AisleOne. A visual journal on design, photography, film, music and culture.
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.
These beautiful and mysterious Pan Am posters were designed in 1971 by Chermayeff & Geismar. What’s remarkable about these posters — other than the minimal design and the use of Helvetica — is the power of the photography. The simple, sometimes monocromatic, images make a clear statement about the location and inspire the viewer. You can see a few other examples here and here.
DCrit student Frederico Duarte did a little digging and discovered some interesting info about the posters. You can read the story on the Eye Magazine blog and in a feature.
Some tight work by Leeds based Qubik Design.
The stuff that gets added to Blank’s Flickr page always leaves me amazed. I have no idea where they get all this vintage work from. They’ve recently updated their page with a ton of posters by Hans Neuburg, Herbert W. Kapitzki, Armin Hofmann and Josef Müller-Brockmann, many of them I’ve never seen before.
I love finding gems like this.
Anton Stankowski was a Germany designer and teacher who pioneered constructive graphic design and is probably best known for designing the wonderful Deutsche Bank logo, which makes excellent use of a grid. I also love how he used basic geometric shapes to create the visuals.
David has some hi-res images of Stankowski’s work. Beautiful.
