There are some fantastic updates at 33rpm of work completed over the last few months. I love their work. Absolutely love it. Their print work is top notch. So tasty, like candy for my eyes. Yum. If you have never visited their site before, do yourself a huge favor and do so right now.
I stumbled across this massive archive of Russian Posters this morning ranging in categories from advertising, entertainment, military, agitational (whatever that means), movies, to social. It takes a little doing navigating around the somewhat archaic site but once you get into the meat there is some absolutely fantastic posterwork to behold. There is a lot of it too. You could spend a good chunk of time on this site just surfing. I love finding stuff like this because there is always something in these old poster archives that can inspire something new. The attention to composition and the dramatic portrayal of feeling always invigorates me when I look at this kind of work.
There is a really nice collection of Saul Bass posters here from the 1950’s to the 1980s. I am familiar with most of his older work as that is what they teach you about in design school so it was nice to see some of his later work which is really impressive and still timeless. I always wonder when looking at this older work what techniques they used to create their imagery. I know most of it is photographic but I wonder what was used to generate the graphics in the AT&T poster above. Regardless all of it is timeless and artistic work.
Frank Chimero’s illustration work was a pleasant little discovery that I swear I had seen before but was happy to finally find the home base for. Here is Chimero’s profile from his website:
“Frank Chimero is a designer, illustrator and tinkerer from Missouri, USA. Inspired by the mid-century aesthetic, Frank tries to recapture the sense of optimism, playfulness, heart and charm that’s characteristic of the period. He can usually be found surrounded by many tiny slips of paper with fragments of ideas scrawled on them.”
I really like some of the posters at Widmest. I also really like the name Widmest. It kind of scrambles your brain a little.
I just put yet another new poster in the print section. More more more.
Clever work by Kevin Summers to match the clever name he chose for his website: This Is Make Believe.
I swear I thought I had written something about Joel Evey AKA Mikronized before. I have seen his work several times lately floating around the internets. So I guess an entry on him is overdue. He has some really interesting work in his book that combines a somewhat minimal approach to type with vividly colored random brush strokes with a little hipster pinache frosting to top off the cake. He kind of orchestrates this minimal order with a bit of random chaos giving all the elements the chance to just be what they are and it works. I like it a lot and it is an interesting mix of old an new. Good stuff.
I wasn’t going to do a separate post about this but it is already drawing some interest so I decided I might as well. I created a couple new posters in the print section this week along with the large scale Obama Commemorative Poster last week. This most recent poster was meant to be both meditative and introspective but also about design and typography. I am a big fan of Helvetica and I thought why not combine that with my love for metaphysics? It was kind of a strange idea and hard to explain but fortunately an interesting poster that hopefully has a little more going on than what appears on the surface came out of the exercise. It’s a simple poster in terms of the design but hopefully the complexity comes through when it is given a little extra thought. Anyway, it’s now in the print section and may or may not be printed in the future depending on how much demand it generates.
Just released 6 new posters from my ongoing Vectorfunk Series.
Available now at: MWM Online Store. More info & zooms at MWM News Blog.
Some lovely Illustrator work going on here. Lots of detail and great use of colours all wrapped up in great simple site. Thanks for the email Keith!
There are some real gems in the treasure trove of concert posters created by Punchgut Studio.
Visual Technicians is the art of University College of the Fraser Valley graduate Jeff Boyes. He screen prints all of his posters himself cutting almost all the film by hand and even cutting much of the paper by hand. He has some really exceptional posters for sale at his site featuring some of my favorite people from some of my favorite bands and movies. Don’t get too excited though because they tend to sell out fast.
Alright, so the fateful time has finally drawn near where it is time to actually print some of the posters I have created over the last several months. I have my quotes in for the first 7 posters. All of the posters (minus the Iso Series posters commemorating the isometric paper system) will be printed on A3 size paper. A3 is pretty close to 11×17. All of the posters will be printed on 100lb stock paper, some on white others on natural tone. Since they aren’t really large posters, they will be fairly inexpensive. The cost per poster will probably be in the 15-20 dollar range and I will be able to ship overseas, which makes it a pretty good deal if you are not subjugated to the sinking dollar like we are here in the states.
The question is, and I am having trouble with this myself so I am asking you, which ones do I print first? I will only be doing 7 at first and depending on how well the first series goes, I will be printing more in the fall. Which posters would you buy? Which posters do you like? Let me know with your comments or send me an email. I will be printing the ‘We Not Me’ poster for sure because there has been a really high volume of emails requesting that particular poster. Outside of that, they are all fair game. Please help me decide. I value your opinion as readers and you, after all, are my audience. If you frequent the blog often and enjoy the work I do, now is your chance to help determine what you would like to own for yourself. If you need a memory refresher, the posters are all listed in the PRINT section of the website.
Thank you so much in advance for reading the blog and supporting the site.
There are some lovely things for sale at Good Shape Design, things like posters from Cody Hudson (although his print is sold out). Don’t despair however, there is a lot more there and a lot of it is tasty (like the poster above).
While I spread the local love, I don’t want to leave out Anthony Cozzi who calls himself Snowblinded. It’s an apt name for a Colorado-based designer.
Anthony recently released a series of giclée prints that would really tie a room together. There is some really nice work their as far as posters go. Great work Anthony. Good stuff.
