Changethethought

“THE HAITI POSTER PROJECT seeks limited edition sets of posters from artists, designers and design firms from around the world. The donated posters will be sold online to raise money for Doctors Without Borders. As designers, we have the collective ability to do what we love, AND to create a difference. THE HAITI POSTER PROJECT has been conceived as a collective effort by the design community to unite and effect change through our work. In order for this project to be successful, we are counting on designer participation. Our goal is to raise at least: $1,000,000 for Doctors Without Borders.”

They are currently seeking submissions. I will be working something up in the following weeks. Lets hope they can reach their goal.

written by Christopher | tags: Charity, Haiti, Posters, The Haiti Poster Project

“Attak is a twoheaded graphic design monster formed in 2004 and is based in lovely ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands, eversince. We work on all sorts of printed matter like posters, flyers, cd-sleeves, logos, corporate identities, magazines and clothing. We value clients who value our artistic ideals and therefore demand a design that requires the utmost of our artistic abilities.”

Amen on the part about the clients. The two heads of the monster are Peter Korsman & Casper Herselman. I had never heard of this agency before but got a little email tip this morning and was super impressed by their body of poster work. There is some great stuff in there, and a lot of it too, if you are in the mood for a little added inspiration today.

written by Christopher | tags: Attak, Graphic Design, Posters, The Netherlands

I stumbled upon Hugo & Marie’s Behance-folio this morning and was treated to some really exceptional posters recently completed for the latest album release of superpower-hippy-jam-band Phish. There are several posters completed by different artists and illustrators under the Hugo & Marie umbrella, all of which are expertly accomplished.

After you finish checking out the posters you can also head over to the Hugo & Marie website to take a look at the portfolio of their newly added illustrator Jules Julien.

written by Christopher | tags: Hugo and Marie, Illustration, Music, Phish, Posters

Rich Gemmell is a freelance illustrator who has been working solo for 2 years. It sounds as though things are going well so far as several of his prints are sold out and he is currently tied up with several projects.

written by Christopher | tags: Art, Illustration, Posters, Prints, Rich Gemmell, Whales

Kitsune Noir has teamed up with Society 6 to bring you the Kitsune Noir Poster Club. The first collection of poster artists include Frank Chimero, Mark Weaver, Jez Burrows, Cody Hoyt and Garrett Vander Leun. The artists were asked to create a poster about their favorite book. The end result is some really attractive Giclée prints on bright white, matte, smooth surface, 100% cotton rag, acid and lignin free archival paper. The posters were printed using Epson K3 archival inks and then custom trimmed with 2″ border. Kitsune Noir author Bobby Solomon is a genuinely nice person and it always comes through in his tone and posts to his blog. He’s a great person to support and he sincerely cares about bringing his readers news and links to emerging art and culture. Society 6 is also out to shed light on upandcoming artists and illustrators and are doing their best to start putting out more projects like this that help promote their work. Kudos to both.

written by Christopher | tags: Art, Illustration, Kitsune Nore Poster Club, Posters, Society 6

If you are looking for some affordable art to give as a gift over the Holidays, you can find all kind of art goodies at Poketo. They have really grown from their original ‘wallet’ days to include, apparel, prints, stationary, homeware, accessories and more. I recently received an email from them and decided to check out their storefront and spend a little time there and was really impressed by the wealth of what they now have to offer. It’s always a pleasure to discover another site or vendor that is trying to make art affordable for everyone.

