Have you ever wondered what you would do if the internet went down? I know I would probably do more than half of the suggested approaches suggested in the poster below. So if you're ever in a pickle with what to do when your internet goes down. Look no further than this poster created by Pleated Jeans. Although, I think they could have added "surf the internet on your phone", but that would have made all the suggestions useless.


































Source: Pleated Jeans

The dance crazy posters below were created by Amy Rodchester for the Newcastle Festival of Dance. I was quite intrigued with Amy's choice of visualization with her design. She describes her ideas and elements on her site and this is what she had to say:

The design of the posters visualise any pair of feet in any pair of shoes being able to dance and aims to encourage people to step out of their comfort zone and try something new. The 3D element of the posters engages and intrigues viewers. Each poster targets a different generation, inspiring children to dance, encouraging youths to be creative, motivating adults to continue exercise and reminding the elderly of their time in the old dance halls.

 If you want to check out more of Amy's work you can do so here.

Genis Carreras is the creator behind this stimulating series of Philographics posters. In this series, Genis is trying to explain the complex philosophical theories through basic shapes and a paragraph of text. The simplicity in these poster gives me a direct understanding of the concept while still proving to be very elegant. Check out more of Genis' site and see what you find.



Source: GrainEdit

Well this is interesting. Tamiya, a company who specializes in plastic and resin kits for modellers, recently released a set of print advertisements featuring conspiracies around Elvis Presley, Roswell, the Moon Landing, JFK's assassination and Marilyn Monroe's suicide. Tamiya Put It Together kits were setup to force users to see each individual conspiracy, with the step-by-step process of shedding a light on the falsehood or truth of each. I can't say that I'm a modeller enthusiast but I think the prints are pretty sweet.







Source: The Inspiration Room

I've stumbled upon SR692 and his large collection of retro Swissair poster designs today. I'm not going to lie but their are some seriously good designs up in this collection. Most of these poster designs came from the 30's to the 80's, which are archived on the site.

What I like about this collection is the simplicity of each design. They utilize the generic airplane icon, a headline and the Swissair logo making for a minimally designed style. You can't go wrong with that. If you want to know more on the Swiss Airlines logo. I know that Wanken did a whole post on Swissair: Behind the Logos interesting read. You can find it on ISO50.

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

The Flow looks at the supervening layers of reality that we can observe, from quarks to nucleons to atoms and beyond. The deeper we go into the foundations of reality the more it loses its form, eventually becoming a pure mathematical conception. Layer upon layer the flow builds new codes that create new codes, each version computing a new, more complex state based on the previous one. This short 20 second video by MRK is not based on actual scientific data, but are visual representations of scientific theory. It gives you a look into a mathematical concept of what these layers may look like. If you want to read more about this project, they have a in-depth breakdown on Behance.

If you found this video interesting, then you might be interested in these posters that were designed for this project as well. You can purchase these prints or others on MRK's inPrint store.

I was enjoying the color palettes and the details this morning in these poster designs by Andy Rohr. These future retro posters were part of a fictitious airline that takes you to Mars called MarsUnited. These posters reminds me of some old school 60's scifi take on how the future will be and where we can go. Andy did a wonderful job on taking the vintage to a retro future. The MarsUnited series posters are available to purchase on his shop. Plus, don't forget to check out some of his other works as well.

Kristian Jones series Lost in Youth is quiet interesting. His take on these is exploring the modern youth culture and the imagination of the youth. This series has that minimal feel to them but also has an impact of understanding the youth of having a blob friend or spilling your ice cream.

If you want to check out more of Kristian Jones work then click here

I think I found the jackpot of astounding poster designs. Marius Rossendaal a graphic designer from the Netherlands has been making some amazing typographic poster. He basically has been designing a new poster every day or most days. His detail and color choices and the layers that he places on his designs are just eye catching. I immediately found his work to be inspiring. Below is a small selection of his work, however, I highly and I mean highly think you should check out more of his work.

Digging these poster designs this morning. Pop Chart Lab is behind these awesome poster. I mean the Visual Compendium of Notable Haircuts in Popular Music is just hilarious but at the same time informative and well designed. If you get a chance check out more of there work or follow them on twitter @popchartlab.

Stéphane Massa-Bidal (AKA Rétrofuturs (Hulk4598)) has created a set of posters depicting various popular web services as though they were vintage paperback covers. These are beautiful and they have a look like they had been sitting in someone's attic for like 40 years. Although 40 years ago none of these services actually existed. I'm just glad I got my web therapy today.

Also a couple months ago I did a post about Rétrofuturs and his "Life is Circle" series as well. If you want to check out that post click here

I highly recommend checking out more works by Stéphane and if you want follow him on Twitter.