Classic Swiss Design by Emil Ruder

Looking at a lot of ads and billboards these days, you can easily trace traditional swiss grid design in the type work, where the perfect alignment and placement of text on a print is part of the overlooked design composition.  With the right amount of kerning, margins, and formation of lettering, a design can go from zero to hero, and Emil Ruder here does just that.  

Emil Ruder was born in Swtizerland and studied Bauhaus and typography at the Zurich School of Arts and Crafts and later became a typography instructor.  

“Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing." -ER

via @80Magazine

The Biopölitan Project by Mark Brooks

The Biopölitan Project

King Pigeon Yoga Posters

Swaan + Christos USA Tour Promo Posters

Mark Brooks has put out some new series of posters, all of which I like, particularly his Biopölitan Project.  I really find it cool how the deer has a digital feel, with the eagle having a paintbrush effect, and the frog an ink blot effect.  The red circle in the middle in the image series seems odd, but somehow works with the pieces.  And the yoga posters have a very zen-esque look.

Check out or original post on his Star Grid Posters here.

Star Grid Posters by Mark Brooks

*enlarged to show texture

Mark Brooks is a graphic designer originally from Barcelona, Spain (though he is also around New York) who also does visual identity, album covers, and clothing.  His Star Grid Poster series is meticulously amazing, it must've taken quite some time to get the detail out of all of those stars.  Its almost as if a blind person is reading braille in the form of famous heads. Except with lots and lots of stars. Very well done.