Blogs Posted Under Creative Inspiration

The creative design minds over at Tunnel Bravo, a Mesa, Arizona-based ad agency have been churning out performance posters for the East Valley Children’s Theater for a number of years now, and I continue to instantly love the simplicity to each of the poster’s concepts, the minimalistic approach to their layouts, and the gorgeous, rich color palettes for these series. Having classic children’s tales as the subject matter, these posters lend themselves to a great.. || Continue Reading →

I am sure these have been around the internet block a few times as this particular campaign is a few years old now, but I came across this series of promotional posters for Disneyland’s Star Wars Weekends that they have for about a month long every year to kick off the summer.  What I love about this particular series more than others, is that Disneyland’s in-house Creative Department, Yellow Shoes Creative, decided to play off off the imagination of the fans.  Their.. || Continue Reading →

Something happened to me on the way to the year 1994.  I disappointedly found almost no movie posters that I thought to be worth really drawing attention to for their stellar graphic design.  It’s like all of the design houses that were producing movie posters all decided to take a creative break for the year. The reality is that there were only two that I felt were worth blogging about here, and in this case not because of design execution, but a creative concept and.. || Continue Reading →

If you have been following my blog series on movie posters, than you know that it has been a while, so I thought I would revisit the subject matter and pick things up where I left off.  Namely… 1993. Funny to think that was almost 20 years ago and where things have gone regarding design principles. 1993 didn’t have too bad of a crop of posters, with a just a few that are worth mentioning that push the envelope just a bit more with regards to visual direction, concept,.. || Continue Reading →

I am a casual gamer. While I love games and have a few different gaming consoles, I don’t have tons of time to game.  I am a creative first, a gamer second. Which probably why I get mesmerized when I discover a game that has so much production value into it from a creative side that I am left in awe.  The game Ico did it for me.  So did Machinarium.  Games that are so well designed from the levels, to the menus, to the sound.  The game oozes quality. Needless to say,.. || Continue Reading →

It has already been a crazy and busy New Year, so I am just now getting down to getting a new entry posted up here. Today’s showcasing is something rather unique in my book.  How do you envision a new, creative way of inviting people to your upcoming wedding.  Usually wedding invites are elegant forms of paper, perhaps embossings, and are fairly minimalistic in their design approach.  You say the date, the time, the location and the RSVP info. What if you wanted to give.. || Continue Reading →

Sometimes you run across a printed product that just makes you stop and stare.  I am still picking up my dropped jaw after coming across the package design for the Monarch Playing cards by the fanciful folks over at Theory 11.  They pulled out all of the stops on this one.  The sophisticated use of typography, and ornamentation is simply genius.  Coupled with exquisite printed with embossing and metallic inks on beautiful and tactile paper. The best part?  The deck only costs.. || Continue Reading →

This is one of those rare entries where I am just going to show you an image I came across the other day… on a mobile app for free high-res iPhone backgrounds of all places. The most troubling thing is, I have tried but can’t track down the talent behind this awesome painting.  If anyone stumbles across this, contact me and I will give them credit where credit is most certainly due. I love the thought of a shark lurking in the murky depths of the ocean.  But to take.. || Continue Reading →

I can’t remember where I first came across his illustrations, but there was something both charming and disturbing about his style of imagery, his lifework, and his subject matter that I found both intriguing and inspiring. I am talking about the new, up-and-coming illustrator out of Berlin, Germany: 21 year-old Niklas Coskan.  Also know as the Dee Dee Kid, this youngster is proving himself a force to be reckoned with. From his fabulous use of thick-and-thin ink lines,.. || Continue Reading →

Ismet Dural owns a circumcision clinic in Istanbul and in order to spread his contact details in his local area, an economical solution was needed.  So the creative folks over at Healthy People by Grey design and create a poster for him that had perforated tabs. This brilliantly creative solution is simple in execution, tastefully done, and allows the consumer to participate in the idea by removing one of the tabs to keep his contact information, while ummm… circumcising the.. || Continue Reading →