Inked Posters Erik Jonsson

Erik Jonsson is a Swedish graphic designer now working in Brooklyn, New York.  What caught my eye with his portfolio was that in some of his works he has a very organic ink feel, like almost as if he took a paintbrush and dabbed his computer monitor with paint...somehow penetrating the screen through osmosis. Who am I kidding, I don't remember jack from AP Bio in my highschool years.  Either way, he combines colors and graphic shades really well.

50+ Years of Gentlemen's Quarterly Covers

I've been a long time fan of GQ, and have always appreciated the type work put into making the front covers.  After finding the GQ magazine cover archive, I dove head in to 529 covers, picking the ones for their design and layout work instead of which celebrity was featured.  Pretty amazing collection, I have to say.

They gradually transitioned from a heavy text and linear graphic usage to a cleaner and more trimmed look, going form serif to sans-serif and even losing the thin outline around the G and the Q starting in October of 1983.  Then around early 1995 they decided to do a little bit of a shadow behind the lettering, but then moved past that phase around 2000 and went back to solid lettering.  Right near the end of 2001 they started using the lighter opacity as it is seen on the cover today, in addition to using typographical symbols like bolded asterisks,positive signs, and angle brackets.

Images credited and belonging to GQ

Screenprinted Posters by Damien Tran (Berlin)

Damien Tran is a designer and screenprinter from Berlin Germany who makes some pretty awesome posters and prints.  Check out his Flickr for process photos and more.

Video Goodness: The Clock Clock

The clock clock by humans since 1982, 2010 from Humans since 1982 on Vimeo.

Dozens of small analog clocks combine to make a huge numeric display clock. Seriously awesome