Federico Mancosu’s poster for Anton Corbijn’s Depeche Mode video Enjoy the Silence

Some of the more interesting feature films are made by directors who got their start in music videos (Anton Corbijn’s new feature film The American opens today and Mark Romanek’s Never Let Me Go follows a couple weeks later). Italian graphic designer Federico Mancosu was inspired to create movie posters for classic music videos by some of these same directors. His site also includes posters for classic videos by Spike Jonze, Jonathan Glazer and John Landis (ten posters for ten music videos by ten directors).

“After creating numerous minimalist posters dedicated to some famous Italian cult movies, I thought of making a series devoted to music videos,” says Mancosu. “The real golden age of video clips was the `90’s; directors like Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze and Chris Cunningham have made some real cinematic masterpieces.”