Multidisciplinary artist, Jay Shells, has recently been creating legitimate looking signs containing rap quotes that reference specific locations in New York. After compiling over 30 signs, Shells set out installing these signs in the locations mentioned in the quotes. The artist has quoted many well-known rappers such as Jay Z, Mos Def, Kanye West, Gza, [...]
Shops that still sell tape cassettes are very few and far between these days, which means the tape is now more or less an obsolete format. The first mass produced Cassettes were made and sold in Germany in 1964 and companies like Memorex, TDK and BASF continued to manufacture tapes through the seventies and eighties [...]
André Chiote, an architect and illustrator living in Portugal has created a beautiful collection of posters about his architectural inspirations. This was inspired by major references of architecture in the world such as “Zaha Hadid” or “Oscar Niemeyer” to design a series of posters that convey both the beauty of the buildings and Chiote’s eye [...]
Physicians and chemists who formulated drugs began writing of their wonders and publishing them in medical texts and newspapers in the late 1700s. From there, drug advertising took off as both doctors and the public were eager to try anything to alleviate pain and health problems. Over time, the drugs changed and so did the [...]
D is for Don Draper. Old Fashioned-supping alpha and legendary mad man/remover of bras. This fantastic series of posters pays homage to life’s manliest males with a series of clever posters that combine images and typography, in one fell swoop. Click the pic to take a closer look.
We’re a sucker for vintage posters here at Apowl. So when we heard about an auction of vintage London Underground maps, we had to feature it. Christie’s had just finished selling off more than 300 pieces of Underground memorabilia – the sales of which exceeded all expectations by pulling in over a million pounds. Click [...]
Charles Eames famously said “design depends largely on constraints.” Which is precisely the same maxim these fantastic nursing recruitment posters from World War I had in mind. Governments across Europe were under huge strain to keep its citizens volunteering for the war effort, especially nurses, who had to deal with the consequences of total war [...]
Cryptically named designer Hydrogene has come up with some fantastic posters championing six women in science. Radioactivity researcher Marie Curie (who was not only the first woman to win a Nobel Prize but also the first person to win two Nobel Prizes, and in two different sciences at that, chemistry and physics), physicist and astronaut [...]
Games and gaming have steadily been muscling in on the movie market thanks to vast improvements in graphics, gameplay, and of course, budget. Graphic design Ron Guyatt, from Toronto has taken this to the next logical conclusion, with an awesome series of games titles depicted in cinematic posters. All your favourites are there; Tetris, Zelda, [...]
The intersection of propaganda and creative culture has always been a centerpiece of political communication, from the branding of totalitarian regimes to the design legacy of the Works Progress Administration to Soviet animated propaganda. Now, from The Library of Congress—America’s most centralized collective memory—and Quirk Books comes Presidential Campaign Posters: Two Hundred Years of Election [...]
