Vancouver, Canada

* “An underdog to North American Culture and overshadowed by Britain, we have been searching for our own National Identity. Steeped in history, diversity, and compassion it’s time we celebrated on home turf.”

These are from a collection of student-designed type posters celebrating things Canadian… 

Selkirk, Manitoba

Nearly a year ago I chanced across this Nora Ephron “quotable” on Facebook. Lauraine Twilley, a librarian friend, mentioned she would love to have a poster of it… well, here you go, Rainey.

To download a small (106 KB PDF) with both black and white poster versions suitable for printing, click here.

Warsaw, Poland

Michal Krasnopolski’s concept was “to create a very modernist, minimalist poster series for movie enthusiasts. The idea is based on a very simple grid: a circle and two diagonals inscribed in a square. It surprised me how many posters I could create based on this very simple approach; the possibilities are theoretically unlimited…”

 (Thanks to Nancy Wu in Vancouver for the link).

(click on image above for link to larger JPG — thanks Adrian)

(source : Jee Eun Lee) 

Montreal, Canada

27 April 2013 is Icograda’s 50th birthday, World Communication Design Day. To mark this auspicious occasion and global celebration, I’ve composed a few graphic iterations and collages. Icograda invites contributions on a Facebook page set up for international “graphic sharing” here.

The Icograda 50th Anniversary logo was designed by Omar Vulpinari and a creative team at Fabrica.

Charlotte, NC, USA

A typographic study, combining some of Matt Stevens’ favorite typefaces with his love of old automotive manuals and exploded diagrams… more here.

New York, USA

swissted is an ongoing project by graphic designer Mike Joyce… combining his love of punk rock and Swiss modernism, two movements that have (almost) nothing to do with one another. Mike has redesigned vintage punk, hardcore, new wave, and indie rock show flyers into international typographic style posters — each design is set in lowercase Berthold Akzidenz-Grotesk Medium (not Helvetica).

Thanks to friend Keith Leinweber for the link…

London, UK

Complex philosophical concepts are explained by means of basic shapes and concise definitions in these clever, minimalist, and colourful Philographics by Catalonian-born designer Genís Carreras.