |
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| The posters of the Paris 1968 uprising comprise some of the most brilliant graphic works ever to have been associated with a social movement. Politics aside, from a design standpoint they are second to none. The artworks were not superfluous decorations meant to beautify office walls -instead they took center stage on the streets in provoking awareness and action. Amazingly enough, the posters were all anonymous creations, the result of collaborations between idealistic students and striking workers. To this day not a single artist has been credited for the provocative artworks. |
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| NOT a movie poster shows the posters that the suits decided NOT to choose and (cliche or not) they are often better than the official chosen ones. Enjoy viewing posters that until now you'd never be able to. |
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| Kirk Demarais' crazy Family Portraits. Featuring The Griswold's, the Torrences and Navin Johnson's adopted family! |
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| For less than the price of a pint you can purchase some snazzy casualco art - comes proffesionally made on high quality 200 gsm card. Comes with envelope so you can send them to someone you like's birthday or special occasion or frame and mount them up yourself. Exceptional Quality as seen below. Click here to go to our page and view or buy cards, film, music, cult, casual. Please Note - if ordering for a specific date, please allow up to 14 days for delivery. |
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| A look at some of the coolest film posters ever produced, from the 60's to the present day, as you'll see quirky artwork and clever photography is what we like and it never goes out of style either. Be it striking sixties artwork from 1962's The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner and Point Blank from 1967, to controversial 1970's Britain with Straw Dogs and A Clockwork Orange. Eye catching simplicity such as An American Werewolf in London and The Godfather, to out and out pain stakingly life like portraits like Indania Jones, Taxi Driver and guilty pleasures of the 80's Vacation and Police Academy. Plus some great European takes - High Plains Drifter and hard hitting French movie Irreversible 2002. Mouse over for more images and bigger versions. |
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| Ben Lamb is a very talented illustrator and designer based in Manchester. After studying fine art at university, he worked as an editor in animation for 3 years before deciding to pick his pencils back up and start drawing again. He shares very similar tastes to us in films and popular culture in general. |
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| Old, new, modernist, guerilla. To shock, to please. controversial, commercial! Propaganda, used as a voice, used to silence or as a call. ' Art' takes many different forms. Art is the biggest tool in advertising or promoting something from every side of the fence, an illustration, graphic or even a piece of text is used to get a point across. Here we appreciate all forms and attempt to pay a nod and a wink to a selection of people we feel are doing it well. |
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| Some of the best independent film poster sites : |
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| The greatest showdowns in film history - amazing stuff from Scott Campbell |
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| The Dude Designs aka Tom Hodge, is a poster designer and illustrator who's aim is to bring back the artwork from the film poster and video covers of yesteryear. Recently he did the splendid job of the Hobo with a Shotgun poster and his style is excellently retro reminding a lot of us of our youth, trying to rent Commando or Dawn of The Dead from the local video shop cum off licence aged 10! |
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| Peter O'Toole (no not that one, this one) is a freelance Yorkshire based illustrator. We first commissioned some artwork as a collaboration but were so happy we had some more done and then some more again! Well it's easier to say we love his freehand style and collage work that he's now on board as a regular Connoisseur collaborator. A co editor of Dirtcheap magazine, you may have also seen his work for NME, Addict, Activision, Microsoft and The Rig Out. |
| Andy Watt is the latest on board as a Connoisseur collaborator. His unique and distorted caricatures offer a very different kind of illustration. His work is regularly seen in the likes of The Guardian and The Observer. |
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| 2011 saw the start of our collaborative releases. Thus far we have worked with others to bring several T-shirt collabos, we hope it to be an ongoing process using established and up and coming artists and brands to realise new product. First up was a collab with Peter O'Toole Pinup. Second came a collab with our Swedish brethren at Our Culture. Third is a collab with long time cohort Section 76 with the Essential Kit design. Then we have a collab with Ben Lamb on the way at some point! And with popular demand Peter O'Toole brought us a second design with an amazing Stone Roses tee. Next up is Andy Watt for another new and completely different style. The 2nd collab with Our Culture is a sterling bucket hat which should pave the way nicely for 2012 and some more clothing based collabos! Watch this space. |
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| Graphic Desginer Section 76 has been onboard for some years now as a regular collaborator with our tee designs and also lots of other artwork and graphics, most notably the excellent clothes tags, of which several new ones make their bow in 2012. His smooth graphics have been superb in bringing us the likes of Connoisseur Man, The famous Subb Dresser and a fantastic take on cult film The Wanderers logo. We continue to work with him and watch out for a new "3 tone" play on the Ska designs. |
| Minty is the latest on board. His joing the good ship connoisseur came about in a different way - our first creative competition whereby we offered a chance to design a tee. Minty's won. His Serpico themed design hit the right notes with the added quirk. Minty's style is different, in this modern computer age, he's happy at home using the very original way ofcreating art with paint and a brush! |
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| Artyom Chernov and Mila Mijanovich of Moscow first joined the connoisseur brigade with a splendid design based around the famous image of The Beatles crossing Abbey Road. Featuring a mountaineer, a beatle, a dresser, Bjorn Borg and Alex Delarge as their droog and leader (which is re-released in 2012) Our Russian comrades have done us tee no.2 with a fantastic revolutionary themed tee. |