
Bloch said the artist’s work caught his eye while he was leafing through a design magazine.
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Merv Bloch said he and his ad agency, Rosebud, which specialized in movie advertising and trailers, designed and developed the “Raging Bull” poster from a photo of De Niro, then hired Mr. He produced art to promote “Star Wars” and “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.” His image of “Conan the Barbarian” decorated its VHS boxes and DVDs, Costello said. His detailed illustration of the tattooed face of a carnival worker was “exquisite,” Seed said. “He was immensely talented,” said photojournalist Suzanne Seed, Paul’s widow. Art Paul, who designed Playboy’s famous bunny logo, has died in Chicago at 93.“Kunio was probably the greatest ‘face man’ that ever picked up a brush or pencil,” said Jim Costello, his friend and agent. Hagio’s portrait of De Niro as “uncannily lifelike” when it was offered at auction in 2000. You cannot remember the film without first remembering the poster.”Ĭhristie’s described Mr. Kunio Hagio’s masterpiece is a classic cultural icon. We strive for this when we make a poster for a film: to encapsulate the experience in one striking image.

The design of the sweat, the staredown, the hair - everything comes together to give you a taste of what the experience of this film will be like. “This is a case where the painting puts more intensity and emotion than I imagine the reference photo was able to do,” said Baillie, who has designed many movie posters, including the one for “The Silence of the Lambs” that shows star Jodie Foster with her mouth hidden by a death’s-head hawkmoth.
