Client: Salt & Slingshot-Studios. Agency: Franki&Jonny.

The Infidel, written by David Baddiel, is a ‘comedy of epic ethnic proportions’ about a salt-of-the-earth london muslim who discovers he’s adopted and jewish.

Our involvement in in this project began with a title treatment and brand guidelines book. This book has informed all marketing material for the film, from this sales poster to the films titles. You’ll see few Indie’s with such brand impact.

Client: Forward Films.

Directed by Nick Whitfield. Skeletons is a fantastic surrealist comedy about two travelling salesmen in the business of cleaning skeletons out of people’s closets.

The brand we developed for the film’s titles was a fantastic starting point for the print campaign.

The festival poster is an introduction to the film’s loveable leads.

The goggles in the film’s title are worn by our protagonists during the extraction process…

Client: Celluloid Dreams. Agency: Franki&Jonny.

Directed by Todd Haynes. It was a huge honour to work on this interpretation of Bob Dylan’s life in which he is played by, amongst others Cate Blanchett, Heath Ledger and Richard Gere. The challenge to represent 4 major movie stars as a single musical icon was relished and risen to. With a little help from our friends Mondrian and Warhol.

Client: Momentum Pictures. Agency: Franki&Jonny.

Directed by Mike Leigh. The challenge with this poster was to represent the dark side of the film’s controversial story without a visually dark or depressing campaign. We created an image that portrays the parallel lives of Leigh’s title character using a fresh palette and subtle, relevant textures.

Client: Momentum Pictures. Agency: Franki&Jonny.

Directed by Fenton Bailey & Randy Barbato. We developed the UK adaptation for this very entertaining doc about the world’s most famous porno.

We made the glossy lips symmetrical so that they tile beautifully when fly posted…

What is the perfect handout for a campaign like this? ‘Inside Deep Throat’ lollipops of course…

Client: Green Lions. Agency: Franki&Jonny.

David Bond lives in one of the most intrusive surveillance states in the world. He decides to find out how much private companies and the government know about him by putting himself under surveillance and attempting to disappear… The poster’s job was to represent the thrilling chase!

Client: Film4/Potboiler/Tartan Films/IFC FIlms. Agency: Frani&Jonny

Directed by Keith Fulton & Louis Pepe. We developed an extensive online and print campaign to promote this brilliant cult Mock-Rock-Doc about a conjoined twin punk band!

Client: Slingshot Studios. Agency: Franki&Jonny.

Directed by Hana Makhmalbaf. The poster for this beautiful study of a little girl’s struggle to get to school in Afghanistan was aided by evocative stills and a fantastic title.

Client: Mumia Productions. Agency: Franki&Jonny

Directed by Marc Evans. This shocking documentary needed an image that would set up the films unusual premise. The film’s narrator, Will, was born on the day that Mumia Abu-Jamal was arrested under dubious circumstances for murder. Aged 25 Will decided to make a film about this man, still sitting on death row, by going to meet him and finding out more about the poitical climate in Philadelphia 25 years ago.

So how do you set this up graphically? A cake that casts the shadows of prison bars with its candles of course. With thanks to Patisserie Valerie.

Client: Celluloid Dreams. Agency: Franki&Jonny.

Directed by Tom Kalin. We designed this sumptuous treat for the film based on the true story of Barbara Daly, played by Julianne Moore. An ambitious socialite who married above her social status into the bakelite plastics fortune but ended up having a rather questionable relationship with her own son.

We focused on this relationship and depicted the familial unease by visually heightening similarities between their characters to create a creepy reflection of each other.

Client: Celluloid Dreams. Agency: Franki&Jonny.

Directed by Darren Ashton. We had a lot of fun doing this kitsch, sparkly little number for an Australian spoof documentary about precocious tweeny dancers and their pushy parents.

Client: Momentum Pictures. Agency: Franki&Jonny.

Directed by Marc Evans. Staying loyal to the film’s colour palette and continuing the Director’s decision not to use any cuts to black we created a beautiful set of animated titles for this incredibly moving film about grief and friendship in a snowy Canadian town.

To watch the titles click here…

We were then able to evolve our designs into the UK poster campaign.

Client: Momentum Pictures. Agency: Franki&Jonny.

Directed by Atom Egoyan. The key issue here was to avoid the love triangle usually suggested by 3 characters on a poster. This film, starring Colin Firth and Kevin Bacon and a serious skeleton in the closet, is more about celebrity obsession and murder.

We loved the tube versions of these with a half naked Alison Lohan pressed up against the wall as the commuters rushed by.

Client: E1 Entertainment. Agency: Franki&Jonny.

Directed by Gerald McMorrow. This poster offers a window into the futuristic, faith-dominated metropolis of Meanwhile City, the setting for this modern gothic fairytale.

Client: Celluloid Dreams. Agency: Franki&Jonny.

Directed by Bille Eltringham. This British comedy starring Catherine Tate is the story of an English family moving to East Berlin during the cold war. Hence the German flag woven into this traditional family portrait.