Six Architects is a series of minimalist posters showing the major architects and main principles of modern architecture. Conceived and created by artist Andrea Gallo.
Check the posters of Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Louis Kahn, Alvar Aalto and Walter Gropius. Which one do you prefer?
Donna Wearmouth, a graphic designer and gruaduate from Northumbria University, designed these monochrome posters as part of her degree.
For a fictional architect’s gallery, which she dubbed the Quadra Gallery, Wearmouth created the identity, stationary, exhibition guides, and these posters.
I could really see this work, couldn’t you?
After years of digging around for interesting posters it’s easy to foolishly assume I’ve seen everything good there is to see. Then I come across work like that of Italian designer Mimmo Castellano and am once again reminded that you’ve never really seen it all. The images are from this GrainEdit post where, unfortunately, they do not mention the source. I would love to find which book they got these scans from, or better yet, where I can get my hands on some full size prints. If anyone has any suggestions, let me know.
via GrainEdit
In 1971, graphic design firm Chermayeff & Geismar made these beautiful posters for Pan Am World Airways.
It’s interesting to see how the designers have been able to create the desired effect with just one image. The MoMA site says it beautifully:
… Cultural fantasies and ideals are projected through monumental imagery, presenting people and environments as distant objects of beauty.
All images courtesy of Milton Glaser Design Study Center and Archives.
Though not the most minimalist posters out there, the reduction of the two cities into one poster series, Paris versus New York, by Vahram Muratyan, cofounder of ViiiZ, really hits the spot.
Muratyan puts it most elegantly:
A visual but friendly match between those two cities seen by a lover of Paris wandering through New York’s infinite details, clichés and contradictions : this way, please.
Something that I know I’d love to receive for a Christmas gift this year!
Recently I found this great set of minimalist posters by Emil Ruder, Swiss typographer and graphic designer. Ruder (1914-1970) played an important role in the development and dissemination of the Swiss Style.
“Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing.” – Emil Ruder
He has helped, together with Armin Hofmann, to found the Schule für Gestaltung, Basel (Basel School of Design), and was known for encouraging his students to be more concerned with precision, proportions and the role of legibility and communication with type.
Design duo Tyler Lang and Elsa Chaves are Always With Honor, an Portland-based design team with a specialty in beautifully simple information displays and iconography.
I first got turned on to / by their work when I spotted this awesome poster. It visualizes the many domains within design. Somewhat awesomely.
(Here’s a link to a massive hi-res version)
Simple shapes, simple typography, simple colour characterises their work. I snaffled them up for a spread in Information Is Beautiful about the various creation stories across cultures – scientific and mythological.
Struck me there was something ... (Read more...)
Israelian friends Luka Or (multi disciplinary designer), Orian Canetti (interior designer) and Elad Ziv (developer) joined forces to form WE Collective, a new design studio.
To celebrate the start of this new venture, Luka Or designed these colourful minimalist posters.
I love how they do away with the popular notion that minimalism has something to do with the absence of colour, which is completely wrong of course (it’s merely the number of colours).
So: hooray for colour, and welcome WE!
Italian friends Luka Or (multi disciplinary designer), Orian Canetti (interior designer) and Elad Ziv (developer) joined forces to form WE Collective, a new design studio.
To celebrate the start of this new venture, Luka Or designed these colourful minimalist posters.
I love how they do away with the popular notion that minimalism has something to do with the absence of colour, which is completely wrong of course (it’s merely the number of colours).
So: hooray for colour, and welcome WE!
Since 2003, Polish design studio Homework, a duo comprised of Joanna Górska and Jerzy Skakun, have created posters for a range of cultural events.
Regardless of whether you can read Polish or not, the designers’ portrayal of the events in question, particularly the Hollywood movie references, gives you good idea about what is being advertised with minimal effort.
Actually, there’s a game in this: visit Homework’s website and see how many events you can guess the relevant posters are for. Unless you understand Polish of course, in which case you’d be cheating.
An exhibition of the studio’s work at ... (Read more...)
