It has been a while since I have written about branding but Branch Creative caught my attention. Their solid color choices with minimal lines and typography kept me focused and interested in what they were displaying.

Here is a little bit about Branch Creative:

Branch Creative is an executive production and advertising house that represents a pool of photographers, illustrators and commercial directors from around the world. We created a sophisticated identity system with a playful typography treatment.

See more of their branding material on Behance.

Creative illustrations Ji Lee shows the meaning of different words with images. The goal was to create visual representation of a word, using only the letters that are contained within the word itself. If you want to see more, you can always purchase his book.

Swissted is an ongoing series by graphic designer Mike Joyce and owner of the Stereotype Design in New York.  He took two things that he enjoyed swiss modernism and punk and redesigned vintage punk show flyers into international typographic style posters. Each poster is sized to the standard swiss kiosk dimensions of 35.5 inches wide by 50 inches high and set in berthold akzidenz grotesk medium.

He states that all of these shows actually happened in his series. So I wanted to pick out some of the posters of bands that I have seen in concert. See below.

Check out all the other posters here: http://www.swissted.com/




Source: Wanken

Riccardo Sabatini designed this Mekkanika typeface which was inspired by old technical mechanic drawings and modern machinery. They are mixed together to form letters and numbers and this typeface was originally based on the letter form shape of DIN Alternate Black. Below our some of his typeface done in poster size.



































Source: Tundra Blog

Tim Wan is the creator of the Predictions Calendar Series. He states, "It's a series that interprets the definition of fakery by tampering with true events; placing them outside their original context to mislead, trigger nostalgia, and remind people of past events". It was such a success that it was awarded membership to International l Society of Typographic Designers. Not bad for someone who just graduated.

I personally find these calendars to be a great example of good design from the color palette choices to the layout and typography used in the design of these calendars. To bad these are not for sale. If they were they would be hanging in my house right now.

Click through to see more of Tim Wan works.






Source: Aisleone

FP7 is an ad agency that was looking for some promotional posters for an event as well as to hand out to the clients. The idea behind these posters was to base the posters on key insights about the agency world, that would make someone think. In the terms of design though, Ryan Atkinson and Steve De Lange went with the classic but edgy look using typography and the grid system to generate these minimal promotional posters. The agency wanted to have posters that the clients or future employee would want to keep. If I worked for this company I would definitely want a couple of these posters.  If you want to check out more posters in this series you can find them on Behance







Source: Behance