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Book Suggestion: War Posters - Weapons of Mass Communication

abduzeedo — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 06:21:23 +0000

The book suggestion of this week is for those out that love posters, I believe everyone. The book is calledWar Posters: Weapons of Mass Communication and as the name says it's all about war posters. It is divided by wars and you can get tons of inspiration from it.

This essential publication features a wide selection of the most eye-catching and iconic examples from the internationally renowned poster collection at the Imperial War Museum in London.

"A lush catalog… exquisitely conceived and rendered."—The New York Times

More than 300 superb full-color illustrations of hard-hitting propaganda and groundbreaking graphic art encompass unforgettable images such as Alfred Leete’s “Your Country Needs You” as well as documentary photographs and additional material drawn from the world of advertising.

Through these posters, James Aulich, an international expert on posters and graphic design, examines the social, political, ethnic, and cultural aspirations of America, Britain, Northern Ireland, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Russia, Austria, Hungary, and the Czech Republic. Covering topics as diverse as advertising in World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution, the Spanish Civil War, Germany and Occupied Europe in World War II, anti-nuclear campaigns, and Vietnam, the book is a comprehensive and invaluable resource for anyone interested in graphic design or modern history. 300+ illustrations

Buy it now

About the author

Abduzeedo is a blog about design. There are all sorts of articles for those who want to look for inspiration. Also you will find very useful tutorials for the most used applications out there, with a special selection of Photoshop Tutorials and Illustrator Tutorials. You can get in follow us via Twitter at @abduzeedo

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Abduzeedo Holiday Giveaway

AoiroStudio — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 18:01:26 +0000

There's been a lot of giveaways lately on Abduzeedo but it's the magic of the Holidays! It's a great opportunity for us to share our love to you guys especially after 5 years! Just a little reminder to be safe during the Holidays and stay abducted by design! Now let's see what Santa has granted us to give you guys!

Giveaway

We have 2 Abduzeedo Books, 2 T-Shirts exclusively from the Montreal Meets 2 Store, 5 Abduzeedo Fifth Anniversary Posters and 5 licences of 50$ from DepositPhotos.

We would like to thank our sponsors and supporters for these prizes including François Hoang from the Montreal Meets, Shawn over Depositphotos and Kanella for the free downloadable wrapping paper. At last a huge THANK YOU to Alex Beltechi who designed this years Abduzeedo anniversary poster.

To participate is very simple, just leave a comment in the comment box below with a valid email (very important) so we can contact you.

We'll pick in total 14 winners and the contest will end on December 30th, 2011. Best of luck to you all!

2 Abduzeedo Books

Abduzeedo Book

2 MMTWO T-Shirts

MMTWO T-Shirt

About Montreal Meets 2 / MMTWO

We're back for 2012 with another Montreal Meets! With another location, more speakers and as you can see, the event is now during two days! Don't miss this great opportunity to the visionaries of our creative world. It will take place on April 7th and 8th in Montreal, Qc of Canada. For 2012, we'll be receiving as speakers: Fabio Sasso (Abduzeedo), James White (Signalnoise), Radim Malinic (Brand Nu), Shelby White (Wanken) and Scott Hansen (ISO50 / Tycho)

Get also a 10% OFF in the MMTWO store by using the code "ABDZROCKS" on Store.MontrealMeets.ca.

Find out more on Montreal Meets at MontrealMeets.ca and buy your tickets online at mmtwo.eventbrite.com.

5 Abduzeedo Fifth Anniversary Posters

Poster designed by Alex Beltechi and to check out his amazing works at http://www.behance.net/alexbeltechi.

Abduzeedo 5th Anniversary Poster

5 licences of 50$ from Depositphotos (Worth 250.00$)

Depositphotos

About Depositphotos

Depositphotos is the fastest-growing stock photo agency in the world. Presently it offers over 5 million stock photographs and vector images sold under royalty-free licenses. The stock photo library is increased daily by thousands of images, carefully checked and selected by moderators.

The company is headquartered in Florida, USA, and has business offices in Germany, Great Britain and Russia. Check out their website for more premium royalty-free stock photos, illustrations and vector images at Depositphotos.

