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/




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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.



































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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.






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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







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I stumble upon the works of Patrik Svensson a.k.a (Prince Hat) and his series of minimalistic movie typography posters. In this series he tries to visualize the movie by using only the first letter(s) from the title, for example the i from "The Insider" as the shape of a cigarette, or the two k's from "The Karate Kid" as two fighting karate kids.

This series provides space which is great because sometimes less is more in the design world. People are sometimes just looking for something to fill that space, but if you take out all that noise. You can then direct your vision on something that's actually worth focusing on.

I highly recommend checking out more of Patrik work or check out his blog. If you want to know more about the thought process and see more of this series check it out on Designmodo

Design Motion is what Naomie Ross does. She created a video called Letterpress that caught my attention. The style in which she presented the short was instructional. It kinda took me back to the time I use to work on printing presses back in the day. The feel to this video was also just simple, but engaging and beautiful as well as interesting. Some may see letter pressing as a dying race but I think that its still got a long way to go before it goes extinct.

If you want to check out more of her work then check out her website.

Scrabble is an old classic loved by many but something was lacking and that was a beautiful design. Andrew Clifford Capener decided to change that with his A-1 Scrabble Designer Edition. The idea was to excite people about typography by giving them the ability to choose what font their scrabble set would come in. The set would be available in the font of your choice or with an assorted font pack. Additional font packs (including your favorite font) could be ordered through Scrabble’s website. The scrabble board and interior box are made out of solid walnut, and the exterior box is made from birch. Each of the 6 board pieces is magnetized to fit together perfectly and each piece slides nicely into its respective slot in the box and is secured by interior magnets as well. The interior of the exterior box as well as the bottoms of the 6 board pieces are lined with cork, to protect them while in use.”






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