Really digging’ these posters designed by David Bennet for Emil Olsson’s site launch. And it’s not because I’m mentioned in the text. For reelz.
Tag: poster
Musikinstrumente
To the left is the paste up of a 1962 poster titled “Musikinstrumente”, by Richard Paul Lohse. Below is the final poster design. It’s incredible what designers had to do to layout a design back in those days when computers weren’t standard. Definitely a certain level of craft was involved that is probably now lost.
Limited Edition Posters Inspired by Wim Crouwel
It’s seems like it’s Wim Crouwel month, and deservedly so.
Unit Editions and the Design Museum have asked a group of highly regarded graphic designers to design a poster for the “Wim Crouwel, A Graphic Odyssey” exhibit at the Design Museum. The designers were to create a design based on the dimensions and grid of the Stedelijk Museum posters created by Crouwel. My personal favorite is the one designed Experimental Jetset that is pictured here.
The designers:
Michael C Place/Build
Experimental Jetset
MuirMcNeil
Philippe Apeloig
David Pidgeon
Cartlidge Levene
Tony Brook/Spin
Each poster is 635 x 950mm and screen-printed on Pristine white Colorplan. You can grab a copy at the Design Museum and Unit Editions.
Limited Edition Memories Book
About a year ago, I was asked by Designers Against Human Rights Abuse (DAHRA) to participate in a project called Memories, which is raising money for Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centres. Cancer has deeply affected my life, taking both of my parents at a young age, so it was a real honor for me to be a part of this.
The ultimate outcome of the project is a book that tells ten stories of individuals who have survived cancer, as well as those of people who have lost loved ones to this deadly disease. Artists, illustrators and designers were invited to create their own visual response to the “memories”, and I was fortunate enough to have been included in this wonderful project. Proceeds from the book will be donated to Maggie’s.
The piece I did can be seen in the last image to the left. Here’s a larger version of it. I’m going to save the details of the story for the book, but basically the story I was assigned to is about a women named Kay, and the time she spent with her mother during her last days. Her mother was a librarian and loved books, so I created an abstract visual of a stack of books. The copy in the piece is something Kay’s mother would always say to her. It was a really touching moment and I felt that this would best represent the story of these two wonderful people. I was told that Kay loves the piece, which makes it all worth it for me.
The standard book will be released this summer, but a beautiful limited edition version has been created. It will be 304 pages with a blind deboss on brown faux leather cover, pvc inner cover and it’s all printed on Strathmore Pastelle Bright White and Pastelle Natural White paper stocks.
It was a joy to work on this project and I feel lucky to have been included.
Jacques Charette
Happy new year! I hope everyone had a great holiday season. It’s hard to believe that another year has passed.
To kick off the new year, here’s a lovely exhibit poster by designer Jacques Charette, who also did some work for Expo67. Head over to Grain Edit for more of his work and info.
Edits by Edit
Edits for Edit is a project that features very limited edition posters by select designers that were asked to pick a genre of music, and create a design using only one element and one typeface. The A1 posters are screen printed on French Paper Pop Tone and for sale on the site.
The New Wave poster featured here is by my good friend Duane King.