Decorative Lettering Done Well by Annie Yiling Wang

Annie Yiling Wang is a student at the Minneapolis College of Art & Design, and beautifully implemented elegant lettering and decorations into a modern, informative and attractive poster on safe sex.  One of the most elegant and attractive ways of spreading a public service message about STD's, unlike the cheesy, uninspiring and boring PSA's you might see from the government.

via Mikey Burton

Detroit Punk Flyers from 1985-1988

A collection of zeroxed-style punk rock flyers from the eighties, found in this Flickr set by DetroitDerek.

Vintage Japanese posters for the Industrial Expo from the 1928-1941

Grand Exposition in Commemoration of the Imperial Coronation – Kyoto, 1928

I love Japanese art, and I love the Pink Tentacle, especially this post they made about these Vintage Japanese Expo posters that you see here.  The posters are part of a collection taken from this book, Nihon no Hakurankai.

National Defense Science Exposition – Hyogo, 1941

 Asia Development and Defense Exposition – Toyota City, 1941

 Second Sino-Japanese War Exhibition – Osaka, 1938

 Nagoya Pan-Pacific Peace Exposition – Nagoya, 1937

 Japan-Manchuria Industrial Exhibition – Toyama, 1936

 Exposition Commemorating the Construction of Hakata Port – Fukuoka, 1936

  Yokohama Exposition – Yokohama, 1935

Exposition Commemorating Hakata Port Construction – Fukuoka, 1936

The National Products Progress Exhibition – Kagoshima, 1931

 Sea and Air Exhibition – Tokyo, 1930

Via  Pink Tentacle's post, Vintage Japanese industrial expo posters

Images from the book Nihon no Hakurankai

Obey Giant - New Stuff

Poster for show in Cincinnati only available there.

Definitely good for a a comic tour poster, like Tyler Stout's Flight of the Conchords work.
Sold out here 

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Collaboration with Shepard Fairey, Cleon Peterson and Casey Ryder.
For Artists for Peace and Justice.  All proceeds go to Haiti.

If you're a Steven Colbert fan, download the printable pdf here.

Collaboration with Ernesto Yerena, available here.

Shepard Fairey of Obey Giant seems to be doing work for not-so-typical clients lately; the Henry Rollins and Stephen Colbert prints definitely surprised me.  I can't say much about how much Goodness is in those posters (I doubt that the colbert one was actually touched by Shepard's hand...looks like something you could draft up in Illustrator...while forgetting completely about the type).  However, the typography and geometry is VERY appealing in the first one, and I hope that's not arguable.  See more OBEY in our previous posts.

Obey Giant

Some newer and older posters from Obey.
Some say Shepard is losing his touch with his newer work after his image really got bigger after the establishment of obey and his print work for the Obama campaign.

Either way, he's still laying it down on the government with his art direction that represents a voice much larger than his own, offering inspiration and affecting others to do work.

>>More on the "Let Fury Have the Hour" Documentary

>>Shepard's most recent poster done in response to the disappointing efforts in health reform.

Gaieties of 1936

I'm sure that most of you havent seen a flyer this old before.  An old handbill from the 1930's for a play in Los Angeles, right in the Greek Theatre.  It's pretty bold and attention-demanding -- seeing how the masters of the day brought in people by making their messages loud and announced, while working with very simple drawing and printing processes.
via Shorpy

Gary Grimshaw

 

 

 

 

 

One of the legendary gig poster artists, Gary Grimshaw helped to shape the poster scene in his native Detroit, contributing his psychadelic and zany style since the 1960's.  Check out his website to see more of his work.

Obey Propaganda

Flyers for Obey Giant that have that defiant and old school feel like you're ready to march off to a protest with a cardboard poster and conventional torch in hand. They evoke an almost political satire-from-past-decades feel in a contemporary setting that has risen in popularity through the art direction of renown graphic designer / actvist / dj Shepard Fairey who designed the Obama "HOPE" poster like a boss.

His use of artistic talent for nonprofit organizations and the less fortunate make his design work that much more awesome and inspiring. His most recent work on American artist Jasper Johns here and his work from earlier in the year on a shirt in promotion of a film on the preservation of nature called 180 South.

+also the Obey sample sale (preview) is this weekend for those of you in the socal region. Having gone to one last year, the line can get pretty lengthy and tedious, but for $10 shirts from them its not half bad.

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World's Fair Posters

 

These poster designs are just as stunning as they are ancient -- and they wure are able to graphically convey, very powerfully, the notions of progress, power, and innovation that the World Fair stood for.

Campionato Mondiale Ciclo-Cross 1965

Is it that hard to believe that this poster was designed 45 years ago?  Either way, it's sick, and it's done in a style that we still see done by artists today.  Design credits unknown -- if you have any idea of who it might be, please comment!

Otl Aicher - Munich Olympics 1972

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Classic German designer Otl Aicher is the man who started it all with the minimal and retro styles you see today, especially seen in his poster designs for the 1972 Olympics in Munich.