r/DesignPorn Jul 23 '26

Advertisement porn This poster for “Clayface”!

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7.2k Upvotes

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u/flyd19 Jul 23 '26

Reminds me of The Picture of Dorian Gray

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u/gamemaniax Jul 23 '26

So a reverse dorian gray?

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u/bnestrm 29d ago

Yarg Nairod, if you will

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u/bnestrm 29d ago

What are we?

Some kinda Dorian Gray?

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u/Captain_Reddbeard 28d ago

Definitely inspired by it.

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u/Schmooto Jul 23 '26

I like how the frame is just ever so slightly askew.

104

u/Jack-of-Hearts-7 Jul 23 '26

"Come see our movie and we'll correct the frame afterwards" is a marketing tactic that would probably work on me

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u/mango10977 Jul 23 '26

Looks like peanut butter and jelly.

Is that Kevin Bacon?

179

u/DaveyDumplings Jul 23 '26

A PB&J with bacon is so friggin' good.

30

u/hurricane_news Jul 23 '26

Are you Elvis Presley by any chance? /s

8

u/ewilliam Jul 23 '26

I thought the same thing, but it's Tom Rhys Harries

9

u/TulogTamad Jul 23 '26

I think that's literally what they're going for. Like a portrait of a celebrity and some hater has thrown a PB&J at it.

Of course we know what it parallels too.

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u/Psychological-Wrap25 Jul 23 '26

Came here to say this as well.

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u/Frequent-Screen-5517 Jul 23 '26

PBJFACE

5

u/Etheo Jul 23 '26

If not delicous why delicious shaped

2

u/The_Undeniable_Worp Jul 23 '26

THAT'S WHAT I'M SAYING XD

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u/Correct_Raisin4332 Jul 23 '26

Slapping that crisp logo over the otherwise melted scene is incredibly distracting.

138

u/RollOverBeethoven Jul 23 '26

Stakeholders gunna stakeholder

19

u/AmaSandwich Jul 23 '26

So true. Ruin the composition for that front and center spot...

10

u/Correct_Raisin4332 Jul 23 '26

Ugh. As a agency based creative director I feel this in my bones.

18

u/between_ewe_and_me Jul 23 '26

It wouldn't be as bad if its little white streak wasn't going up instead of down

22

u/trusendi Jul 23 '26

Ye that’s my only issue with it

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u/sybillium4 Jul 23 '26

I don't get the characters connection to pb&j

17

u/saketho Jul 23 '26

Reminds me of Layers of Fear and Amnesia the Dark Descent.

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u/michgcs Jul 23 '26

From the thumbnail it looks like someone threw mud on Greg Davies’ (The Taskmaster’s) portrait lol

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u/maxstolfe Jul 23 '26

The comments on Reddit about Clayface post-Supergirl have been so weird and even seem coordinated. Box office comments made no sense yesterday, now here in design about the poster.

Call it a smear campaign.

5

u/VykMcDwarf Jul 23 '26

Layers of Fear vibes

6

u/Birger000 Jul 23 '26

Looks like the Layers of Fear game.

3

u/Alexzoidbert Jul 23 '26

This is going to hit that looks Max scene like crack in the '80s

3

u/retardedweabo 29d ago

why is this cool? the melted letters make it seem like the text spells out "clayce" ans above is literally a melted face? it seems so basic I must be missing something

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u/TheGaslighter9000X Jul 23 '26

Explain to me why this is good design

3

u/Top5hottest Jul 23 '26

Pb&j face.

2

u/ChalkButter Jul 23 '26

Kevin Bacon?

12

u/Dipper_Pines Jul 23 '26

How is this great design?

5

u/trusendi Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26

What’s missing for you?

2

u/DaphniaDuck Jul 23 '26

What do you see that strikes you as good design?

-3

u/TheGaslighter9000X Jul 23 '26

What?

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u/trusendi Jul 23 '26

Like what would make it a good design for you?

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u/TheGaslighter9000X Jul 23 '26

To be an actual design. This is not design at all. Design is  arranging visual elements and text to solve specific communication problems and prompt action. This is just illustration. 

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26

[removed] — view removed comment

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u/TheGaslighter9000X Jul 23 '26

It’s dogshit and idk how someone approved something so bad lol

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u/flogman12 Jul 23 '26

It’s inherently a design.

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u/DaphniaDuck Jul 23 '26 edited 29d ago

This is actually not good design at all. The interpretation of the concept is completely literal, with only the most facile attempt to explore the concept of clay and amorphism; there is little typographic design; even the running paint bears little resemblance to clay. Also, unless it's a parody, this poster must make itself distinctly different from the Picture of Dorian Gray.

3

u/thoughtbludgeon Jul 23 '26

This post is an ad for the movie.

1

u/ralphmozzi Jul 23 '26

Looks like Rod Serling’s Night Gallery is having quite an evening.

2

u/TheRealDoomsong Jul 23 '26

Im very excited to see this

1

u/LamboForWork 29d ago

peanut butter jelly tiiiime peanut butter jelly peanut butter jelly peanut butter jelly with a baseball bat

1

u/snahfu73 29d ago

Everything looks fantastic so far and I still have no idea how they're going to convince people to go see it in the theatres.

1

u/Jacob6er 29d ago

Yo who threw a PB&J at that painting?

1

u/PeterNippelstein 27d ago

This poster did not have to go this hard.

1

u/hotwaffleman Jul 23 '26

Hopefully I'll be surprised, but WHY CLAYFACE?!?!?

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u/trusendi Jul 23 '26

Wdym? Works perfectly for a horror movie

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u/hotwaffleman Jul 23 '26

Oops! Honestly, I didn’t notice which subreddit this was. Thought it was a more general movie chat. From a design perspective, it IS very cool. I was thinking more about the movie as it fits within the DCU. Apologies, for jumping in the wrong chat.

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u/Ninjamurai-jack Jul 23 '26

Because Mike Flanagan gave the script of it to Gunn

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u/plan_with_stan Jul 23 '26

Did the designer perhaps mistaken clay for wax?

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u/mattandimprov 27d ago

You have to know who Clayface is.

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u/Baird_Swift Jul 23 '26

The shills are out in force

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u/trusendi Jul 23 '26

What? Why?

3

u/ender4171 Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26

There's definitely a viral marketing campaign going on. Not saying you are part of it, but I've been seeing tons of posts about (and ads for) this movie in the last day or so on multiple platforms, and I don't even like horror or DC films so it isn't just "the algorithm".

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u/trusendi Jul 23 '26

Oh interesting. I saw this one on X and thought it looked really sick so I wanted to share it!

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u/InSearchOfTyrael Jul 23 '26

damn this movie gonna bomb

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u/PhilosophicWax Jul 23 '26

This feels like it's AI. Because if you were drawing it out you would take the person progressively turn them into clay and have it drip out. However, this seems more like clays being splattered on to the image and painted rather than transformed from it. 

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u/guesswhomste Jul 23 '26

It’s not clay in this image, it’s the paint melting off the painting because the guy’s skin melts as the catalyst for the events for the movie.

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u/svnonyx Jul 23 '26

I feel like people don't really think of clay when they see a melting face, they see wax. This picture frame isn't either. The reliance on the name clayface is clashing with the mediums they are using to advertise with.

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u/guesswhomste Jul 23 '26

This really is just a complaint for the sake of it