Rejected Posters for “The Shining” by Saul Bass
Stanley Kubrick, as is his style, went through 300 different designs with Saul Bass for the poster for “The Shining”. Here are some of the rejected ideas:
This is the one Kubrick finally settled on:
Which the studio pretty much rejected in favor of this:
Via The Fox is Black


Out of all the rejections, my favorite is the eye maze. It’s particularly appropriate.