I’ve been in the Washington DC area for the past 3 1/2 months working with White+Partners. On my way back home to Chicago and thought I’d post some of the work my Creative Director assigned me to. The first poster I created for WolfTrap is ‘Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet St.’ which is [...]
If you are into posters, typography and dig your city, then you will like or atleast appreciate the work of Ork Posters. The medium sized posters are based on unique grids that provide the poster cities with a nice structural feel, while braking the mold with over and undersized typography. It’s printing technique is a [...]
I stumbled onto this typographic poster today, thought I should share it with you guys. Here’s a little info on the poster, it was designed by Cristoph Niemann in 2007 and featured Walt Whitman’s poem “As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days.” The featured line: And our visions, the visions of poets, the most solid announcements of any.
Full poster and poem below.
My favorite design style is swiss and purely concept driven. In other words, visual communication. Although I do appreciate all design and design styles, I just happen to like it best. Designers create art, others communicate messages, while others like to create dramatic images. With so many different design styles out there, it makes me [...]
One of world famous artist and graphic designer Robert Brownjohn’s last pieces of work, Peace? poster designed in 1970, shortly before his death August 1, 1970. Political war poster? aimed at the un-attainability of peace. Born in New Jersey, Brownjohn moved to New York to pursue his graphic design career after attending the Institute of [...]
Esquire is one of my favorite reads, they stay atop men’s fashion, new products and have creative and some debatable material. Much more than now, content for the men’s magazine in the 60′s and 70′s featured controversial topics of the day, involving racism, feminism and the Vietnam War. Boxing during that era launched fighters into [...]
Yesterday I posted some ads that were very reminiscent of Paul Rand’s work for IBM in the 70′s. Today, their current “Smarter Planet” campaign takes a bit here and a bit there from the old ads and also implements these very creative smarter planet icons to represent the markets in which IBM can help your [...]
