[Gallery] POSTER : my kind of design #inspiration

Typically posters include both textual and graphic elements, although a poster may be either wholly graphical or wholly text. Posters are designed to be both eye-catching and convey information.

Design student Amanda Macedo gathered a bunch of very cool posters created by all sorts of users from the Behance Network.

By Mehmet Gozetlik

By Jonathan Haggard

See the complete gallery of posters here

Get in touch !  Post your comments about it or also you can tell her directly (as directly as internet allows) on her Twitter timeline: @amlight

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Grunge design isn’t dead, is in zombie mode

Sometime between the morning coffee and the “get mail” button stomp with a good article about grunge design, decosntruction and what has been of it in the past decade. The author list examples of agencies and designers keeping the movement alive and responsible for the evolution and possible decay of it.

They say David Carson is the “father of grunge” because he rejected typical type layouts and played with non-mainstream techniques to achieve different results. He surrounded himself in the Southern California surf/skate culture in the late 80s and early 90s where he began to make his mark. This went on to help define the visual aesthetic for surf/skate culture as fans began to identify with it.

The post was written by Jeff Finley , one of the owners of Go Media and admin of the GoMediaZine. You can check the complete article at the site here.

[TIP] SO YOU NEED A TYPEFACE

Have you ever been in that spot of the project where the brainstorming has ended and now you are about to choose the right type for it? Well, stress no more friend! use this fun font-chooser advisor !

Designer Julian Hansen offers a clever and helpful flowchart that helps both typography nerds and neophytes find the right font.

by Julian

It’s fun to follow around the thoughts and threads of Hansen’s flowchart. Start with the big button in the middle, choose your project, and fly around the chart, arriving eventually at a font that’s either inspired or the perfect choice for your tired tastes, depending on your answers. Those with an eye for kerning and the like may just get a laugh or two from the picks, but for those of us who have no idea what we’re seeing in lettering most of the time, there’s some real value in being asked “How do the (words) Semi-Sans, Semi-Serif sound?” The English translation’s a bit stilted at times, but you’ll get the joke, or advice, in most cases.

See more by Julian on his website: http://julianhansen.com/

[DZGN] 21st International Poster Biennale {Warsaw}

Typically posters include both textual and graphic elements, although a poster may be either wholly graphical or wholly textual. Posters are designed to be both eye-catching and convey information, used for many purposes, and they are a frequent tool of advertisers (particularly of events, musicians and films), propagandists, protestors and other groups trying to communicate a message. Posters are also used for reproductions of artwork, particularly famous works, and are generally low-cost compared to original artwork. Another type of poster are educational posters, which may be about a particular subject for educational purposes.

This is WHY it  is one of my favorite exercises in graphic design and i’m looking forward to participate in the next one!

From the 2008, the 21th Poster Biennale  results, courtesy of a jury consisting of :

Xavier Bermúdez (Mexico)
Tomasz Bogusławski (Poland)
Jianping He (Germany)
Anette Lenz (France)
Uwe Loesch (Germany)
Marcin Władyka (Poland)

and chaired by Uwe Loesch, are as follows:

IN GROUP OF IDEOLOGICAL POSTERS (A):

THE GOLD MEDAL:

poster no: 142, author: Mark Gowing, Australia
title: Oil Kills Peace