I had never heard of Thought Bubble before this year's event probably because I didn't live in Leeds, but this year caught my attention because Mondo are going to have a stall there, selling some of their most popular work but also some of the artists behind that work will also be there.
Unfortunately I am unable to go to Thought Bubble this weekend as it's my little brother's birthday which I had already planned to go home for prior to finding out about this.
This is even more annoying as Mondo are selling a Thought Bubble-only 'Back to the Future' poster which is one of my favourite films, designed by Matt Taylor who will also be there.
"BTTF is basically my dream project and as such is utterly terrifying, because it is embedded in the public consciousness and has it’s own library of iconography that even people who haven’t seen the film will know. On top of that, the previous BTTF series at Mondo are amongst the highlights of their output - so a little bit of extra pressure to live up to there.
For my design, I went back to Struzan’s original concept posters - there is a great one with Marty vanishing from the feet up, and as soon as I saw it I knew that I wanted to use it as my starting point. I think PCC and Laurent have closed the book on using the Delorean so I deliberately stayed away from that and focused instead on Marty and his instantly recognisable features. I used the title block from the original poster and stripped out the rest of the type so that the image stood alone on the page. I’m really happy with how it turned out and I hope that the Mondo faithful dig it as well."
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