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Airplane Safety Cards Animated: The Humorous Opening Titles of Eurotrip

Poster Made from 978 Zombie Movies, Games and Books

Sion Lee aka Freaking Awesome made this super cool typographic poster created out of 978 zombie movies, games and books.  Make sure to click to zoom, or better yet check out the official site where you can zoom into every little typographic detail.

Typeface - a documentary film about old wooden type making and printing

Typeface film poster designed by Nick Sherman.  

Check out our post on FlyerGoodness for more of Nick's work.

Available at the Typeface store.

Typeface prints designed by Dennis Ichiyama, a professor at Purdue University who appears in the documentary.  Prints available at the Typeface store.

Typeface print designed by Ashley Pigford. 

Available for $20 at the Typeface store.

Typeface print designed by Jason Early & Zissou Tasseff-Elenkoff

Available at the Typeface store.

Typeface print designed by Stacey Stern.

Available for $25 at the Typeface store.

 Poster from the Rochester Institute of Technology, and a photo of the press below.

Here is a really nice letterpress poster designed for the UK screening, designed by art student Alex Fowkes aka Pone.  Check out his website or his Flickr for much more.

Alex even made custom invitations and tickets which are downright awesome.

Here is a short time-lapse video of Alex's process in making the poster

One of the movies I actually look forward to the DVD release of, Typeface is a documentary about the tradition and art of wooden type design and printing, focusing on the historic Hamilton Wood Type Museum.  Here's what the documentary website has to say about it:

Here are some bits from the Typeface synopsis:
"Typeface focuses on a rural Midwestern museum and print shop where international artists meet retired craftsmen and together navigate the convergence of modern design and traditional technique."

"Typeface, Kartemquin’s latest documentary in progress, will bring this fascinating junction of historical and contemporary, as well as rural and urban America together for enjoyment and contemplation. This film will be of interest to art and graphic design enthusiasts, to teachers as an educational resource, and to anyone looking for a film about perseverance and preservation in the heart of America."

Here's the trailer for the film, due out on DVD this Spring. You can also check the website for screenings.

"The Hamilton Wood Type Museum in rural Two Rivers, Wisconsin, a struggling industrial town on Lake Michigan about an 90 minutes north of Milwaukee, houses over 1.5 million wood letterforms. Currently, these letters are not behind glass or partitions, but are instead organized and available for the layperson or artist to consider, hold, and if they attend a workshop, use for printing. The Museum occupies a portion of the original Hamilton Company type factory building, residing there free of charge to heighten Two Rivers’ cultural status."

Here's a video clip from the film, showing what it's like inside the Hamilton Wood Type Museum:

For another informative video about the museum, check out this youtube video by a local public tv station.

Apparently the place is chock full of over a million pieces of wooden type.
Here are some photos inside the museum, from the Typeface photo gallery:
Get ready for some typographic goodness:

Photo from the Typeface photo gallery.

Photo from the Typeface photo gallery.

Photo from the Typeface photo gallery.

Photo from the Typeface photo gallery.

Photo from the Typeface photo gallery.

Photo from the Typeface photo gallery.

Photo from the Typeface photo gallery.

 

 

Photo from the Typeface photo gallery.

 

Photo from the Typeface photo gallery.

Check it out!  I'll have to drive over an hour to see ascreening towards the end of the month (note:  they're currently not scheduled for Los Angeles).

LINKS:

- Official website of the Typeface documentary
- List and updates of Screenings

More Star Wars Posters by Justin Van Genderen (prints now available)

For those of you who saw those cool Star Wars posters by Justin Van Genderen on our blog a few weeks ago, we have good news:  There's new designs, and they are all available as prints!  Check out Justin's shop here and check out the new designs below:

Pretty clean Alderaan print available for a reasonable price here.

New Yavin IV poster design also available for purchase here.

If you haven't seen the other posters in the series, be sure to check em out here.

Justin Van Genderen - Star Wars Posters

 

  

 

A little something for all you star wars fans out there:  Justin Van Genderen designed these cool posters devoted to each city, planet, moon and floating metropolis in the Star Wars universe.  When will these be available for prints?  Until then, check out the original posting on his Behance.

Ibraheem Youssef

Exquisite Quentin Tarantino graphic movie poster series from Toronto based designer, art director, and obsessionist Ibraheem Youssef.

Barq - Connected

One of the coolest posters from last year, designed by the Danish studio Barq, composed of the super-duo Anders Baden Nielsen and Joaquim Marquès Nielsen.  Watch the video below to check out their process, which is very fun to watch, and check out Joaquim's detailed post on the retro sci-fi influences and other parts of the design process.  It's one thing to have a flyer design idea, and its a lot of work to get that idea started, finalized, and printed.  Posters are available for purchase here.

Tyler Stout - Monster Squad

Something brand new from our dear friend Tyler Stout.  Check out his Mondo, but currently these prints have sold out already.  In the meantime browse through some of his other work we featured earlier.

Hatch Show Print - American Artifact

An amazing letterpress poster by Hatch Show Print, an infamous shop that has been cranking out carved wooden type on paper since the 1950's in Nashville.  You can check out just how old-school their printmaking process is on their clip on the American Artifact website.  If you can, check out the trailer and see if they're screening in your area, because its a pretty cool documentary on the traditional and non-digital craft of making flyers and posters.

Money Mark (Beautiful Losers)

Cool promo poster for Money Mark, a contributor to the Beautiful Losers soundtrack. The illustrated rainbow organ is twisted and trippy, vaguely reminiscent of Dr. Seuss himself.

Big H Film Festival

Lance Freitag

Died Young, Stayed Pretty

For a while now, I've been trying to figure out how one would watch this film outside Canada. It's a documentary following the indie-poster scene, with what looks like some cool interviews and insight with some talented graphic designers and artists. If anyone knows how I can get a hold or a view of this, I'm begging here.