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Editorial Design

Superman Movie Poster

This is a personal concept project imagining a theatrical campaign for a fictional Superman release. I designed the poster first, then mocked it up across a few real placements to see how it would actually read on a billboard, in a subway station, and outside a theater.

Role Poster & Campaign Design
Tools Photoshop, Illustrator
Category Editorial Design
Timeline 1 Week
Superman movie poster mockup lit up inside a bus shelter ad panel on a rainy city street at night
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Approach

This project was really an excuse to focus on typography rather than the poster's overall composition. The key decision came from a memory: I used to draw the Superman shield by hand as a kid, and I pulled that same shape language into the custom lettering here, so the type carries a bit of that personal history instead of leaning on a generic superhero font.

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Poster Placements

Superman movie poster mockup displayed on a lightbox ad panel in a subway station, with a train pulling in behind it
Superman movie poster mockup framed in a movie theater lobby next to a now showing marquee
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Typography

Custom Superman wordmark typeface specimen sheet showing uppercase, lowercase, numerals and punctuation
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Merch Mockups

Three Superman branded movie tickets fanned out on a blue background
Superman branded popcorn box overflowing with popcorn on a red background
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Reflection

Working on this campaign taught me how much a design changes once it leaves the canvas and sits inside a real environment. The billboard version reads completely differently from the theater version, even though the artwork underneath is nearly identical.

If I extended this project, I would design a placement made specifically for a phone screen, since that is honestly where most people would see a poster like this first, not on a billboard.