Designer of the Week

[bazzah]

This weeks featured designer is Cirus!

Please join us in celebrating Cirus by posting one or more of your favourite covers he's made thus far.

It doesn't matter if the cover has already been posted by someone else.

It is a great shame that Cirus no longer creates covers, as he had some really exciting designs.

Click here to see Cirus's uploads in our cover gallery


To share a cover from the gallery, just click the 'copy' icon, in the file information, and paste it into your reply.


Here are three of my favourites:


Looper (2012)



Man of Steel (2013)



The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

[weyn]

Def one of my favorite designer from back in the days, also one who understands the power of a good vignette and/or gradient.

Top 3 for me:

Cirus established an impressive number of franchise covers, with giving each franchise and even each title a unique design. Alongside Star Trek, Die Hard, Alien, the MCU and others, I particularly dig his Star Wars cover series, each time showing a pivotal scene from the respective movie in a dramatic style plus the roman number in a huge display in the background, and Episode I is probably my top favorite out of the bunch.


Next we have his fantastic cover for Psycho. The character collage and the infamous house make for a great front key art. The back boasts with a sleek, slightly tilted stills row and strangely enough, the main picture of Norman Bates looking through the window always gets me.


It's amazing how one can make a neat, official-looking key art just with a simple film still and some supplementary edits such as colorgrading and throwing in some effects (sparks). The dutch angle also adds to the action style of course.

[ctaulbee]

Congrats Cirus the Alien set was a fav of mine as well

[Bunny Dojo]

Cirus' covers have such wonderful, fine-tuned imagery, with a real talent for finding (and/or creating) what feels like the definitive shot from a movie. Resident Evil: Retribution is a great example:





On National Treasure, his individual covers have an incredible back layout with double-stacked stills, but his combined cover for both films features an equally stunning layout... I'll pick both.







Two of my all-time favorite designers are Arkflip and Cirus, and I'm a big fan of what each of them achieved for The Last Samurai:

[RRJR84]

[M0vieM0nster]

I for one loved the way cirus started making the star trek series covers... watched them as a kid and these are probably the best out there...



Also loved the Die Hard...



And of course, i loved the cover presented during the battle, for Argo... Amazing!

[tmscrapbook]

Another great choice - GREAT designer

[VincentLupo]

Congrats on the recognition!

Here are a few of my favorites.

[abendhei]

Great choice, great designer.
Congrats to the nomination.

List a few other great covers:



What a lovely collection



Great color combination with a cool front compilation



As it has been wrote down before: Cirus has a great talent to find and create a big picture with lot of fine details. With this pictures he really hits the soul of the movie

To bad that he is no longer active in the cover scene.

[robe77]

I started everything on his covers .... a standard for me :-).
I love your style.....So thank you very much!