I guess there is a theme today, this is a great guide for when you ask that question “Should I post this?” I love this GIVING CREDIT / STORM CLOUD poster created by erin loechner and pia bijkerk (with handmade fonts from yvette — view larger format here ] BUY yourself a print here. – found when I was compulsively reading all the cool stuff on link with love. What are your rules about sharing stuff on the internet? I will be setting myself a policy and sticking to it, I love the sharing that bloggers do, but we have to stick up for each other too.
What more is there to say. It’s what I aim to do everyday working with clients and their businesses. Make clever simple, and simple clever. Beautiful – from Raphael Mahon
I would love it if my Vet’s office had one of these, I wonder how many people would want to check their dog’s eyesight. Simple, funny, and yes, (because of those things) clever. (They also do charts for Cats). From Local Paper Studio.
I’m such a big city girl and this made me smile. Day and Night in New York – An upbeat print by day, and then when the lights go out you see a city full of crime, sex, guns and zombies (what more could you want). Sweet Dreams. From The Best Part, via design milk.
The new prints from the guys over at Keep Calm Gallery just arrived in my inbox and I just had to share this one with you. Think Big (and when you’ve done that Think Bigger)
Sometimes it takes a lot of Um’s to get to the AH – and that’s my favorite sound. Poster from W+K Studio. Love it. This is a great reminder that we all need to keep working towards the clever idea.
New posters from the Keep Calm Gallery (yes the people who originally bought you the Keep Calm print) - I love this - Woody Guthrie’s New Years Rulin’s from The Wooden Truth.
“In 1941 the great American singer-songwriter and folk musician Woody Guthrie wrote 33 new years ‘rulins’, resolutions that he made for the year ahead (1942). These words inspired Andrew Chapman at The Wooden Truth to put a selection together in a way that he felt worked for him, creating a design that has rhythm both poetically and typographically.In Andrew’s own words “Woody Guthrie’s 33 New Years Resolutions give us a view of an optimistic, serious, sensitive, funny man. Just dealing with the nine I chose to print here presented a big challenge but nearly 70 years on can’t we all feel the resonance of the last one?”
This two colour letterpressed poster has been printed on very delicate newsprint to achieve a look and feel of being authentically 1942. As Andrew says, “they have the feel of something you’d discover pinned to the back of a long forgotten shed door.”
What would your nine resolutions for this year be? I think I might make a poster…
Calling all fellow letterpress geeks. This is beautiful. If I wasn’t so busy today I would spend all day playing with it. (via swissmiss)
“LetterMpress is available on the Mac Store and as an iPad App. (The iPad is 50% off for the month of december) Besides the use of a mouse and keyboard, the most significant feature of the Mac version is the high resolution that can be output, depending on your graphics card. Prints can be created as high as 8192 pixels in the longest dimension—that’s over 26” at 300 DPI”.
I just came across these movie posters from Viktor Hertz and they made me smile. I like simple. I like clever. These are both.
Check out his site and his pictogram obsession (it’s pretty cool)
*UPDATE – I showed the Coffee & Cigarettes poster to my husband when he came home from work, he looked at it for a minute and then (loudly) said AHHH (he had just seen the coffee cup). He hadn’t seen the title of the post. This made me happy.
When you see a clever idea, ask yourself "how does this apply to what I'm doing?" You will be amazed what you can learn from seemingly unrelated ideas.
Aileen is a graphic designer turned cynical motivational speaker who is obsessed with clever ideas and the creative process. She is a published author, columnist, award-winning speaker and English. She helps businesses create, develop and launch ideas to help marketing, culture, customer service and profits.
I guess there is a theme today, this is a great guide for when you ask that question “Should I post this?” I love this GIVING CREDIT / STORM CLOUD poster created by erin loechner and pia bijkerk (with handmade fonts from yvette — view larger format here ] BUY yourself a print here. – found when I was compulsively reading all the cool stuff on link with love. What are your rules about sharing stuff on the internet? I will be setting myself a policy and sticking to it, I love the sharing that bloggers do, but we have to stick up for each other too.
