neato times twenty: Jaime Zuverza

Jamie Zuverza's work is effortlessly cool, in that fuck-it, indulge your deepest, weirdest urges kind of way. His posters reference (but never blindly emulate) Grindhouse, Creepshow, that sweet Buzzcocks art, Ukiyo-e, and more. It's great to see someone being so reckless, playful, and subversive with their poster design. There are a ton of great posters to peep on Jamie's site, and you can read an interview here (via it's nice that).

Here's to a weirder, more prolific 2014.

For those affected by the typhoon

Let's help some brothers and sisters out!

neato times twenty

In love with these posters designed (and screen printed!) by Ronny Hunger aka Comet Substance.

There's just something satisfying about the color and texture found in ephemera. And, out of left field, there are slick, bold forms made with more modern technology. These juxtapositions make for a delightful, disorienting experience. Reminds me tangentially somehow of the work of Bart de Baets.

via It's Nice That.  Check the Comet Substance site and see more goodness here.

The City I Live In

I am so honored to be a participant in Affiche #1, the poster show currently up at the mOb + Storefront space.

If you have a chance to mosey on down there, you'll find yourself surrounded by massive, colorful, strange, quiet, loud, funny, and serious posters. All of them deal in some way with the theme of "the city I live in."




















































Here's a little blurb:

An exhibition of very large posters at mOb + Storefront is opening March 1 from 5 to 9 pm. Designers were asked to create a visual interpretation of the city they live in ranging from New York, Gothenburg, past, present, future, dark, green, Richmond, etc. Styles are diverse, the walls are bright and demonstrate the need to respect the poster as a critical component of our city streets.

Let's keep the poster alive! Let's get 'em out in the streets!

Here is a closer look at my contribution:

lars moereels

some funky, irreverent, fearless work by a designer named lars moereels

via it's nice that

ULTRA COOL BEANS

Bart de Baets is one cool fellow.  I first came across his work in Elephant Magazine and was really struck by his playfulness and irreverence. I like how he makes meaning by using (or misusing) existing imagery.

He recently did a project with Sandra Kassenaar, where they both became resident artists in Egypt in the midst of the political unrest and revolution of 2011. As a reaction to the environment that surrounded them, they created Success and Uncertainty. From their website:

Being stunned by the political tidal wave flooding the country, the resignation of Hosni Mubarak and the phenomenon of having a curfew — something they had only heard of in World War II stories — the designers found themselves gazing from the sidelines, not knowing how exactly to react to all of this. They asked themselves ‘Would it be arrogant to confront the Egyptians with our assumptions? And ‘isn’t it ignorant to pretend to have a nose bleed?’

On Wednesday June 1st 2011 a lightbox will hang outside the Townhouse Gallery announcing the start of the project and showcasing the first of twenty-one posters. During the month of June 2011, each day a new poster will be presented, generating a growing exhibition. The daily changing posters will be seen both in- and outside of the gallery and will, just as newspapers do, show bold statements and gruesome facts, next to light-hearted messages, such as casual observations and rumours that caught Sandra and Bart’s attention during their residency. The content provided by both therefore creates a clash of information that will influence the way one reads a poster. It was this constant dialogue between the designers that lead to Success and Uncertainty.

Their unclear position and the new situation the country found itself in proved to be an inspiring discovery, which eventually lead to the project Success and Uncertainty. The title of this work is an existing headline taken from the 12th of February 2011 front page of The Evansville Courier & Press, a local Indiana newspaper reporting Mubarak’s resignation as the president of Egypt.

Here are a couple of my favorite posters from the project:

to visit Bart de Baets' website, click here

cool beans

came across this cool work from Adam R. Garcia, who runs a studio called The Pressure. Some of the work is really experimental and stylistic, but in most cases sensitive to the needs of the problem. I have strong achings for this Arcade Fire poster:

It can be colapsed and constructed into a nifty shadow box, allowing you to view a young girl against several different backdrops

to look at more of Adam's work click here.

cool beans

This beautiful poster was done by Anton Pearson. It is to promote a lecture by Åbäke, a graphic design firm that makes really strange and interesting work. That being said, I like how strange and aesthetically challenging the poster is. It pushes the envelope in form but at the same time it remains restrained in color choice. I'm a sucker for pieces that use one or two colors in smart and economical ways. Check Anton Pearson's site out, there's some awesome stuff on there!

via Geotypografika, a blog that is run by Erik Brandt, who is a vcu alumni and an amazing designer.

cooool beans

h&fj posted a really interesting collection of WPA posters. I love the strange type arangements, the decoration, the colors...

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nice subject choice mr. fairey!

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designed by wes winship

stumble, major cool beans

dear everyone, let me design poster as cool as these ones for you

form aesthetic apparatus

pikreeeoooooow

that was the sound of my mind being blown by this awesome, super clean poster by tom balchin

via swissmiss

major cool beansage

feixen is the online portfolio of designer felix pfaffli

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this poster reads, "let's extensively raise goats in all families." in other words, this is awesome.

for more (and slightly less friendly) korean propaganda posters, click here.

classic, epic

more sweet movie posters here

woooah

check out Loose Limbs

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WOAH.

maaaajor cool beansage alert: league is a graphic design firm in switzerland

via ISO50

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tadanori yokoo, via ffffound

classics.

josef muller-brockmann