Matt Ferguson has gone from working at HMV to designing posters for the world's biggest films.
Matt Ferguson's Return of the Jedi poster was unveiled ahead of the film's 40th anniversary"There must've been a couple of thousand fans there. It was like watching a band with lasers and music, and there were people in the audience with lightsabres going crazy," Matt Ferguson recalls with a wide-eyed grin.
The 39-year-old from Sheffield was no stranger to depicting Luke Skywalker's battle against Darth Vader having been commissioned to create a poster for The Empire Strikes Back's 40th anniversary in 2020.Ferguson's artwork for The Empire Strikes Back was a hit with fans of the Star Wars franchise "With Return of the Jedi, it's Luke's story so I have him at the centre of proceedings with Vader looming large."The illustrator used Jeff Goldblum's "must go faster!" line from the film as inspiration for his 2018 Jurassic Park poster
They wanted a copy of a Hulk illustration Ferguson had posted on social media for the Hollywood star. Where hand-painted efforts by the likes of Alvin and his contemporaries Drew Struzan , Bob Peak and Richard Amsel were once the norm, the 1990s saw a shift towards more formulaic composition with airbrushed photographs of movies' stars becoming dominant.
Tim Doyle, Mondo's art director from 2004 to 2009, remembers selling posters in the cinema's lobby as well as pitching in as the "cook, waiter and ticket taker". Small print runs of between 50 and a few hundred posters were eagerly snapped up by fans and collectors.
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