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Flying Cars by Sylvain Viau
Sylvain Viau shot this fun series against the seascape of Cherbourg, France using both his own and his friends’ cars from the ’80s and ’90s. These floating cars in the photo series delightfully...
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Vintage Film Posters From The Golden Age of XXX
While obviously the content of these posters is unapologetically dirty, not to mention the films themselves, we have to say, the design on some of them are fantastic. From back in the day when people...
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Graphic Design and Playing Cards
One of the most versatile items ever invented is the playing card. The number of decks sold each year is staggering; the US Playing Card company alone sells more than 100 million decks to individuals...
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The 10 Best Logo Redesigns of All Time
If a picture is worth a thousand words, a well-designed logo can be valued at twice that amount. Sure, a memorable slogan or catchy jingle can help to keep a business in the forefront of a consumer’s...
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Design Program
We just found this great article by Display on The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Design Program, an "emblematic design program" that was eventually dropped. The article follows a...
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New Book: Logo Modernism
In this unprecedented publication by TASCHEN, author Jens Müller brings together approximately 6,000 trademarks, focused on the period 1940–1980, to examine how modernist attitudes and imperatives...
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Ski-Ffy, a Collection of Science Fiction Book Cover Art
Being lovers of book cover design, and especially vintage book cover design, and even more so vintage science fiction book cover design, we were pleased to come across Ski-Ffy, a blog that features...
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Sam's Myth: Designs for Cult Film Posters and Albums
Nashville-based designer and musician Sam Smith works under the moniker Sam’s Myth. The bulk of his work is a series of film posters (both commissioned and uncommissioned), which reveals his early-age...
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Someday Is Now: The Immaculate Legacy of Sister Corita Kent
The following essay by Michael Duncan is part of the companion book on the remarkable career and social activism of Corita Kent that was on display at the Pasadena Museum of California Art. Corita...
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Best of 2015: Adult Movie Posters of the 60s and 70s
Before home video brought pornography into living rooms in the 1980s, adult films were projected to audiences in theaters and even reviewed by Variety and The New York Times. Films were often made...
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Graphic Means: A History of Graphic Design Production
It’s been roughly 30 years since the desktop computer revolutionized the way the graphic design industry works...
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Book Jackets for Your Life Stories
In March of 2016, Steve St. Pierre asked his social networks, "If you had to title your life story (up to this point), what would it be called?" A slew of responses came in, and the covers here are the...
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The NASA Standards Manual Reissue is Here
It's amazing that in a world that is at rocket speed in the technology revolution, we still have this desire to be influenced and to admire what design was 40-50 years ago. NASA, besides its incredible...
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A Life in Letterpress
On April 21, the fantastic Pick Me Up Graphic Arts Festival opens at London's Somerset House, and there is a fantastic program of some top design and small print houses who showcase their work. We have...
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Rediscovering Robert Brownjohn
Thanks to the work of his daughter Eliza, the work of the late designer and art director Robert Brownjohn can now be found online. Some iconic work by BJ (As he was known) includes the Goldfinger...
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The Old (And New) Standard: Reviving a piece of NASA history
In 2015, designers Jesse Reed and Hamish Smyth had a brilliant idea; as NASA imagery is public-domain, they created a Kickstarter campaign to publish the NASA Graphics Standards Manual as a hardcover...
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How Stranger Things Got Its Retro Title Sequence
Vox explores how Netflix's new hit thriller"Stranger Things" got it's title sequence.
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See Red Women’s Workshop Feminist Posters 1974-1990
Founded in 1974, See Red Women’s Workshop grew out of a shared desire to combat sexist images of women and to create positive and challenging alternatives. Women from different backgrounds came...
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Aaron Draplin: The Major Design
A proper logo speaks a universal language. Designer, tradesman, and self-proclaimed collector-of-stuff, Aaron Draplin has made a career solving puzzles of visual communication and promoting fundamental...
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The NASA Standards Manual Reissue is Here
It's amazing that in a world that is at rocket speed in the technology revolution, we still have this desire to be influenced and to admire what design was 40-50 years ago. NASA, besides its incredible...
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