I'm sure a lot of you out there have been enjoying the Olympic's but I have got to say that I'm very disappointed in the branding and graphic design aspect of this years Olympics.  So I have found some alternative poster designs for the London 2012 Olympic Games.  Hope you enjoy.



Source: Designboom

Dash Coleman is the designer behind the Pacman Ghost.  Their are a total of 48 ghost pacman's in this poster, can you guess how many you actually know? Below is a list of all the characters just in case you need to cheat or get stumped.  Don't forget to check out more of Dash Coleman's designs on Flickr

Pacman Ghosts

Ghost (MW2)
Deadpool
Link
John Marston
Carmine (Gears of War)
Alex (A Clockwork Orange)
Creeper (Minecraft)
Super Meat Boy
Sonic
Snake
Superman
Batman
Reddit alien
Kirby
Kevin Flynn
Clu
Mushroom (Mario)
Boo (Mario)
Waldo
Metroid
Samus
Kratos
Vincent Vega (Pulp Fiction)
Jules Winnfield (Pulp Fiction)
Commander Shepard
Wrex
Kang
Kodos
Roger the Alien (American Dad)
Henchman 21 (Venture Bros)
Master Chief
Grunt (Halo)
Brotherhood Soldier (Fallout)
NCR Soldier (Fallout)
Metool (Megaman)
Mega Man
Iron Man
Leonard (Ugly Americans)
Darth Vader
Stormtrooper
Dr. Manhattan
Rorschach
Bender
Zoidberg
Zombie
Combine Soldier (Half-Life)
Headcrab (Half-Life)
Tobias Funke

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.



Source: Toxel

A friend of mine on Facebook shot this artist over to me and I couldn't help but to do a post about it. Tom Whalen is the creator of these contemporary posters. He has given some of the classic cartoons a new modern feel in this posters series. Even though, Tom has been working on this series for over a year they're currently selling like hot cakes by the Austin-based movie poster publisher Mondo. They can't keep this series in stock. Their basically being sold as soon as they are being made available.  Check out more of  Tom's work.



Source: Manmadediy

Framework is a Moxy Creative presentation of poster designs of eyewear made famous by celebrities and it was brought to you by framegeek.com. In this collection they have glasses from Yves Saint Laurent who had a deeper understanding of aesthetic. He understood fashion and like he said "Fashions fade, style is eternal. I'm also glad to see that Steve Urkel's style made it in this collection, along with some others who had creative styles of glasses. You can purchase your framework prints here

Scottish illustrator Matt Cowen uses basic math equations to explain how certain pop culture icons came to be. The use of simple illustrations gives us a look at the superhero or pop culture character in their simplest form. The use of different symbols and items gives us a clever way of looking at the characters origins. Some of them had me cracking up over here while writing this. I didn't post them all so if you want to see more check out his Deviant Art page.