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What an incredibly delightful design from vintage Air Canada.


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The work that Paul Rogers turns out inspires me no end. There are many more examples of Paul’s work over on his website.


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Pantone Superhero Posters by Gidi Vigo—which you can view more over on Artflakes—is one of those incredibly annoying ideas that one can’t quite understand how one didn’t think of it.


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The James Bond Penguin Cover Prints were initially released in 2008 as a celebration of the centenary of Ian Fleming’s birth.


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Very nice set of posters by Anthony Neil Dart. We have one poster summing up five phrases by Massimo Vignelli then a further five posters each with one phrase displayed.


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Came across a post on a Tumblr blog, apartness, that fronted a literary classic. The book in question is called “Never Kill A Client” by Brett Halliday, and first published by Dell in 1963.


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Due to quite a bit of interest in the previous version of this poster I felt it was about time to refresh it a little–not to mention address the minor issue of the incorrect apostrophe.


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The Typefaces of the World poster by Shelby (@wanken) has been doing the circuit over the last week, and quite rightly so. I blogged about it over on the other channel last week, the reason I am posting again is …


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A selection of 8 Star Wars themed posters inspired by the vintage travel poster style advertisements of yesteryear by Steve Thomas.


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Unearthed this beauty on Piccsy.com Not much you can really say about this, the combination of coffee cup and cigarette within the ampersand almost looks natural. Really well executed, clean and simple.


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The hit Television series Lost has sporned a whole alternative culture, mostly focused on the Dharma Initiative. These vintage Dharma adverts are just classic, they really capture this sub culture and way of life.


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David Watson, a graphic designer from Trebleseven sent in his stunning typographic football World Cup poster for UNICEF.


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Stunning typographic posters from HappyCentro. This series is a part of a whole alphabet. The concept was: Take a letter of an alphabet, looking for a selection of 10 cities in the world that starts with this letter, say which languages are spoken in these places, say where are you from and which is your language. It was a research project around the concept of the TRAVELLING.


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Just came across this amazing posters on Behance by Justin Van Genderen. I am a super fan of condensed typefaces and love seeing them displayed on posters such as this. Works really well.


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A while back I knocked up a Helvetica poster called 100% Helvetica, 0% Arial – Typography Poster. A semi educational poster on the importance of using Helvetica. This is in preference to the socially destructive Arial. For laughs I then created this Comic Sans version. There is a nice documentary style video circulating on the use of Comic Sans.


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Continuing my series of Helvetica based TV and Movie posters (Silence of the Lambs and Stargate Atlantis), I proudly bring you House M.D. once of my most watched TV shows. Love the character, love the acting, the humour, the banter and the various personality conflicts.



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