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Summarizing Movie Plots with Icons

Can you guess which flicks these represent?

By Rain Noe - May 28, 2015

in Visual Communication

H-57 is the Milan-based creative house started by art director Matteo Civaschi. Several years ago they created buzz with these posters designed for charity, in collaboration with Lucasfilm and Make-A-Wish Italy:

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So what do you do as a follow-up to rendering iconic characters out of fonts? H-57's "Life in Five Seconds" series, comprised of "Stories for those with no time to waste," broke the human experience down into a quickly-digestible progression of icons:

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Eventually, H-57 evolved this concept into a "Film in Five Seconds" series. See if you can guess the following flicks:

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"Film in Five Seconds" was first printed in book form, and has now been excerpted into purchaseable posters. You can find them for sale over at My Modern Met.

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