Category: Graphic design

Mash Creative Calendar

East London / Essex based design studio Mash Creative designed an A1 calendar poster in a limited edition of 100. Okay … we kicked-off 2010 already almost 2.5 months ago, but it is never too late to put a nice calendar on your wall.

These nice, typographic, minimalist calendar posters are lithographs printed in two colors on 170gsm Cyclus offset with a 60% cyan shiner to achieve an extra rich black. Each poster is hand numbered and signed by the designer.

The calendar is available for purchase at Counter-Objects.

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WE Collective opening posters

Israelian friends Luka Or (multi disciplinary designer), Orian Canetti (interior designer) and Elad Ziv (developer) joined forces to form WE Collective, a new design studio.

To celebrate the start of this new venture, Luka Or designed these colourful minimalist posters.

I love how they do away with the popular notion that minimalism has something to do with the absence of colour, which is completely wrong of course (it’s merely the number of colours).

So: hooray for colour, and welcome WE!

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Homework

Since 2003, Polish design studio Homework, a duo comprised of Joanna Górska and Jerzy Skakun, have created posters for a range of cultural events.

Regardless of whether you can read Polish or not, the designers’ portrayal of the events in question, particularly the Hollywood movie references, gives you good idea about what is being advertised with minimal effort.

Actually, there’s a game in this: visit Homework’s website and see how many events you can guess the relevant posters are for. Unless you understand Polish of course, in which case you’d be cheating.

An exhibition of the studio’s work at London’s Kemistry Gallery begins on March 5th.

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Rebranding the Swedish Armed Forces

A project group of Hyper Island – Robbin Ingvarsson, Fredrik Holmberg, Kristina Herngren, Anke Buchta, Simon Schlüter and Waldemar Wegelin- rebranded the Swedish Armed Forces. They turned the usual function of camouflage around and used one of the basic shapes of geometry, the triangle, to create a new type of camouflage that is all about showing yourself. The goal is to reflect the diversity with the Armed Forces.

The focus for Swedish Army is peacekeeping abroad. In order to fullfill their missions they want to attract new talent – brain rather than muscles.

The challenge of the rebrand was to change the Swedish Armed Forces from a traditional defensive institute into a modern employeer.

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Movie posters by Eduardo Prox

Wow, it’s raining minimalist movie posters! We’re really not going to post them all, some are better than others, but these are great.

Inspired by Albert Exergian’s set, Brazilian graphic designer Eduardo Prox made his own alternatives. One shape, two colours – that’s all, folks.

So far, he’s only made three, but maybe we can expect some more… Eduardo?

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Olly Moss’s 8 Films in Black & Red

Continuing on our minimalist movie poster tip [1] [2], it would be amiss of us not to mention Olly Moss and his Eight Films in Black and Red series.

There’s not much more to say that hasn’t already said, expect that The Great Dictator, Die Hard, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and The Deer Hunter are my favourites. The artwork speaks more than a 1000 words if not minutes. Consequentially, like all film preview trailers, they probably give away too much of what happens.

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Minimalist Movie Posters by Jamie Bolton

After Albert Exergian’s hugely popular minimalist tv show posters, it’s now time for Jamie Bolton’s minimalist movie posters.

UK-based Bolton tried to capture the essence of movies like Back to the Future, Blade Runner, The Shining and Jurassic Park into a single image.

I love how he even ceated extended concepts for the Star Wars series and the Back to the Future sequels. Very smart!

Bolton sells prints of the posters (A3/11.7*16.5 in.) via his webshop. Price per piece: £10.00 (about $16).

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Konst & Teknik

Swedish graphic design company Konst & Teknik can count work for Mono Kultur magazine in its impressive portfolio.

Particularly mentionable here are the book covers for Deleuze och mångfaldens veck and The Rest is Silence, and the extremely useful CopyPasteCharacter—an online tool giving easy access to typographic characters—that negates the need to learn alt codes and other such shortcuts. What a marvellously simple time saver.

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London 2012 concept posters

In his review of 2009, Michael Johnson revisited these London 2012 Olympic Games concept posters by Alan Clarke.

Although the official London 2012 identity, created by Wolff Olins, caused a huge stir on its release (no doubt the desired effect), opinions of the concept are very much polarised; and ever since the unveiling in 2007 there have been notable attempts to offer something more akin to Olt Aicher’s meisterwerk.

Clarke’s idea, linking particular Olympic events with nearby tube stations, was enough to scoop ‘best in show’ at last year’s D&AD new blood exhibition.

What with the impending ubiquity of the official branding, plastered on everything from cereal boxes to Adidas merchandise, these concepts are a tantalising insight into what could have been.

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Katja Gretzinger

Katja Gretzinger is a graphic designer living and working in Berlin, Germany and Zurich, Switzerland. She runs a small graphic design studio, aptly named the Katja Gretzinger Graphic Design Studio.

Her work shows a great eye for typography, composition and the power of colour.

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