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csillagok háborúja

That's Star Wars in Hungarian, apparently. Have a look at these crazy movie posters. Either they got sent totally different films to the rest of us, or there was an abundance of lsd at the time. Either way, they're pretty cool.

TRUE GRIT

Some nice posters for the new Coen Brothers film, True Grit. Based on a novel by Charles Portis, there's also a 60s John Wayne version - but this one excites me a tad more. Nice bit of type; designed by BLT & Associates. Their website has a rather cool navigation system to peruse their portfolio of film posters. Have a look.

KEEP THE DOCTOR AWAY

Another great piece of work found on behance.net
New year's healthy diet? Trying to eat more fruit? Like buying random posters to fill your already cluttered walls?
Me too (well, the latter anyhow). Check out this little doozey.

Fill the days with your little sticker, and track your progress. Awesome.
Here's there portfolio | And here's where you can buy one!

DON'T FORGET

I like guerilla advertising, I also like (intelligent) graffiti... This is a cool idea. A lot of people probably don't realise how much work goes into making all those pretty girls in those trashy magazines and what not, actually look the way they do.

Not much info on it I'm afraid. If anyone has any leads, or more examples of this kind of thing - leave a comment! Found on ffffound. More pics HERE.

LETTERPRESS

Every now and then, you see something, and it doesn't really sink in. You have to go back to it a while later to really appreciate it... This is a good example.






"This letterpress poster was handcrafted character by character over the course of roughly 100 hours. Characters from the Bickham Script Pro, Engravers MT, and Epic typeface families form the edifice featured in the artwork, the Salt Lake Temple. Each poster measures 16"x24" and is printed on Crane Lettra Pearl."

Jesus.

christmas by colour

Just saw this on formfiftyfive and think its an ace little competition.

All you have to do is create your colour breakdown and description of a christmas related colour.

Deadline is 28th November so enter at christmas by colour soon here

This year poster 2009

A pretty nice A0 2009 poster/calendar by this studio

It's only £17 (without shipping), avaliable to buy at justgonesix. The problem is do you write on it... or not?

photoshop cs4 poster

This flickr set is really impressive, creating the photoshop work area out of real materials to advertise the launch of cs4.
More images here

BRAND INTEGRATION MOVIE POSTERS

Alternate posters for films with type set product placement and branding from each film. Strange idea. Look nice though. linky mc link.

It's from another blog, but sadly they haven't let us know where you can actually buy them from...

POLISH POSTERS

Have you noticed how sometimes films with awesome posters have really lame dvd covers...?
Or how most posters just suck in general? If it's not a huge red sans, it's Trajan. Guaranteed.
Anyway, I'm not here to talk about fonts. (?!). I've stumbled upon these little booties.
"These conceptual masterpieces put the original American posters to shame"
Here's my favourites:





Taken from wellmedicated.com

cinematypography poster

Check out this by David at SeptemberIndustry
The A1 poster is printed in PANTONE® Cool Gray 11 C and is a is a combination of: 70 film titles, 70 typefaces, and the creative talents of: Build, KentLyons, Neue, SampsonMay, This Studio, Un.titled and more.
Unfortunately it's sold out, but perhaps they'll print some more?
wink wink
Find it at boutique

GOOD TYPOGRAPHY IS INVISIBLE

Was having a conversation with a mate t'other weekend - I was telling him how my new obsessive compulsion is to shift the baseline of all @ symbols down a tad. They always seem to sit too high.

He asked whether that sort of thing really stands out, and if it's worth taking the time to do so... Made me think. No one is really going to notice that all the a glyphs in the @ symbols are sitting more in suit with the other letterforms... But that's the point. You don't want people to notice.

Just saw this on a few different blogs... Think it sums it all up pretty well.

Rastorbating at work, The Great Office Migration, and the Fontbots

We've recently moved office... We're now approx 10ft away.

In a vain attempt to liven up our new work environment - we used a neat bit of software called Rastorbator, which can create a bitmap of any image, then splits it up so you can print it out on loads of bits of paper, then tile them together. nifty.

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After stumbling upon, the down-right fantastic, fontbots on some dude's portfolio, we decided they deserve to live in our new office.