Andrea Manzati is the creator of the space travel series that was created for Fast Company magazine and was displayed as a full page illustration. I can see why it got a full page just look at the detail and concept of future ideas of spaceships. I'm digging the series also due to the color palette choice and also cause it has to do with space.  Who doesn't like space?  Check out more of Andrea work on Behance

These series is very creative and clever and was created by Patricia Povoa. She ran with the idea of making minimal posters about the most recognizable haircuts of iconic famous people and fictional characters on the planet.  Her minimal style uses great colors and various shapes to identify very quickly who these iconic hairstyles belonged too.  Check out her other series like the My Childhood Heroes series.



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Italian illustrator Franco Brambilla who is devoted to sci-fi has created this series Invading the Vintage. He takes grandpa's old postcards and invades them with aliens from sci-fi movies and old tv shows. I'm sure this series will put a smile on a lot of Star Wars fans and those of the sci-fi community. I know it put a smile on my nerdy face. Franco does have prints available as well as calendars for sale here and you can check his flickr account here.

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/




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“The Fundamental Elements of Design” by Erica Gorochow is an interesting and short animated video explaining design fundamentals and how they are used to build an iconic brand. I think this video gives a simple but clear picture that sometimes "less is more" in design. I think that saying of "less is more" is always going to be a big part of the design world. Check this video out and see what its all about, who knows you could save yourself 25,000 in tuition fees.




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I stumbled upon some interesting Japanese graphic design posters from the 1920s-30s over on Pinktentacle. In these posters a new form of design looks to be emerging. The new design style making its way was due to the growth of modern industry and technology as well as the influence of the western world in their work.  I have only posted a few but you can see more poster designs here.

Jeremy Kool is the 3D artist and graphic designer behind "The Paper Fox Project". His aim is to create a children's picture book for the iPad and Android tablets to be release in 2012. The art style used in this book is quite unique and is created digitally to make it look like paper-craft and origami. I think this is a neat  project. If you want to help fund his project or find out more info you can check it out on Pozible or on his blog.

Fab Ciraolo is an illustrator from Chile, who took things back a little old school.  You remember a lot of the 80's cartoons like Captain Planet, Thundercats, Rainbow Brite, and etc. Well, Fab gave them a little flash with some old school outfits and an outer space background look.  If you get a chance check out some of his other work on his blog.