Posts Tagged ‘posters’

A Typographic Experiment – Favorite Sans Serif Typefaces

Friday, July 29th, 2011

A Grotesk Love Affair is a typographic experiment created by Ryan Atkinson and Stephan de Lange, where they asked people what their favorite font was, and created typographic posters using the data collected.

“Good designers like fonts. Great designers find them physically arousing.With this thought in mind, we set out to dramatize designers everlasting love affair with Grotesk fonts, and democratically determine which one got designers’ juices flowing the most. This information was then translated into statistical data, and used as the basis for the design, where we used typographical grids to layout all the information.”

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Japan Tsunami and Earthquake Relief Posters and Flyers

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011

This is a collection of poster and flyer designs that promote well wishes and relief efforts for Japan. Some utilize type in creative ways, others are geared less toward typography and are just clean and simple designs.

The Sun Will Rise Again.
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’20s and ’30s Japanese Graphic Design

Friday, February 18th, 2011

Here are some cool designs featured on posters, magazine covers and advertisements from the ’20s and ’30s that were influenced by Western art. All fifty of them can be seen at pink tentacle.


Poster ad for Nikke Clothing by Gihachiro Okayama, 1931

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Gig Posters

Tuesday, January 18th, 2011