The print above was created by the ‘Little Friends of Printmaking’ and is just one of several offered in the Poketo print store.

written by Christopher | tags: Art, Poketo, Posters, Prints, Shop

Rétrofuturs (Hulk4598) is the work of graphic designer and illustrator Stéphane Massa-Bidal. She recently completed a Penguin-book-cover-inspired series of posters centered around the theme of web services. They are available to purchase and are seriously worth checking out. They made my ‘design’ day. Sorry that sounds so nerdy but it’s true. The subhead inside joke on the FFFFound cover with the word ‘register’ crossed out is pretty hilarious.

written by Christopher | tags: Graphic Design, Posters, Retrofuturs, Web Services

A real gem of a site for inspiration, Typographicposters.com has relaunched with a minimal and beautifully functional interface that makes navigating the site good fun. You can spend a lot of time on the site and the deeper you dig the more you will be rewarded. There is some spectacular work in their archives.

written by Christopher | tags: Graphic Design, Posters, Typographic Posters, Typography

Letterpress printer David Huyck assembles a group of selected artists once every 3 months to create a series of letterpress posters around a theme. The recent batch that is fresh off the press is about patterns and is titled Repeat/Repeat. Artists and designers Will Bryant, Dustin “UPSO” Hostetler, David Huyck, Mike Perry, Heather Ross, Julia Rothman, and Bob Staake created the recent series of posters. A portion of sales from this series will go to The Nature Conservancy. It’s a great little project and you could do much worse for some nice wall art around the studio or home.

written by Christopher | tags: Cloudy Collection, David Huyck, Letterpress, Posters

Swiss graphic designer Felix Pfäffli has updated with a few new pieces of work. I absolutely love his posters and typography work. Beautiful.

written by Christopher | tags: Feixen, Felix Pfaffli, Graphic Design, Posters, Typography

The portfolio of Minneapolis-based design studio Workerman has some nice examples of smart and simple design. Some of which (including the poster you wish you’d thought of) can be taken home via their online store.

written by Christopher | tags: Graphic Design, Minneapolis, Posters, Typography, Workerman

No Days Off has updated with some nice new poster work that also happens to be up for sale (damn you exchange rate).

written by Christopher | tags: Graphic Days, No Days Off, Posters, Print

Albert Exergian recently completed a series of posters on the theme of popular TV shows. He kept with an extremely minimal approach throughout the entire series. Minimal is the new black (and I think it is here to stay for a while).

written by Christopher | tags: Albert Exergian, Graphic Design, Posters, T.V. Shows

I am a huge fan of Stanley Kubrick. I am also a huge fan of his landmark achievement in film that in my opinion has never been matched, 2001: A Space Odyssey. I am also a fan of Kubrick’s favorite font, Futura. Tonight while watching that movie with my computer in my lap (like any good multitasking American) I thought it might be fun to knock out some posters celebrating 3 of my great loves with 3 different posters. I realized in the process just how remarkable the movie really is that it can be represented through such minimal symbology. Anyway, it was a fun little exercise and you can see the other 2 posters in the print section of the site. I am not sure I could print a run of these without getting in trouble but I will probably print some just to hang around my home.

written by Christopher | tags: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Graphic Design, Posters, Stanley Kubrick

Graphic designer Simon Page produced a series of retro-style posters to commemorate the International Year of Astronomy. The posters were originally created as self promotional work but IYA09 was so impressed by them they decided to use them to help promote the event.

written by Christopher | tags: Graphic Design, International Year of Astronomy, Posters, Retro

Clean, simple and smart design from Emmi Salonen.

written by Christopher | tags: Emmi Salonen, Graphic Design, Posters, Print

I just put 2 new posters in the print section of the site. They were both created by recycling some old graphics. I am trying to get back to my schooling a little bit and simplify my approach to my graphic design work. I am still working on some new illustrations as well. I also just had some really nice business cards printed last week that were letterpressed with holographic foil. The design of the cards is very simple but the the subtle combination of the black rubberized paper and foil really turned out much nicer than I had even expected. I will post some pictures next week. Stay tuned for more. There are a lot of plans in the works yet this year and Changethethought will most likely look much different next year. I also wanted to thank all of the people who have been sending in emails of their work. There has been some really amazing people emailing in lately and that has been really exciting. Thank you.

written by Christopher | tags: Changethethought News, Graphic Design, Posters

‘Shit hot’ is really the only way to describe these posters by Korean graphic designer Seok Jaewon. I guess that’s why they were finalists in the Chicago International Poster Biennial.

written by Christopher | tags: Posters, Seok Jaewon, South Korea, Typography