About Kanella and her Festive Wrapping Paper

Kanella.com

Kanella is a Greek graphic designer, more of a design addict, experienced in identities and print media, experimenting with illustrations, hybrids and objects and she put together a beautiful festive wrapping paper free to download. Print it out in two enormously loveable sizes for your small and tiny presents. Wrap up your presents for family and friends. Download her wrapping paper at Kanella.com

To Recap

A lot of prizes so don't forget to leave a comment in the comment box below with a valid email (very important) so we can contact you. From all the team of Abduzeedo, Happy Holidays to everyone of you and wish you all the best for 2012!

About the author

My name's François Hoang and my alias's Aoiro Studio. I am a self-taught freelance graphic designer from Montreal, Canada. I've been designing for the last 4 years and really have a huge passion for creative work that makes a difference in our world. If you wanna requests some posts; I can be found on Twitter or feel free to contact me.

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Jim LePage's Word Project Posters Giveaway - Winners

PauloGabriel — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:16:00 +0000

Alright! We've been doing many giveaways lately, but every time is something awesome, like today's special gifts for you. Jim LePage, the designer who's done many Bible poster designs is giving away some sweet posters! I would love to tell you more about it, but I'll just leave it to him.

In Jim's words

The Bible is a pretty unique book. It’s full of violence, beauty and things that seem plain offensive. Different people’s interpretations of the book have ended up in a lot of violence (Holy Wars), beauty (Mother Teresa) and offensiveness (hateful words towards certain groups of people). Although I know that the Bible incredibly unique, often times it seems very boring to read, especially for someone like me with no background in theology.

In January of 2010, after years of struggling to consistently read this unique book, I came up with a new strategy. I decided to combine Bible reading with something I was passionate about – design. That is how my “Word” project began. You can find out more about the origin of the project on my site.

From January 2010 to November 2011, I posted a new Word design every Friday, ending up with a total of 91 designs (some books ended up with more than one design) and have prints available of all of them. I also include some reflections on each book and design. My goal was to be as honest as possible throughout the project, being transparent about any doubts, anger or confusion that I felt. Some designs are violent, some are weird and some are plain offensive, but hey, so is the Bible. You can find out more about what I learned during the project in my post, An Idiot’s Guide to Reading the Bible.

2 John

2 Thessalonians

2 Kings

The good folks at Abduzeedo posted about Word a few months back and are now graciously hosting a print giveaway.

I’m giving away three 16x20 Word prints of any of my designs. To enter, just leave a comment below and include a valid email address. 1 comment per person, please. You may enter the contest until December 16th, next Friday. Winners will be chosen at random and announced on Tuesday, December 20th. Good luck!

Besides this giveaway, all proceeds of my print sales in December will be donated to help low-income and homeless families here in St. Paul, Minnesota. If you wanna help, read more.

Above are a few of my Word designs or you can see all 91 designs on my site.
– Jim

Jim’s web site: http://www.jimlepage.com
Jim on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/Jim_LePage
Jim on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/JimLePage
Jim’s Biblical design inspiration site: http://gettinbiblical.tumblr.com

Winners

Ok!!! And the time has come, and we're now going to announce the winners of these awesome posters! Jim randomly chose 3 lucky guys. And here they are:

Sxca10
renegadefire
Robertalexanderfielder

Jim will contact you guys soon, so keep an eye on your inboxes. We're glad everyone participated in this giveaway, and stay tuned for more, soon! Cheers. ;)

About the author

Hello, everyone! I'm Paulo Gabriel, designer from Porto Alegre, Brazil, born in 1984. I have worked as a webdesigner since 2006, but websites and blogs have been a hobby for me since 1999. Here in Abduzeedo, I try to bring only the hot stuff for you... and hope that all of you enjoy my posts! For more cool stuff, you may also follow me on Twitter.

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Retro Horror Movie Posters

AoiroStudio — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:54:02 +0000

It's Halloween! We all have our ways of celebrating this holiday, some of us will do some trick-or-treating, attending costume parties, playing pranks, telling scary stories or like me watch some old horror movies. This is a showcase of retro horror posters of famous and not-so famous movies from the mid 30s until the late 80s. They are mostly illustrated but in my opinion are the most successful of expressing the emotions and triggering your imagination of fear.

For more information on the movie posters, simply click on the image and you'll be redirected to IMDB Site (Internet Movie Database).

Michael Jackson's Thriller Video Clip

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Cool Digital Painting Posters & Covers

paul0v2 — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:30:16 +0000

This is a mix of posters and covers digitally painted by Ashley Claypool who is a digital illustrator for Lantern Press in Seattle, Washington. Her work is very playful and very well done with some great detail and nice use of typography. Check them out!

