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Binary and the Brain: The Pioneers Poster

Shelby White — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 05:04:24 +0000

In this poster, Binary and the Brain were paying homage to some of the world’s greatest pioneers from the NASA photograph archives. The poster is printed on 100% recycled, heavy, matte stock and can be purchased from their website.

Serif + Sans Serif Classification

Shelby White — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:30:58 +0000

It’s a beautiful thing to see typefaces classified and grouped for us to quickly look at from day to day. Particularly I’ve found the Periodic Table of Typefaces to be most helpful. For nearly a year I had it as my desktop background. Every time I looked at my desktop I was looking at type and studying. You can grab the full desktop version here.

These next posters by Martin Plonka are all about Serif and Sans-serif classification. Besides being a beautiful set, I could see them being very useful in classrooms to help students understand the categories of type as well as seeing examples of the type in application. These posters are somewhat small but Martin covers these categories:

• Slab Serif
• Serif Old Style
• Serif Transitional
• Serif Modern
• Sans Humanist
• Sans (Neo)Grotesque
• Sans Geometric

Swiss Poster Collection: 1971 to the present

Shelby White — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:17:44 +0000

Cargegie Mellon University is the home to a very large Swiss Poster Collection. There are more than 300 works ranging from 1970 to present time. This collection was established by Swiss graphic designer Ruedi Ruegg and Professor Daniel Boyarski.

The Collection contains work by designers such as Max Bill, Paul Bruhwiler, Ruedi Kulling, Herbert Leupin, Josef Muller-Brockmann, Roger Pfund, Ruedi Ruegg, Niklaus Troxler, Wolfgang Weingart, Kurt Wirth, R. Schraivogel, Cornel Windlin, and many others.

Check out more posters and information on the Swiss Collections website.

Andrio Abero Designspiration

Shelby White — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:39:26 +0000

I was sifting through holiday gift ideas and stumbled upon Andrio Abero’s work. These posters, my favorites, are some of his best. The typography and intermixing of detail within really sets the style and feel of these posters.