Famed Italian designer Renato Casaro has died aged 89, leaving behind a career of uniquely hand-crafted posters for a variety of films. His work often focused on amplifying the heroic image of stars such as Schwarzenegger and Stallone (‘I have always had a weakness for heroes,’ he once said) but his work also covered films including Brian de Palma’s Blow Out, Rob Reiner’s Misery and Sergio Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars. As studios opted for more digital tools, he stopped designing posters in 1998 and later returned to make designs for Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. He told the Guardian the call from Tarantino was ‘a wonderful surprise’
