Author and date in the lower left corner on the title page

Question

I'd like to have the author, the date and other things in the lower left corner of the title page. I thought of aligning them in a tabular, but how do I place it on the title page?

My Page should Look like this:

_____________________________________
|                                   |
|                                   |
|               TITLE               |
|                                   |
|              Subtitle             |
|                                   |
|                                   |
|                                   |
|                                   |
|                                   |
|                                   |
|                                   |
|                                   |
| Author  name                      |
| Date    date                      |
| ....    ....                      |
_____________________________________

Answer 1

You have to create your own layout for the title page, using the environment titlepage. A minimal example:

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\begin{titlepage}
  \null\vfill

  \begin{center}

  {\Huge My Title}
  \vskip 2cm

  {\Large Subtitle or whatever}
  \vskip 1cm

  {\large Institution or whatever}
  \end{center}

\vfill
\vfill

\begin{tabular}{r}
Author Name\\
\small\today\\
\end{tabular}
\hfill
\end{titlepage}

\end{document}

Which produces the rather dull output:

You can see examples of more interesting titlepages in the collections by Vincent Zoonekynd and Peter Wilson