Being the avid Akira fan that I am, I was intrigued by the release of a limited edition leather jacket fashioned after the one worn by Kaneda in the film as well as a number of collectible pins. I’m pretty sure the coat would look diabolical on me but that doesn’t stop me from thinking [...]
Spanish designer Hexagonal, has created a project of distilling film posters to their fundamental elements. Some of them are absolutely brilliant, unsurprisingly I’m quite a fan of his adaptation of Akira. I leave you with a selection of his work below.
Much like the iPhone, I wasn’t quite convinced with Apple’s first attempt although I would still have described it as a ‘game-changer‘.
Akira belongs in my list of top ten films of all time, straddling somewhere near the very precipice, it’s certainly my favourite animation ever created.
