Poster Mountain

Since it's Halloween, I have been compiling a list of the staffs' favorite horror movie posters. The guys had multiple favorites, picking both posters for the art's sake and ones where they liked the movie. The girls, well, we struggled a little more with this one. However, I think we have a pretty awesome and spooky range of posters. Robin's pick is "Screaming Skull" because she liked the movie, plus how can you pass up the offer of a free burial if you die from fright. Gabe's choice was "The Thing" because it's the only horror movie poster he owns. We also got lucky enough a few months ago to see an original drawing of The Thing by Drew Struzen. Melissa pick was "The Black Cat." Then after a moments thought also added the one with the aliens whose heads look like Brussels sprouts. John clarified for me that this was a poster for the movie "The Invasion of the Saucer-Men."    Junior went with

In 1939 the US was looking back on the Great Depression and forward to the possibility of war with clouds of conflict looming overseas, but they were also looking towards what they hoped would be a brighter future. (Sounds kind of familiar, right?) Technology was thought to be the hope that would spark a turning point in a new world order and the 1939 New York World's fair had exhibitions from all over the world that demonstrated this dream of a better future through technology. And as you might expect, the posters from the fair show the sleek, modern and sometimes futuristic design style that was starting to become popular. And as the title and this brief history lesson suggests, we have the restoration of a New York World's Fair poster as this week's featured project. Pictured: You know when a client tells you to be careful opening the package its never a good thing. This particular package contained a poster that was broken in half. The poster depicts the iconic T

In January we put up posts about a project that has been ongoing for a long time, the Black Pirate poster. (Click here and here to see the old posts) Just to review, the Black Pirate poster is a 1926 silent film starring Douglas Fairbanks. It is a rare movie poster and the owner of this particular one bought it glued to a board at a garage sale. It has been living in the studio for the past few years in various states. First deteriorating on a board, then removed from the board in pieces before the surviving segments were linen backed. The paper that was missing was added back in. Then it sat in the studio for another few months because even for Poster Mountain this is a big project to tackle. When you last saw the poster it looked like this... I feel compelled at this point to talk about the difference in levels of restoration. John has always emphasized that any work we do, whether it is just conservation or a major restoration project like this, should maintain the integri