On May 27 San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge celebrates its 75th anniversary. Working with the Golden Gate National Parks Conservatory, agency Goodby Silverstein & Partners has created a suitably grand poster campaign… The photographs of the bridge that provide the source material for the posters were taken by GSP’s own Rich Silverstein and agency photographer [...]
From Walt Disney’s first ever production (and still one of the most popular) ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs‘ back in 1937, to classics such as ‘Snoopy, Come Home!‘ in the early 1970′s, and of course the modern day whoppers such as ‘How To Train Your Dragon‘ released earlier this year. There’s something here for [...]
Since we’re in the midst of the 65th Festival de Cannes whose official poster features the legendary Marilyn Monroe, one of our favourite blogs ifitshipitshere thought it’d be nice to take a look at every single poster to date since the film festival’s inception in 1946. See how the design and typography trends of the [...]
Gil Elvgren was one of the best pin-up artists in the history of American Illustration. From the mid 1930′s through 1972, Elvgren produced over five hundred paintings of beautiful girls and women. Almost all of these works are oil on canvas, and fully developed finished works of art. Elvgren continually surpassed himself, always improving in [...]
“Everything is a remix,” says the title of the famous short documentaries by Kirby Ferguson, is a discussion about how newly created work is strongly influenced by existing work. You don’t have to look far to see it – just look at movie posters. French blogger Christophe Courtois put together several telling montages of similar [...]
Created by Michael Murdock of Sabor Design Studios, these well worn designs appear to be ads from a lost alternate universe. Each features the diagram of some imaginative technology, along with detailed notes on their pertinent features. Picture radio’s or hover spheres anyone? I could have geeked out on these for hours as a kid, [...]
Designer Zoran Lucic has been creating amazing posters of some of football’s greatest icons over on his Behance page. Featuring the likes of Socrates, Maldini, and more modern stars such as Ibrahimovic, he styles the players in such a beautiful way, you’d want them on your wall. Even if you weren’t a fan of the [...]
The Human Body: What It Is And How It Works is a stunning vintage anatomy book, depicting and explaining in more than 200 vibrant mid-century illustrations the inner workings of the body. Originally published in 1959, this colourful gem was inspired by German artist and researcher Fritz Kahn, who in his 1926 classic Man as [...]
There are a lot of things to keep track of in the galaxy. Hopefully these infographics put together over on Oskoui will help keep you up to date on the information that you need to know to get by in the galaxy without a hitch. Click the pic to see more.
Philosophy isn’t a lot of people’s strongest mental attribute, and London based graphic designer Genis Carreras — aka GEX — knows that people forget their —ism’s, so he came up with a clever and minimally designed way to help you remember each philosophy. His Philographics minimalist poster series, are a playful set of posters that [...]
