Poster Monday: Book

Poster Monday: Book

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Poster Monday: Book

Today’s Poster Monday spot goes to Alfredo Parada Larrosa from La Rioja in Argentina for his poster “Book” He is a visual designer and have been working on it since 2003, besides being a designer Alfredo is a University professor and art director at Conceptual Estudio.

The poster “Book” wants to communicate that reading opens doors, opens paths and feeds the imagination. The visual metaphor in the poster has the ability to ask the observer to contribute their own meaning. In a world full of digital visual images, proposing the return to the book is an act of rebellion.
If you would like to follow Alfredo and his work visit his instagram acount. And as you already may know, stay around, there is a second Poster Monday spot coming your way. If you would like to submit a poster to be featured on Poster Mondays find all the info you need to participate in our submissions page.

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Poster Monday: Save the Artic

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Poster Monday: Save the Artic

The second Poster Monday spot of May goes to Olivier Ploux for the poster “Save the Artic”. Olivier was born in 1984 in Paris but lived most of his life in the French Alps in the little city of Annecy. In 2008, its a graduate from graphic design studies in Intuit-Lab school in Paris and study a year in Ecuador in Guayaquil in 2006. It’s where Olivier started the work that he now call “Des Maux en images” which could be translated as “Words into pictures”. Olivier work in an agency in Paris and kept going this illustration work as a hobby and finally moved back to Annecy where I work since 2012 as a graphic designer and illustrator where continue to illustrate the word and the daily news with the aim of being obvious, of being as clear as can be a great poster. Actually participate to poster contests and also illustrate in the daily newspapers LeTemps in Switzerland.

This poster was made after a call from Greenpeace to realize a poster on the theme: Save the Arctic. The poster is trying to alert on the melt of Arctic and the consequences like the extinction or the polar bear and also a tribute to the great french sculptor François Pompon who created the famous Pompon Bear which can be seen in the Orsay Museum in Paris. A poster has to create an instant and understandable message. “I hope this poster can contribute to open eyes on the melt of Arctic and what will happen because of it. During my studies, I have been amazed by the powerfulness of different poster designers’s work like Savignac, Cieslewicz, Walenta, Batory, etc. and discovered through workshops this exercice of creation. After that, it was done, i kept going creating and participating to contest and paste my work in the street… Design is everywhere but it shall not only be reduce to a merchantile purpose. It can help to talk, to sensitize to alert, to contest, to educate. That’s the beauty of it. Design life !” tell us Olivier.

If you would like to know more Olivier Ploux visit his personal instagram and web page. If you would like to submit a poster to be featured on Poster Mondays find all the info you need to participate in our submissions page.

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Poster Monday: Visiting Lecturer, Katharine Untch

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Poster Monday: Visiting Lecturer, Katharine Untch

For this Poster Monday spot we featuring the poster of Feixue Mei from United States. She is an interdisciplinary artist and an assistant professor at Northwest Missouri State University. Her creative practice and research have been recognized by PCA/ ACA Conferences, Transformative Works and Cultures, Printed Matter Art Book Fairs, Singapore Art Book Fair, Art and Education, International Design Award (IDA), Graphis, and Creative Quarterly. She earned an MFA in Design with a concentration in visual communications from Virginia Commonwealth University, a BFA in Graphic Design from Colorado State University, and a BFA in Visual Communications from Central China Normal University.

This poster was designed for a public lecture by Katharine Untch, a principal conservator and visiting lecturer. It was commissioned by the Department of Fine and Performing Arts at Northwest Missouri State University. This event was supported by Missouri Arts Council.
Fascinated by mass media and internet culture Feixue work explores diverse media such as publications, videos, performances, illustrations, comics, and installations, and examines how they may be used to address such contexts as globalization, cultural manipulation, language adaptation, intimate relation, as well as fluid identity.

If you take a look at her site, you will find a very interesting body of work.
Remember to submit your posters to be featured in our coming editions of Poster Monday.

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Poster Monday: Logic and Prejudice

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Poster Monday: Logic and Prejudice

Today´s Poster Monday spot goes to Aggeliki Athanasiadi and her poster “Logic and Prejudice”. She has been working as a visual communication designer since 1999. Aggeliki studied graphic design [BA] at AKTO [Athens, Greece], in collaboration with Middlesex University of London and obtained a Master of Arts & Design degree on Branding on International Conference Organizing. She is the founder and Creative Director of Graphic Stories Cyprus, the Annual Conference on Graphic Design and Visual Communication in Cyprus, aiming at the transmission of knowledge and specialized technical training, as well as exploring the modern trends in graphic design,

The poster “Logic and Prejudice” draws its theme from the myth of the Minotaur, who lived locked in the labyrinth and whom Theseus eventually managed to kill. The illustration shows the confrontation between Theseus and the Minotaur as part of a mural or ceramic. The broken parts of the composition refer to the terrible intensity of the battle between the two. This myth symbolizes the victory of the rational being who wants to determine his destiny, overcome superstitions, overcome difficulties and live free. It is the victory of the new world over the old, of logic over prejudice, of light over darkness. She believes in the effectiveness of teamwork and personal and professional development through continuing education.

If you would like to follow Aggeliki and her work visit her personal behance and Grapich Stories Cyprus site and remember to submit your poster for the next edition of Poster Monday. Find all the info you need in our submissions page, and facebook.

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Poster Monday: Grammatical Nonsense

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Poster Monday: Grammatical Nonsense

Yixue Li (aka Ivy) is in our Poster Monday spot of the day with the poster “Grammatical Nonsense” She is a graphic and motion designer from China and based in New York, currently teaching at Parsons. Her design practice and research revolve around languages, linguistics, (mis)translations, and the gap between production and consumption. She holds an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University, and a BFA from University of Southern California. Yixue has won awards or presented her works at organizations such as AIGA NY, TDC, RGD, Communication Arts, Graphis, New York Art Book Fair, and Tasmeem Doha Biennial Art and Design Conference.

