Year of Astronomy poster design
Simon Page is a self-taught graphic designer from the UK with an emphasis on typographic art, illustration and geometric design. Here’s a selection along with Simon’s commentary.
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FAB Creative Excellence Awards
There are just two days left to enter 2009’s FAB Awards (Food and Beverage Creative Excellence Awards). Now in its 11th year, the FAB Awards has taken entries from clients and agencies in over 60 countries around the world. Here are some of my favourites from 2008.
Helvetica NOW poster design contest
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Helvetica™ typeface, Linotype™ invited designers worldwide to take part in the Helvetica NOW poster design contest.
Your favourite World Cup poster design?
A public voting initiative is taking place, for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Do you think it’s a good idea to open the design process up to the public? Which of the three poster designs would you choose for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa?
Russian poster design inspiration
With over 2,000 Russian poster designs, this website has plenty to get you inspired.
Flyer designs for the music industry
Included here are some of the flyers I’ve designed for clients in the music industry. Any thoughts, positive or negative are very welcome.
Music band poster design inspiration
GigPosters.com is a site devoted to showcasing poster designs for the music industry. There’s a lot of underwhelming design in there (to be expected with the vast amount of posters on the site), but if you take a little time to browse you can find some gems.
Poster design inspiration from Switzerland
If you have an interest in posters I recommend taking a tour of this Swiss poster design collection. The one above was designed by Ralph Schraivogel, Zürich, in 1994.
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Poster design from Lippa Pearce
One of the sharpest poster design executions I’ve seen. It’s from Lippa Pearce who are now Pentagram partners. Excellent typography mixed with engaging photography.
Screamfest poster designs
Here are a couple of posters designed to advertise Screamfest – Los Angeles’ independent horror film festival.
Well pieced together, using an original idea. It’s a shame the organisers couldn’t create a website that also gets the thumbs up. View the Screamfest website here.