Mash Creative 2011 Limited Edition Calendar

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Mash Creative have released a 2011 version of their beautiful limited edition ‘minutes’ calendar, a successor to last years successful 2010 ‘seconds’ calendar. This one has been printed with glow in the dark ink so you can enjoy it at any time of day.

When I posted about last years version, it stirred up a small debate about the design and function of the calendar, so here’s an excerpt from Mash on their thought process:

The human race seems to be obsessed with time, it’s the one thing we never seem to have enough of. The year ‘Twenty Eleven’ (2011) is made up of five hundred and twenty five thousand, six hundred minutes, that’s an average of around fourty three thousand, eight hundred minutes a month. Our calendar has been designed to be a typographic representation of the year, each month has been broken down into minutes which have been listed below each month name. The jumbled title text at the top of the poster continues the theme from last years calendar and has been influenced by old analogue flip clocks. The calendar has been printed with glow in the dark ink allowing the design to take on a completely different look at night. Using the idea of sidereal time (star time) the highlighted months glow like a constellation of stars.

Expertly screen printed by Bob Eight Pop – each poster has been printed in white and glow in the dark ink and printed onto high quality 160gsm Raven Black Kaskad. Each poster is hand numbered and signed by the designer.

You can grab one of these beauties from Counter Objects.

Network Osaka – Stanford University Poster

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I’ve been a fan of Network Osaka’s work for a while now, and this A1 silk screen poster for Stanford University floored me when I saw it. I love the choice of colors and the overprint look, as well as the use of photography to really bring the entire piece together. This design feels fresh but also seems like it could be a poster right out of the 60s. It must be a beauty in person.

Definitely check out Network Osaka’s full portfolio. A lot of excellent design in there.

Giulio Cittato

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Giulio Cittato (1936-1986) was an Italian graphic designer and teacher who worked for Unimark International during the mid 60s and was also a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI). Not much of his work is available for viewing on the web or in books, but the works I’ve seen are truly inspiring and unique. AGI and AIGA have small galleries of Cittato’s work and there’s this wonderful poster design in the book Basic Typography.

There isn’t much info about Cittato other than this short bio on the AGI site:

After he graduated from the Venice University in 1963, Cittato spent two years working as a designer with La Rinascente in Milan. He moved to the USA in 1965, where he worked for Unimark International, the Center for Advanced Research in Design and the Container Corporation of America. In 1971, Cittato returned to Italy and from 1971-74 he taught visual design at the Corso Superiore di Disegno Industriale and the International University of Art in Venice. He was involved in a wide range of design projects, corporate programmes and signage, which he taught at the University of Urbino from 1978-80.

A one-man exhibition was held at the Smithsonian Institute in 1969. Clear colourful compositions were typical of his work. More exhibitions were held in Milan, Montreal and Venice. Samples of his work can be found in the NY MoMA, as well as in museums in Italy and other countries.

Emil Ruder Posters

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Time and time again, Emil Ruder’s work simply amazing me. I find myself always going back to it for inspiration for my own designs. What’s truly inspiring about his work is that the designs are so simple in terms of aesthetic, but also complex and refined. A novice designer, or even a non-creative person, would look at his work and think that it’s easy to duplicate. Oh how wrong they would be.

Here are some of his excellent poster designs for you to lust after.