Otl Aicher 1972 Olympics

September 30th, 2008

Beautiful posters from Otl Aicher for the 1972 Munich Olympics. See the full catalog of design work.

Strange that the background these were shot on is very similar to the background on this blog!

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Syd Mead Concept Art

September 15th, 2008

Concept art by Syd Mead. Found this after watching Blade Runner last night. He did visual design for Blade Runner, Tron, Aliens, and whole lot of other great films.

More available at Michael Heilemann’s photostream

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Polish Posters of American Films

September 14th, 2008

Steph found these great Polish posters of American films the other day. All the American promotional posters were essentially thrown away in Poland while under Communist rule. Now they’re collectors items and are worth a ton. I’m definitely going to be looking to these for inspiration in future design work.

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Scrapbook #1

July 18th, 2008

I’m going to start posting some of my favorite designers and designs in a series called “Scrapbook”. This post we’ll be looking at the work of two of my friends from Spokane. Karli Fairbanks and Nick Tibbetts.

Karli Fairbanks

Karli and I met in the graphic design program at Spokane Falls CC. She has a really beautiful hand-crafted look to her work. I particularly like her hand lettered type. Always unique and appropriate for the design. Many more pieces on her website and flickr.

Nick Tibbetts

I met Nick through Karli and we instantly hit it off. He and I share a love for flat-colors whether it be for screen printing or poster art. This is one of my absolute favorite illustrations. I don’t think I’ll ever get over it. Nick’s myspace has more of his work. TeeVee is the former name of Nick’s band, now called Oil of Angels .

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