Isn’t it amazing how some movies can be a bit hit in the theaters, then once they’ve been on people’s home movie shelves for a few years they peter out- while some movies are crap in the theater, then get watched forevermore? This is the cult classic, of course, and someone’s got their fingers right in the bloody pulse of this situation as it pertains to design, that being Toronto based designer Ibraheem Youssef. He’s rolling right beside these internet-famous designers who turn their eyeballs toward self-promotional work in the form of cult classic illustration. Here he’s done several that I might have passed over except for one thing…

INCEPTION. Yes, he’s got a couple of the classics here with Lebowski and Scarface, but then he tells us that when he went, just a few days ago, to this new film Inception, that he couldn’t resist! This is newness. This is in the vein of Tyler Stout, a dude who, once the theaters got wind of him making such fantastic illustrations for older films, began hiring him to create posters for limited releases of newer ones.

In so many words and a few dollars and pennies, you can purchase cult-classic status now, if only for a little while. Of course the true cult classic attains its status only through time and circumstance. But the situation is there! And it’s here, too, in some really super neat illustrative posters. Peek em out.

And take note — the mazes in the Inception poster work!

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies posters category.