Design and Wonder in the Everyday

Bad ass mutha-posters

Friday, March 19th, 2010



Notice a trend in designers creating movie poster remakes? It may be a sign of jobless designers creating money-making side projects or an emergent theme of inspiration wafting through the ethers. Whatever the case, here’s Ibraheem Youssef’s take on some Quentin Tarantino films. We’ve been following this guy on Flickr, but have failed to feature him yet. Well, it’s about time!

Designing with the Force

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

Graphic designer and illustrator Justin Van Genderen’s Star Wars posters have been making the rounds lately and they are certainly Agogo worthy. Be sure to check out his Tatooine and Bespin posters too!

Influencing this post is the fact that the wife and I attended a prom last night as chaperones and got our prom photo taken — Star Wars style! (No Storm Troopers were hurt in the taking of the photo.)

Three color movie poster redesigns

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

Illustrator and designer Chris Thornley has good taste in movies and a lot of pent up creative energy. At least it looks that way according to this great Flickr set of black, red, and off-white cult favorite movie posters. Makes me want to take out the old VHS.

Left brain, right brain, form into Infographic!

Friday, April 10th, 2009

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I’ve been so busy preparing signage, flyers, stickers and what have you for an upcoming conference for work. In the midst of all the chaos, I’ve managed to work on a poster presentation for a colleague who is presenting at a national conference. Although it only took me a few hours, I am surprised at how much I like it.

It’s interesting that after working so intensely in the visual centers of the brain, I found it incredibly difficult when asked to actually look at the text to make edits. My corpus callosum was straining under the task.

In any case, here is the end result. This small version is the only one I’ll be posting to display the overall design because the numbers are still under review by committee.