Here is a mouth-wather collection of over 300 Swiss posters curated by Carnegie Mellon University that spans almost 4 decades.
Category: Design
Helvetica 2008 Calendar
Lovely calendar designed by Greig Anderson featuring the one and only Helvetica. Definitely check out the rest of his exceptional work.
Thirteen Reasons To Fall In Love
Go through Bristol based design studio Thirteen’s portfolio and you’ll fine plenty of reasons to fall in love with their work.
Nice Design Makes Me Hungry
Gorgeous packaging design by Henry Luong. Some people commented on the Dieline site that they don’t like the broken text. Personally I love it and I think it makes the design more interesting.
Blanka Flickr
Blanka has created a Flickr page displaying vintage posters and prints by Wim Crouwel, Josef Müller-Brockmann, Otl Aicher and many other great designers of the past. Absolutely amazing.
Divine Proportion
I’m a big advocate of using divine proportions and the rule of thirds in any type of design work. I think any well constructed grid system should start from one of these proportions. They make a design more balanced, structured, compelling and far more communicative.
Here’s a great article on Smashing Magazine on both subjects.