Posters, Illustrations and Typography by Ben Barry (Palo Alto)

Some truly inspring design work from Ben Barry, a University of North Texas graduate and a designer at Facebook.  Ben Barry has also been a member of the hyper talented design collective The Decoder Ring, and during his time there designed some of the amazing posters featured at the beginning of this post.  He has a great ability to design very different styles in very different elements -- but his execution always comes out really clean, and really well done -- whether it be ornamental type, complicated patterns, diagrams or gig posters.  Make sure to check out his website, its also really well designed and fun to click around.  And it seems relevant to check out his Facebook page too.

The Coolest Posters From SXSW 2011

The Dig For Fire Lawn Party

Source Code Poster by Olly Moss.

 Amazing illustration work, as usual, from Tyler Stout, via the Mondo blog

 Another beautiful poster by Tom Whalen aka Strongstuff, via the Mondo blog

Film poster for Sudor Frio.

via Rockthought

Floating Fest poster

Pinpoint Music Party at SXSW.

Music Yorkshire SXSW Party poster

via Rockthought

Festival Poster: Twangfest 2011 at SXSW

A pretty cool poster for this year's Twangfest in Austin, Texas.

Gig Posters and More by Curtis Jenkins

Curtis Jenkins is an artist working out of Austin Texas who has some pretty amazing poster designs in his portfolio.