“Colorless green ideas sleep furiously” is a sentence composed by American linguist Noam Chomsky in his 1957 book, Syntactic Structures, as an example of a sentence that is grammatically correct, but semantically nonsensical. This poster aims to convey a linguistic concept in a visual form, and to establish the relationship between verbal and visual languages. It reminds us to be cautious with things whose form overpowers its meaning.

If you would like to know more about Yixue Li visit her web page. Stay around until we unveil the next spot Poster Monday spot. If you would like to submit a poster to be featured on Poster Mondays find all the info you need to participate in our submissions page.

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Poster Monday: American Way Of Life

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Poster Monday: American Way Of Life

The third Poster Monday spot belongs to Mauricio Mutralla from Mexico for his poster entitled “American Way Of Life”. He studied graphic design at the Gestalt School of Design, and is graduated as a graduate in plastic arts for the Faculty of Plastic Arts of the Universidad Veracruzana, he has a postgraduate degree in marketing focused on the cultural context. Mauricio has been a university professor in the careers of graphic design, marketing and advertising, currently an independent designer and is a professor at the faculty of arts visual arts of the Universidad Veracruzana for the careers of design of visual communication and visual arts. He is founder and coordinator of “Collective Autopsy-Posters”, a cultural initiative under the thematic axis of “Day of the Dead” (tradition of Mexico and some Latin American countries). His poster work has been selected, awarded, and exhibited in Mexico, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Russia, Iran, China, the Netherlands, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain, Peru, South Korea, and Ecuador.

About the poster “American way of life” Mauricio tells us “The idea of well-being and social development have been the constant promise that has permeated the policies of emerging peoples for several decades, reminiscent of the” other American way of life ” , (putative brother of the “American dream”) become a nightmare with currently standardized edges, adapted to continue spreading the preaching, making use of collusion as a setting and dignity as a bargaining chip. The degree of satisfaction is proportional to the disguise of the voracious consumerism, raise crows and have your eyes gouged out, kill to live, live to sell to the highest bidder, everything has a price, it is the law of supply and demand. When I say America, I mean the continent “.

If you would like to learn more about Mauricio visit his personal facebook and the Collective Autopsy project page and remember to submit your poster for the next edition of Poster Monday. Find all the info you need in our submissions page, and facebook.

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Lucerne turned into a Graphic Design Exhibition

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Lucerne turned into a Graphic Design Exhibition

The Pandemic has hit everyone hard in different ways, but it has also sparked wonderful bursts of creative solidarity. Based in Lucerne, Switzerland the members of Studio Feixen, decided to cheers up its community with with an advertising campaign created solely to bring color and joy.

Taking advantage of the empty streets they created a total of 17 different poster pillars across the city where they displayed brand new, bold poster works. We love this colorful idea and think it is a great way to bring joy during difficult times. What are you thoughts on this project?

Via Creative Boom

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Hugmun’s Acid Trip: poster series

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Hugmun’s Acid Trip: poster series

Oslo design studio Hugmun created a wonderful series of acid trip posters to act as the program of events for the 25-year-old arthouse Norwegian cinema for Cinemateket Trondheim.

Each artwork features one month and takes inspiration from all the planned films scheduled for that period. The posters were designed for print, as well as online and cinema-screen use, where the illustrations are animated.

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The Poster: A visual history

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The Poster: A visual history

The Poster, a visual history is a book edited by Gill Saunders and Margaret Timmers that brings together over 300 examples of poster design and the various ways the medium has been used to throughout time. Organized into seven thematic chapters, each poster is accompanied by a concise commentary that explains the work in terms of its design, printing, content, message, and the commercial, social or political impact it may have had.

Published in association with the V&A the book is available at thamesandhudson.com. A must-have visual resource for graphic designers and illustrators, and anyone with an interest in collecting posters and understanding more of our social history through art.

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Poster Monday: Miss Bella! The Super Powerfull Perfect Queen!

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Poster Monday: Miss Bella! The Super Powerfull Perfect Queen!

Today in Poster Monday we commemorate International Women’s Day (IWD) not with one poster but with two posters Miss Bella! The Super Powerfull Perfect Queen! and Lockdown by Kathiana Cardona Reyna from Caracas, Venezuela. She a visual artist, graphic designer, and photographer, studied Graphic Design and Plastic Arts in Montreal Canada. Kathiana have held various workshops of plastic expression, drawing and photography. She was a professor of graphic design and editorial process at the School of Social Communication of the Santa María University in Caracas Venezuela. Freelance since 1990 has worked for important international and art-related companies, has carried out various curatorships, organized different types of events, designs social posters, and his work has been selected in different national and international competitions and for different publications, in addition to participating as a juror in excellent poster competitions and lectured on photography and design on various occasions.
Freedom is in your mind, peace
in your heart and love in the air.
!Happy Women’s Day!

We can be free wherever we are, being locked up, being in prison or wherever we are, because our mind and our thoughts have no limits, we ourselves set our limits of freedom. Being free we achieve peace and keep it in our hearts.

Miss Bella! The Super Powerfull Perfect Queen!
Brave, Intelligent, Fighter, Empowered, Worker, Determined, Entrepreneur.

“My concept is clear, stereotypical beauty is disappearing, now we are looking at another type of beauty, the most important is that of knowledge and preparation, the fighting spirit and achieving all the goals that we set ourselves”. Kathiana Cardona Reyna

If you would like to know more about Kathiana and her work you can follow in instagram. Remember that all submissions are considered each week. If you would like to submit a poster to be featured on Poster Mondays find all the info you need in our submissions page, facebook.

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