When Gutenberg’s Bible was printed in 1455, it changed the world. Its historical significance is unquestionable — no history class would fail to mention it. But what could we say about this book in a graphic design class?

Dynamic symmetry is a proportioning principle which can we used to achieve eye-pleasing compositions by aligning elements to a special kind of grid. Examples of this found in literature were always on some old piece of art. Naturally, I had to apply it to movie posters. After my introductory post, here’s nine new examples of great movie poster designs, compared to the dynamic symmetry grid.

Grids are hard to avoid in design. Although some people nowadays offer advice on breaking (or forgetting) the grid, it’s been a useful tool for a long, long time. And not only in design—art, architecture and handwritten manuscripts have relied on grid to provide structure even in Ancient Greece. This article gives a short intro to dynamic symmetry and explores some examples using movie posters…

Until a few weeks ago, I've never seen an Albanian movie poster. That, luckily, changed after a small exhibition in Zagreb, a part of the Film Mutation Festival. Those eight hand-drawn posters on the movie theater's lobby wall made quite an impression on me and I immediately felt what I saw must be the tip of an iceberg, one I was anxious to explore. The only problem was—Google knew next to nothing about Albanian movie posters.