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Category Archives: Illustration


Internation Year of Chemistry Posters by Simon Page

Internation Year of Chemistry Posters by Simon Page

Simon C Page is back with another series of prints ded­i­cated to a field of sci­ence. As usual, they are fan­tas­tic. Great col­ors, great type, great min­i­mal­ism. View them all here. See his other set of posters devoted to astronomy, …

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IBM Smarter Planet

IBM Smarter Planet

Being a huge fan of Herb Lubalin and pretty much every­thing that came out of that man’s brain, I love these posters that intel­li­gently incor­po­rate his ITC Lubalin Graph type­face. To me, this type­face speaks to all things techy with …

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Feltron 2010 Annual Report

Feltron 2010 Annual Report

The mas­ter of info­graph­ics has struck again. Nicholas Fel­ton has released his Fel­tron 2010 Annual Report. As usual, the annual report is packed with great typog­ra­phy, flaw­less lay­outs and killer charts, graphs and what-have-yous. This issue stuck out to me …

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Excellent New Paintings from Oliver Jeffers

Excellent New Paintings from Oliver Jeffers

I really can’t stress enough how much I like the paint­ings of Oliver Jef­fers. His oil paint­ings are very true to life but they still con­tain a very unique char­ac­ter­is­tic. I am not sure if it is the brush­strokes, use …

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Aaron Horkey and Jay Ryan Art Print

Aaron Horkey and Jay Ryan Art Print

This is one of the great­est things I have ever seen. From two of my favorite poster design­ers, Aaron Horkey and Jay Ryan, comes this won­der­ful cre­ation. It is a thir­teen color screen­print! I recently told my fiancé to stop …

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Alvin Lustig

Alvin Lustig

I love design from the first half of the 20th cen­tury. It is the period that marked the birth of mod­ern adver­tis­ing and design. For some rea­son, maybe because I wasn’t pay­ing atten­tion, I don’t remem­ber learn­ing a whole lot …

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The Perfect Pour

The Perfect Pour

This self-promotional poster from Plaid Inc. is a nice mix of info­graph­ics and cof­fee. This would have been great when I worked at a café so that I could have made those drinks cus­tomers ordered that I’d never heard of …

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Aaron Horkey's

Aaron Horkey’s “Midwestern Heart”

Yet another incred­i­ble print by Aaron Horkey. This man has got some seri­ous tal­ent. This poster, like his oth­ers, was drawn by hand. Unbe­liev­able, right? More info can be found here.

The Bungaloo: Fairly Recent Update

The Bungaloo: Fairly Recent Update

My friend and fel­low designer at the Bun­ga­loo recently updated his site with some new work. As usual, the posters are so fun to look at. I espe­cially dig his Liars poster with the torn wall­pa­per theme. Very cool. Buy them …

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Tavis Coburn

Tavis Coburn

Tavis Coburn is an illus­tra­tor who’s work is inspired by vin­tage prints, comic books and Russ­ian avant-garde. His port­fo­lio has sev­eral strik­ing por­trait illus­tra­tions as well as nar­ra­tive and con­cep­tual pieces. His por­trai­ture is what really stands out to me. …

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