19 Comments

1st poster is my favourite, i love minimal and white is so in. The tiny red X speaks a thousand words.
stu
2010-08-12 17:36:08

Hurt is from Nine Inch Nails not Johnny Cash.
Rebel
2010-08-12 18:10:47

Oh god, finally the proof (as if I needed it) that I am spending far too long on blogs, when I should obviously be dealing with my mounting workload, or checking emails, no, no, I mean working.

What I mean to say is that I assumed everyone had seen this website weeks, if not months ago and posts of it had long since passed into the great blogoshere archive in the ‘cloud. ’

I don’t make this point to show off, more as a comment on the challenges facing publishing in today’s over connected world. When everything is so readily available to everyone, instantly, what is important or relevant?

Creative Review is a good magazine, always has been. And the CR Blog has been a daily source of enlightenment, not to mention entertainment - following some of the heated debates about this job and that.

But are we getting to the point where we have seen, heard and read about everything to do with everything before ink has even hit paper.

I know this is just a ‘blog’ I’m talking about and a magazine or newspapers job is to go deeper, curating content and putting across an intelligent point of view, but nevertheless we live in interesting times.

Now what was I supposed to be doing...

P.S. none of this is a comment on the work of Mico Toledo.
Ben Stott
2010-08-12 19:27:52

Yeah, The Guardian Guide featured this guy last Saturday. Great looking work.
Mark Kardwell
2010-08-12 20:27:09

I think this posters are informative and rimind us, people,about little precious things we tend to forget and not no notice.
Bohdana
2010-08-12 22:26:19

I love these ...they've been around for a few months CR ;)
Stuart Paciej
2010-08-13 03:01:44

Nine Inch Nails wrote Hurt. Otherwise these are great!
Daniel George
2010-08-13 08:38:03

@Daniel George

Yep, Cash covered it.

Love these, they're great! :D
Stu Mason
2010-08-13 12:18:20

Hey yoouuu... out there in the cold, always doing what you're told...

Made me want to listen to Pink Floyd now..
Digital Marketing London
2010-08-13 15:56:57

Fantastic typography executed well. These would make great postcards too.
Mark
2010-08-13 21:10:04

Am i the only one to think this is distressing like anthony burrils work..?? im not saying that mr burrill owns the style but come on really? especially the last poster...from the worst hotel in the world publication? even same colour? bah!
alex
2010-08-14 18:58:05

Don't see the appeal personally. Setting a phrase/sentence/lyric in lots of different fonts and then moving them around a bit so they are harder to read is not good communication or design in my opinion.
Ben
2010-08-15 09:53:42

Kind of heavily borrowing a lot of elements (including custom typography) from Anthony Burrill doncha think?
Bojkowski
2010-08-15 10:49:09

isn't this a bit like it's pop it's art which has been going for quite a while now?
hiliary
2010-08-16 13:42:58

not for me.
Graphic Design Manchester
2010-08-17 00:43:16

I don't think these visuals add anything to the lyrics...like, a mention of a bus equals a picture of a bus. not exciting.
hmh1983
2010-08-17 17:45:07

Horribly derivative and way too literal. Adds absolutely nothing to the lyrics and proper low hanging fruit crowd pleaser fodder.



Oh the song mentions bus so we draw a bush, time so we draw a clock, beautiful day so we draw a sun.





Highschool level garbage
INTERNET THE
2010-08-18 11:09:00

Are they doing a 'I love big butts and I cannot hide' one?

Good graphics by the way.
Craig Dalkean
2010-08-19 09:38:50

I really like all of these posters. The bold fonts and simple graphics, which seem to be on trend, work nicely and convey the messages.

I also don't think it matters that these have been around a while. We can't read everything. I'm just glad I've seen them.

P.S Like Craig Dalkean's comment above the best.
Victoria
2010-08-19 10:09:46

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