For more form Ashley visit her deviantart gallery chronoperates.deviantart.com/gallery/

About the author

Hi there! I'm Paulo Canabarro, 26 year old web designer - paulocanabarro.com I'm from Brazil currently living and working out of Providence RI, USA. I'm truly passionate about design of all kinds, finding and sharing inspiration here has become part of my life. If you like to know more about me or get in touch visit my website paulocanabarro.com Stock me at Twitter and Dribbble

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Clever Pictogram Music Posters

paul0v2 — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 13:28:34 +0000

Designed by Viktor Hertz, a freelance designer and photographer from Sweden. These pictogram music poster are very clever and well done, each poster representing a song that I'm sure you will familiarize with. Check them out and let us know which one is your favorite.

For more from Viktor visit behance.net/viktorhertz

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Super Nice Posters for Soccer Fans

PauloGabriel — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:21:55 +0000

As most Brazilians, I'm a big soccer fan, and I couldn't help but post this super nice posters I just found at Behance. These are some great examples of how simple design can be good and trendy.

These were made by Bosnian-Herzegovinian soccer fan and designer Zoran Luci?. He's got more great work of his at Behance, so don't forget to visit his portfolio! I hope you enjoy these as much as I did. And let's talk about these pieces, not about the correct name of the sport. Cheers! ;)

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Summer 2011 Movie Blockbusters in Lego Posters

AoiroStudio — Wed, 18 May 2011 18:05:47 +0000

Summer is here and when comes summer, it's always the time for the movie blockbusters. Here's a series of this summer's movie blockbusters in LEGO posters. It was created by Old Red Japoly.

For more information about Old Red Jalopy, you can visit Oldredjalopy.com , be a fan on Facebook or follow him on Twitter @OldRedJalopy .

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Formula 1 2011 Poster Series by PJ Tierney

AoiroStudio — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 04:11:06 +0000

In anticipation of the Formula 1 World Championship, one designer based from Ireland decided to startup his engines and create 19 posters in 19 days. It's representing the 19 races of the Formula 1 Series. Here's the full set of this amazing work from a big fan of the F1.

PJ Tierney, a freelance designer from Limerick, Ireland. For more information about PJ, check out his website PJTierney.Net , his Flickr Account . or follow him on Twitter @Pj_Tierney.

Australia

Malaysia

China

Turkey

Spain

Monaco

Canada

Europe

Great Britain

Germany

Hungary

Belgium

Italy

Singapore

Japan

Korea

India

Abu Dhabi

Brazil

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Horror Movie Posters: Originals versus Remakes

marcos333 — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 10:12:33 +0000

Since I was a kid I really love horror movies, there's something about this kind of movie that really catches my attention, maybe the fear component. Lately, I noticed that some of the most classic horror movies have received a remake version and I found that a comparison between the two versions was a good idea for a post.

Most of this original posters were made on a time before photoshop and other image editing softwares, some were illustrations and manual photomontages. In the other hand, the remakes were done recently, they have a lot of image editing and manipulation. In order to compare both, I posted first the original poster and after the remake poster, you should try to choose your favorite poster for each movie and, of course, don't forget to watch them too.

Dawn of The Dead

Day of The Dead

Friday The 13th

Funny Games

Halloween

The Hills have Eyes

A Nightmare on Elm Street

Piranha

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

My Bloody Valentine

About the author

My name is Marcos Torres, I'm Graphic Artist from Porto Alegre, Brasil. You can get to know more about me by acessing my Personal Website or by following me on Twitter: @marcos333. You can also see some of my last projects at my Flickr.

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Network Rebellion by Place

GisMullr — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 09:59:07 +0000

Browsing around Behance I bumped into a really cool series called @network rebellion, designed by Place, a design studio from Argentina. The whole idea really caught my attention and I have to admit that I agreed with all posters. The sense humor is classy and the messages are pretty honest... ;)

Sometimes we all get a little bit too excited with the "social network" frenzy we are in and we worry too much with followers, likes, etc. So I think that from time to time is good to check out what is really important... Let's use our time, creativity and knowledge towards productivity and cool stuff, like this series. :)

"Network Rebellion" is a series of typographic posters to critique our behavior and our human relationship with the real world, hided behind the social networks. We've received great comments for it! Check it out!

