The effect of pop culture & advertising on our everyday lives.

You know when something goes wrong, and you think to yourself – in a perfect world….

well artist Catrin Dulay illustrates just that. In A Perfect World..

( via – This Blog Rules )

ARTCRANK Denver will open on Saturday, September 4 at the Lisa Koslowski Gallery in Denver’s River North Arts District. The show will feature the work of 56 local artists and run through Saturday, September 11. It will also serve as a kick-off to the Denver edition of the Bicycle Film Festival, which is scheduled for September 9-11. We’re joining forces with the fine folks at B-cycle to declare this Unofficial Bike Week in Denver — stay tuned for more events and announcements on that.

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Artists Include -

Aaron Ray • Alan Peters • Allyson Byerly • Andrew Carr • Andrew Hoffman • Andrew Price • Anthony Cozzi • Aron Dubois • Austin Weyer • Blue Beanie • Brian Oliva • Broox Pulford • Bryan Cavanagh • ChangeTheThought • Chase Courington • Chris Huth • Chris Nguyen • Cole Sletten • Cristian Whitney • Cypher13 • David Schell • Drew Dahlman • Eddie Breidenbach • Firelily • gneural • Jake Theno • James Gardiner • Jared Berger • Jason Bowers • Jason Wedekind • Jeremy Graston • Jeremy Pruit • Jerimy Brown • John Fellows • Josh Shively • Joshua Wills • Kyle Warfield • Manu Budant • Markham Maes • Matt Scobey • Matter • Miles Fenn • Oscar Woodruff • Paula Cuevas • Rafa Jenn • Rob Mack • Sandra Fettingis • Scot Lefavor • Sean Herman • Sean Klassen • Shane Harris • Stephen Beneski • Stuart Alden • Tod Kapke • Tom Goodrich & Wife • Vanessa Wilde

Thanks to the wonderful Behance network I have been coming across some truly awesome works lately. This poster series by Minga is awesome – entitled “The Music Series”

So I have been a busy bee in the past few weeks – and posting has taken a hit for a bit… BUT I am back – and I wanted to share with you all something that I was doing in my absence!

If you follow my personal Twitter – I start everyday with the phrase “Hello [insert day]” just to give the day some positivity cause you never know what a day is going to bring!

In doing this I started to wonder – what are the meanings of days… And then I started to look stuff up and what I found was quite interesting – so what did I do? I did what any designer would do… make some typographic posters! So here they are for your enjoyment!

To see the full versions click!

One of the most famous motivational posters out there – the “Keep Calm and Carry On” was made on the eve of WWII by the English to distribute in the event of a nation catastrophe. The poster featured the Crown of King George VI set against a bold red and actually was part of a collection of 3 other messages. “Freedom is in Peril”, “Your Courage, Your Cheerfulness, Your Resolution Will Bring Us Victory”, and “Keep Calm and Carry On”.

There were two-and-a-half million copies made of “Keep Calm and Carry On” made but they were never distributed. They instead were put into storage throughout the war, and never saw the light of day until 2000 when a copy was discovered by Stuart Manley, a bookseller from Northumberland.

He showed it to his wife and they liked it, so they framed it and put it up in their shop.

“I didn’t know anything about it but I showed it to my wife. We both liked it so we decided to frame it and put it in the shop,” explains Mr Manley.

“Lots of people saw it and wanted to buy it. We refused all offers but eventually we decided we should get copies made for sale.”

Sales were steady but nothing amazing – until 2005 when it was featured in as a Christmas gift idea in a national newspaper, and from there the rest is history!

Following the end of WWII, most of the posters are believed to have been pulped, never having seen the light of day. Only two original copies are known to have survived.

Read the Entire Article HERE

(via – BBC )

Came across these sharp typography designs the other day.  Its amazing what you can do with 26 letters and imagination.

(via – Xemanhdep )

Found this fantastic collection on Flickr. The posters done by Rétrofuturs are awesome! I like the vintage style, and the simple taglines. See and collect the full collection here!

Found this great site full of funny posters and typographic love!

“Dropping inspirational & thought-arousing messages, jokes, anecdotes, and visual mischief in the form of poster design and typographical endeavor.”

check out the site www.ordinarycriminals.tumblr.com

The new James Cameron film Avatar is set to come out December 18th 2009, and from what I’ve seen so far it looks to be another epic. It better be considering the budget ended up somewhere around $500,000,000!!

Found these are a great new site! Hand Cooked Posters great site with Limited Edition hand made posters. Very cool stuff!