What an incredibly delightful design from vintage Air Canada. This has almost made my weekend, it’s utterly gorgeous.

► Found on Flickr

Why do “we” never tire with this fascination/obsession with vintage design? The work that Paul Rogers turns out inspires me no end. There are many more examples of Paul’s work over on his website.

► Found on DesignWorkLife

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.

► Found on DesignFetish.

The James Bond Penguin Cover Prints were initially released in 2008 as a celebration of the centenary of Ian Fleming’s birth. Michael Gillette’s Penguin James Bonder covers are now available as limited edition, signed and numbered prints.

What I would do to own all of those… Found via http://retronaut.co

View the complete collection of James Bond Penguin Cover Prints

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.

The phrases showcased are:

1. One life is too short for doing everything.
2. We like design to be visually powerful, intellectually elegant and above all timeless.
3. If you can design one thing, then you can design everything.
4. If you do it right, it will last forever.
5. The life of a designer is a life of fight against the ugliness.

I am particular fan of # 5.

Vignelli Forever found via AdWeek in their Talent Gallery.

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. You can also see a Flickr set containing this image.

It wasn’t the book that caught my eye but the awesome title. A title just perfect for some idiotic tinkering by this creative individual.

I doubt I am the only one with a cupboard full of dead clients–I think one or two might still be alive– and not to mention that the floorboards are getting a little full right now. I am happy to say that once I saw this book I started to see the error of my ways and I come before you to not preach but to pass on some valuable advice.

No matter how frustrated you might get with a non-paying client or a client who has stolen one of your valuable ideas; killing them I now believe is a tad over-the-top. I have started to explore less permanent solutions to my client issues, and am happy to say I have gone 1 month without killing a single client.

Never Kill A Client – It’s Just Not Cricket.

Fonts

The brilliant and free Franchise Font by Derek Weathersby was used for the leader whilst Helvetica Neue was used for all other body copy.

Download

If you want to you can download a vector file of this poster or you can just grab the images in this post as they are reasonably high resolution JPG’s.

Feel free to mess around with the colours in the base Illustrator file BUT please leave the content and sign-off intact. If you wish to reblog this then by all means please do so BUT ensure you direct your readers to this post for any downloads.

Other Posters

I am not a poster designer but I have a few other poster designs that I have cobbled together than you may find fun. These include a personal favourite: No. I don’t design logos.

Due to 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.

I have filled out the design with larger text with emphasis on ass. I think the reference to ass was lost on some; it’s a nod to some peoples perception of what competement logo design involves as well as reaffirming that the buttocks are indeed a source for all your logo designs.

Added a mono version as well for all you purists.

Download vector file of all 3 Posters

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 that you can now…

Pre-Order your copy

The poster is now available to pre order over at Scribble On Everything for a very reasonable $29. It is printed on a 24 x 18″ sheet of Classic Crest Epic Black, printed 3 colours by traditional offset.

I will have a few copies to giveaway in time, so sign up to my RSS feed to make sure you don’t miss out.

Aboard the Imperial Star Destroyer

A selection of 8 Star Wars themed posters inspired by the vintage travel poster style advertisements of yesteryear. All created by Steve Thomas who has apparently been sitting on these since 2008 and has only just now decided to put them out there.

View the entire selection - More work by Steve on Zazzle

Originally found on All-Encompassing Trip

Mos Eisley Desert Classic

The Swaps of Dagobah

Java Sandcrawler Scavenging Across Tatooine

Kessel Run Tours

Rebel Transport, Inc.

Rogue Squadron Airshow

Coruscant Lambda Class Imperial Shuttles

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.

Piccsy has a great collection of art and photographs, free to browse, but an invite is required to post and submit your own images. It is a site that has a large number of ‘erotic’ images, so if you are of a puritanical disposition, best walk away now.

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.

As described on Flickr, “Retro DHARMA ads found in various old mags from the 60s – 80s.“, one can almost believe they are the real thing.

These posters can all be found on the Flickr Dharma Flickr set.

You can also buy these as prints direct from ImageKind

David Watson, a graphic designer from Trebleseven sent in his stunning typographic football World Cup poster for me to share on my website. Not being particularly fond of football it would take a lot to get me to post about it. My first reaction was OMG. Colour, bold, lovely typography and beautifully designed. Then the clincher, the poster is all in a good cause.

David created the post to support Soccer Aid. Sales of the A1 double sided poster raises money for Soccer Aid – a British charity event which raises money for UNICEF.

The front side of the poster (below) lists all the groups, A-H so you can clearly see which countries are in which group. A calendar runs down the right hand side listing chronologically all the matches to be played in the tournament:

Front – UNICEF worldcup calendar poster

Reverse – UNICEF worldcup calendar poster

I want that poster

The A1 double sided poster, produced in collaboration with G&B printers and PhoeniXmotion paper, is currently on press but will be available to buy soon for the princely sum of £10 (£7 for the print, £3 for post/packaging).

For more info and to buy one, contact David Watson on david@trebleseven.com

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.

Originally found on : http://pitchdesignunion.com/

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.

You can see them on his Flickr site as well

Link found on Laughingsquid

100% Comic Sans, 0% Humour

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. I’m reluctant to use the term ‘typographic’ in the same sentence as Comic Sans for obvious reasons.

There is a nice documentary style video circulating on the use of Comic Sans over on my Posterous blog, via hellotypo.com

LoveHelvetica

If you are into Helvetica as much as I am, then you might like my little side blog LoveHelvetica, running on the Posterous blogging platform. The theme is due for an update, but the content is still very much king. If you find anything of note, Helvetica wise, please do let me know and I can post it on Helvetica.