About the author

Someone with a bachelor degree in Foreign Trade that really likes technology, design, photography and creativity. A person ‘digging’ a new way as a ‘geek apprentice’, blogger 'wanna be' and a communication lover! Current location: Porto Alegre, RS – Brazil
Twitter user: gismullr

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Amazing Work by Justin VanGenderen - 3 Posters to Giveaway [UPDATED]

fabiano — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 10:25:19 +0000

Justin VanGenderen is an amazing designer from Chicago with a collection of posters that blow our eyes! And today we will not only showcase him, but also giving away 3 of his posters! Yeah, check this out and good luck guys!

I am currently a freelance designer living in Chicago IL. About a year ago I started my own design company, 2046 Design. While a lot of my work involves photo-manipulation for various design firms and clients I am always trying out new styles. Over the past year or so I have started to experiment a lot more with minimalism and poster design. Most of this work is influenced by older printing processes like letterpress and silk screen printing. - Justin VanGenderen

About the Giveaway

We're giving away 3 posters that Justin wants to give to our users. To participate, just drop us a comment or share this post on twitter, that is simple! Next week we will announce the winners.

The 3 posters to give away!

The Winners [UPDATED]

Derry
Fabricio Franco
Celwin Frenzen

Congratulations guys, we will contact you soon!

While you wait, take a look on other posters from Justin VanGenderen! Also check his website and Flickr.

About the author

I'm from Brazil, co-founder of Zee with Fabio. Nowadays I like to play with Fireworks, Photoshop and improve my skills in CSS. If you wanna request some posts, please feel free to contact me or follow on Twitter.

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WTF Series 2 by Minga

GisMullr — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 10:46:38 +0000

Two weeks ago we presented you the WTF Series, showing you some really creative artworks from Minga, a small creativity & design boutique based in Argentina. Their simple and beautiful posters about some cool WTF moments were really cool and got a lot of attention, so they decided to create the WTF Series 2, that you will be able to check out here.

A good dose of humor and a beautiful and simple design resulted in a really nice series. So here is the second round of WTF moments!! Enjoy. :)

WTF Series is about things that happen to us while living a normal life... when you clearly don't understand why those things happened! They're usually out of the ordinary things that occur to all of us but are sometimes hard to believe. It began as an in-house joke here in the studio so we decided to make it a "Design Piece".

We wanted to create some funny, where people can laugh about WTF situations, and we create a poster series about it.

Head to their website or Behance page to check out more about them and their work. ;)

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Inspiring Posters by Tomasz Opasinski

GisMullr — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:49:29 +0000

One of the great things about checking our readers emails and suggestions is that we get to see a lot of interesting stuff, and this is the case of Tomasz Opasinski. Tomasz sent us an email about some new non commercial posters he did and the artworks were really cool, so I decided to show it here for you guys. His film related posters are pretty stylish, they are simple yet very beautiful, totally worth checking out. ;)

Tomasz was born in 1975 in Poland and has a BA in Computer Graphics in Print and Advertising. He is currently consulting as Digital Artist / Creative Consultant at multiple, prestigious advertising agencies in Los Angeles, CA. I really liked the style, elegant humor and visual simplicity of his posters and I'm pretty sure you will also love it. Check out Tomasz website for further artworks!

Participant, finalist and jury member of many national and international competitions, e.g. The Hollywood Reporter Annual Key Art Awards (Hollywood, USA) or Golden Trailer Awards (New York, USA), Young Creatives Cannes Lions Contest (Warszawa, Poland). Awarded by International Association of Web Masters and Designers, winner of Guru Award in Photoshop Excellence at PhotoshopWorld Conference (San Diego, USA) by National Association of Photoshop Professionals.

Author of multiple professional articles regarding artistic and technical aspects of design. Teacher. Mentor. Collaborated on over 350 theatrical and gaming projects and campaigns.

Check out Tomasz website for further artworks!

Want to share your work or suggest something to us? Write to abduzeedo@gmail.com.

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Minimalist Star Wars Galaxy Posters

paul0v2 — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:48:58 +0000

I came across this awesome collection of minimalist poster designs from the Star Wars Galaxy and it really inspired me with the simplicity of the design and the complexity of the meaning. These posters were designed by Justin Van Genderen, a freelancer designer/illustrator from Chicago. Check it out!

Click here for more from Justin Van Genderen

A series of minimalist takes on planets and places of the original Star Wars Galaxy. Not my normal style but I really enjoyed making these.

Prints available at imagekind