Why else do designers bang out minimalist film posters? Andrea Lange missed a reason: Because they work great in online thumbnails. Other graphic-design formats – including bedrocks of human civilization like body copy in books – work so badly online that you never see them, but a solid-coloured rectangle with a single figure and some type works just great.
Minimalist movie posters
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