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Some nice collage work from Paris based Laurindo Feliciano. I enjoy how each piece contains a range of emotions when you spend time overlooking all of the elements.

Some nice work from Scott Campbell out of New Orleans. I particularly like his use of halftones in his work, they bring out a nice but not to heavy texture. More great work over at his site where most of these posters are also available as prints.

Above is the poster I created for this year’s AIGA Always Summer Poster Show held in my hometown of Jacksonville, FL. For the event you’re asked to choose a song that reminds you of summer and design a poster around it. I chose the song “Nightcall” by Kavinsky which also features Lovefoxxx from CSS. This poster was a lot of fun to work on because it’s a departure from my usual style. Also, I wanted to choose a song that made me reminisce of summer nights instead of the days like I created last year. This song and poster reflects upon nights just driving around the city listening to music, lying on a beach or just looking out at the stars. I referenced such things as 80′s horror movie posters and the classic Goosebumps books that I used to read when I was a kid to give it a mysterious movie poster type feel. Be sure to listen to the song below.

Kavinsky feat. Lovefoxxx — Nightcall

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I have always truly admired the work of Network Osaka. He consistently puts out great design that really hits home with the minimal/modern style that I appreciate so much. It’s so awesome how restrained he his with his style and yet it always says so much. Check out his extensive portfolio here.

Throughout the course of the Olympics there have been some really great poster designs and branding efforts. Most of them however fall on and before the 1980 Moscow games which is where the first three awesome posters above come from. One of my favorite years though has to be the 1972 Munich games which I have posted about before. Luckily the search is over though for pretty much any Olympic poster because The Olymperials showcases every year since 1896.

Above is the poster I created for this year’s AIGA Always Summer Poster show which was held last night with a great turnout. For the event you’re asked to choose a song that reminds you of summer and design a poster around it. I chose the song “Low Shoulder” by Toro Y Moi which can be listened to below. Be sure to check out a larger version of the poster in my portfolio. Prints will be available soon in the Atlas Store.

Toro Y Moi — Low Shoulder

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Dating from the late 1700s up through the 1990s playbills were the main form of communication for theatrical events and as you can see utilized some very impressive type and layout options to really grab hold of the public’s attention. Leeds Playbills contains nearly 5,000 high resolution scans of these vibrant playbills which are part of the Leodis digitization project from the Local Studies Library collection in Leeds. The time and care that went into setting the type and printing these bills is amazing and well worth the tedious effort to produce posters like these.

Via Woodtyper.

A nice array of Belgian design work dating back to the late 19th century and up through the 1980′s courtesy of Veerle. It’s awesome seeing the variety of style and approach throughout different decades and how different time periods influenced specific trends and techniques. What’s great however is that most of the work looks like it could of been created yesterday. Quality design is that which can stand the test of time.

Check out more work at Veerle’s Belgian design gallery.