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[sharpshooter]

I'd like to see a collage style poster for the third design. I think the last one of these was from Casino Royale, with an image of Bond surrounded by various photos (the DBS in front of the casino, Bond and Vesper in the ocean and a boat at the top). 

[antovolk]

Believe me, if the Octopus design had been printed for cinemas, I would have known and bought.  It was only a digitised image that only ever saw print due to the good people in Thailand etc.
 
As for Skyfall, definitely a three-poster campaign in the UK.  Bear in mid that, from a UK point of view, historically, British posters are quads,  These being the 30x40 inch landscape design posters.
 
Certainly, the recent form has been to use the 1 sheets as well, but I feel this pattern is more because the world is becoming more homogenised, or at least, geared towards the US film marketing.  And so consequently, the UK is using portrait style 1 Sheets as much as it is using quads. 
 
I think in time, the quads will be phased out.  But not for this or the last Bond film.
 
The other thing to bear in mind is that 1 Sheets in English language form are, I feel, no longer pertaining to one country or another.  These are classified as International 1 Sheets.  The language may be English, but the advertised dates encompass all the variations for when the film may be released in the International market.

In that case I do stand corrected - the UK used that sliding art as a sort of, given when it was released, interim poster before the actual UK final poster landed - while the US used that sliding art as the final poster. And awesome work having keeping track of all these variants!

There will always be UK quad versions of these 1 sheet designs - one problem is when it comes to the US and international markets using different designs for posters/trailers etc (I'm sure you remember how there were two versions of the Skyfall trailer). Thankfully this campaign is more homogenised - using the same assets and designs and variants worldwide, just adapting to each with dates and of course quads for the UK.

Going back to the original point of this discussion, like I said, I think the remaining posters we're getting are the final poster (one design for all markets, un like Skyfall), the character posters, and any special IMAX collectible poster if they decide to do one.
 

I'd like to see a collage style poster for the third design. I think the last one of these was from Casino Royale, with an image of Bond surrounded by various photos (the DBS in front of the casino, Bond and Vesper in the ocean and a boat at the top).

Unfortunately, I don't think that will be the case, not in today's poster design climate. Collage-style posters are more associated with late 90s/early 2000s movies now and are more used for "b-movies" as opposed to the top tier blockbusters. I'd say it will be probably a singular scene/design, with Bond and possibly Madeleine front and center. Hopefully they'll incorporate the SPECTRE octopus (whether the gunshot design that's being used as the film's secondary logo or the actual insignia from the film) and have Waltz somewhere, and that the setting they pick is striking...

Probably the best shot at a creative, maybe even more old-school, being more hand-drawn-esque, poster will come from the IMAX poster. They recently are being very brave in terms of designs. Here are a couple of recent favourites that IMAX had done special posters for: