Drew Struzan, you may not know this name, but you are certainly familiar with his work, especially if you are a child of the 70s and 80s.
It is with great sadness that we learn of the passing at the age of 78 of this legendary illustrator who, after having cut his teeth on record covers (The Beach Boys and Earth, Wind & Fire), remained in our memories with unforgettable film posters: The Empire Strikes Back, The Goonies, Blade Runner, Back to the Future, to name just a few.
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Impossible not to recognize his style, a photorealistic pencil drawing and a dense composition, teeming with details while highlighting the main protagonists. One glance and you're already in the film, even before you've seen the first frame. "Drew made event art," Steven Spielberg said in a statement (via Variety). "His posters transformed many of our movies into destinations... and the memory of those films, as well as the times we discovered them, is instantly reminiscent of just looking at his iconic, photorealistic images, in the style he himself invented. No one drew like Drew."
