Fauxster Poster Design by Bob Staake

Bob Staake is an illustrator from Chatham, Massachusetts who lives in a 200-year-old house on the elbow of Cape Cod with an impressively hefty client list who has authored/illustrated over 50 books.  He draws much of his design style from Mid-20th century European poster art, as can be seen from his poster work.

The term Fauxster is what he came up with in describing his fictitious design pieces.

20th Century Chinese Graphic Design

Came across some uncommon visuals of Chinese graphic design from the book Chinese Graphic Design of the Twentieth Century by Scott Minick and Jiao Ping.  Really liking the abstractness and Chinese character type work.  Very original pieces, if you ask me.

via Maryellen McFadden

Retro-Futuristic Star Wars Travel Posters by Steve Thomas

So apparently graphic designer Steve Thomas has been holding out on all of us and was holding back Star Wars travel posters from the omniscient eyes of the world wide web, biding his time like a true Jedi while everyone else put out their Star Wars art mash-ups.  

Based just north of the Twin-Cities (TIL Twin-Cities = Minneapolis & Saint Paul), Steve has a liking for retro-futuristic mid-20th century  design inspiration, as is evident in his works.  Theres just so much gung-ho-ness in these posters that I think I'm going to go to Tosche Station to pick up some power converters for my B-Wing to fly out and travel to these places. 

Follow him @stevethomasart