noteworthy news story today: the ‘simon wiesenthal centre’ in germany (renowned nazi-hunters) have launched a poster campaign to trace the very last remaining war criminals still walking around free, the posters have been placed in large cities (berlin, hamburg, cologne) under the header ‘operation last chance’
mister jarr geerligs has updated the posters in amsterdam blog, if this is a good barometer of current trends then the graphic/illustration route seems to be more popular than ever right now (as opposed to say photography or more pure type-based stuff) which doesn’t necessarily result in stronger posters in my opinion…
here’s a sneak view of a new project from ‘me’ that is about to launch this friday in amsterdam, a fresh new identity for a new advertising agency about to show the world their ‘tribal’ colours
amongst other identity items we have created is a series of 50 A0- sized posters that all interlink to create a giant colour & symbol pattern based on meta data about all of the employees that show the various ways in which the people are connected to each other, stay tuned next week…
spotted around town this week: a cheerfully optimistic poster design for an art event in a shopping centre by kummer & herrman
a beautiful series of figurative, post-war posters from dutch designer/illustrator koen van os, enjoy… they don’t make them like this anymore
