He returned with a battered box and some airbrush work on art card. He said anybody could make things look good in colour, but it had to be only one column in the Evening Standard and it had to really hit you!' At this point Castle jumped up and asked me to wait while he fetched something. 'His first concern was the poster had to work in black and white. This drawing was sent to Castle by Stanley Kubrick Photography Steve Mepsted I said: "Why don't you let me have a go?" When you get a call from the great Stanley Kubrick, well, there's no question. 'I had already successfully worked with Stanley Kubrick on Clockwork Orange and he rang me again asking if I knew anyone who could do a painting like Saul Bass. The latter is possibly one of my favourite, top 10 films,' he told me. 'My two favourite films of the time were 2001: A Space Odyssey and Dr Strangelove. It was never used, Photography Steve Mepsted He brewed a pot of tea and we started by talking about how Stanley Kubrick contacted him for the design of Full Metal Jacket.Īn unfinished poster for FMJ. A sprightly and softly spoken man, he was generous with his time and, quite unexpectedly, he made some of his fantastic archive of work available for me to photograph. Using the resources of The Stanley Kubrick Archive, held at the University of the Arts London Archives and Special Collections Centre, researchers were asked to make links between images, popular culture, writing and film, among other material, in an attempt to understand the Vietnam war in the context of the modern-media battlefield.Įarly pencil sketches for the poster design for Full Metal Jacket, Photography Steve MepstedĪs part of my research, I was invited to visit Philip Castle at his home. My meeting with Castle arose by chance out of involvement in a research project called NAM: Media, Popular Culture and the Vietnam War, part of the Masters course in photojournalism and documentary photography at the London College of Communication. He also counts among his back catalogue artwork for album covers including David Bowie's Aladdin Sane Pulp's His 'N' Hers Metronomy's Night's Out the Rolling Stones' It's only Rock 'n' Roll (But I Like It) and Paul McCartney's Wings tour, along with countless posters for advertising campaigns, book covers and illustrations. Philip Castle is a British illustrator, most widely known for his airbrush creations of the iconic posters for Stanley Kubrick's Clockwork Orange and Full Metal Jacket, not to mention Ken Russell's The Boyfriend, Tim Burton's Mars Attacks and Jack Nicholson's Goin' South. Here, Castle opens some old boxes filled with treasures and shares the experience Working closely with film maestro Stanley Kubrick, who seemed to have a thing for hats, illustrator Philip Castle created the iconic posters for two of his key films, Full Metal Jacket and Clockwork Orange.
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