Say it with an illustration

Say it with a quote or illustrate one? Malaysia-based illustrator Tang Yau Hoong pairs each of his illustrations with a famous quote. As simple as that, as beautiful as these posters…

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Who sang what?

Sometimes you discover online something that combines two things you love and then you realize that all that procrastination was actually worth it. So for today’s pleasure combo I present to you one three Beatles infographs, charting the instrumentation of all of their songs, in their three phases.

I consider the haircut chart a bonus:

By Pop Chart Lab

See also:

• A girl with colitis goes by…
• The Beatles, more popular than Jesus?
  
• The Beatles in the year 3126
  

Minimal science

When minimalism expresses the essence of meaning, design comes to honor the pioneering work of some of the world’s most famous scientists. From Darwin’s theory of evolution to Pythagoras’ theorem and Archimedes’ principle, Mumbai-based graphic designer Kapil Bhagat creates clever typographic posters of scientists’ names based on each genius’s breakthrough discovery.

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The unexamined life is not worth living

Quotes by some of the most influential philosophers, illustrated by Max Temkin:

via so bad so good

Minimal haircut posters

Can you recognise a person from his haircut? Well yes, if we are talking about the most recognizable haircuts on the world, virtual or not.

Check out the Copyrighted Famous Hairs minimal poster series by Portuguese graphic designer Patricia Povoa.

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Minimalist video game covers

The tendency in video game graphics is to become as complex and realistic as possible. And I’m all for it. 3D environments, incredible textures, realistic human movement is all great in my book. But when it comes to the game covers, oh dear, do I hate the graphics. You see what works in a game environment is plain ugly printed in 2D. This is why I loved these minimalist recreations of iconic video game covers from society6.

                    

See also:

• Videogaming hurts
• A history of videogames
• Minimal tales

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Never le’ go…

Get it?

From the witty Heng Swee Lim and her Etsy shop, ILOVEDOODLE.

via buymodernbaby

See also:

• Etsy finds: snap it in an instance
• Escher in LEGOland
• See fig. 2

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In March read the books you’ve always meant to read

Always desirable, even if it comes from a vintage poster. From Works Progress Administration project of President Roosevelt’s effort to elevate the nation from the grip of The Great Depression in 1935.

Make this promise to yourself this March.

via Brainpickings

See also:

• Book club for design nerds
• On the road all around the world
• James Joyce Pornography

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First quiz of the year

Our 2011 ended with a quiz: our last post of 2011 was Stephen Wildish ‘s 1980′s Film Alphabet, a graphic quiz testing our knowledge on pop-culture movies from the 80′s. Today’s post is the first quiz of the year and we decide to go with Stephen Wildish ‘s 1990′s Film Alphabet this time.

You know the procedure: Each letter and a movie title.

See also:

• Last quiz of the year
• See the object, guess the movie
• Clockbusters: the movie quiz

Last quiz of the year

Last quiz of the year: Back to the eighties to test our knowledge and memory. Designer Stephen Wildish created the 1980′s Film Alphabet,  a great graphic that challenges our pop culture movie knowledge from the eighties.

Each letter and a movie. Can you recognise them?

See also:

• Clockbusters: the movie quiz
• See the object, guess the movie
• Typo posters
• Minimal design, maximal inspiration

Strictly for philotypes

All these -isms that gave meaning to complex philosophical concepts and formed our common  understanding: relativism, absolutism, hedonism, humanism, passivism, realism, authoritarianism, solipsism, reductionism, determinism, deism and so many others, but we never quite managed to remember them all.

Designer Genis Carreras helps us understand and visualise all these philosophical ideologies through his series of  minimalistic posters, entitled Philographics, with just the use of simple geometric shapes.

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Minimal landmarks

How can we disguise some of the city’s most famous buildings and still recognise them?  Through an minimalistic approach, graphic studio Design By House managed to reveal famous landmarks under multiple layers of colors and different shapes.

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All must be shared to win the war

Twitter has followers, Facebook has causes and Google+ is the new cult.

Propaganda posters by Aaron Wood.

Wouldn’t life be perfect if…

WTF?

Don’t tell me that you have never reach the point when the only thing you could say was WTF? Argentina based design studio Minga created these minimalist posters for those moments in life.

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Ideas for a new city

Ideas for a more citizen-friendly city. It could be New York or any other city in the world.

50 ideas for the New City is a project of the Architectural League of New York to imagine the future city and explore the ideas that will shape it.

Posters designed by the Civic Center. 

via Urban Omnibus

See also:

• Invisible cities
• The strings of NYC subway
• Distorted cities
• Filling up the gaps
• A little urban living

I shall not live in vain

Poetry poster created by H-​​57 and First Floor Under.

via Bloodyloud

See also:

• In literature / hidden haikus I have found / unexpectedly
• In their own words
• The Man in the Black Coat
• Poetry after the beep
• Lolita butterflies

Etsy finds: Claudia Varosio’s movie posters

This shop is a true find for the cinephiles. Claudia Varosio creates custom posters for some of cinema’s most iconic movies.

Minimal, wonderfully designed and coloured, these posters vary from the conceptual to the whimsical.

Also of note are Claudia’s series of cut-out paper dolls: the dude, Margot Tenenbaum, David Bowie and other surprising personalities.

Green typography

Anna Garfoth experiments with eco-graffiti and green typography. And I mean actually green: messages written with moss on walls.

She also uses leafs, garbage and tape on fences’ grids to spell her messages.

And my personal favorite, the edible poster made out of cookies.

See also:

• 10 + 1 ways to visualize lyrics
• You type, they design
• A brief history of title design

The human factory

We often consider our self as part of a mechanical work. That times has changed and we are nothing but a machine which work all the time to fulfill its ever emerging needs. But the idea of the human being as a machine was first conceived or at least illustrated by German physician, artist and writer Fritz Kahn in 1926. Fritz Kahn created Der Mensch als Industriepalast (Man as Industrial Palace), a poster of the human body, which depicts the body’s complex functions, such as respiration, circulation, digestion as parts of a wider mechanical process. He ‘compartmentalized’ the body, creating different rooms, where workers carefully carried out the different works of our body.

Henning Lenderer, a German visual communication and animation student, has created an amazing and high detailed animation of Kahn’s poster, managing to eloquently explain the separate functions of a body, in the following video and an interactive installation for the audience to explore the different cycles of this human machinery.

via Visual News

See also:

• A tale of twins (or how to explain relativity theory)
• On faces
• The meme meme
• Make up your mind about  your mind