Fabio Sasso and the bang-up team over at Abduzeedo are celebrating their 3rd year this month. 3 years is a long time of sharing inspiration, tutorials, advice and design news around the web and the team shows no sign of letting up. Fabio asked me to participate in the celebration by means of a poster giveaway, and since he has been an amazing supporter of me and my work for a few years now I am hugely honored to be a part of the big event. Shown above is my Abduzeedo 3rd Year Anniversary poster.

The inspiration behind this one is fairly simple: 2001: A Space Odyssey mixed with the Star Trek movie posters by Bob Peak I posted last week. I spent a considerable amount of time building the radium lines in this design, and the PSD file topped 1.4 GB near the end, probably my largest yet.

The massive giveaway is underway with lots of amazing prizes including three copies of this poster, so swing on over to Abduzeedo for your chance to win.

Happy 3 years, Abduzeedo! Here’s to many more.

I came across this poster just moments ago on Ffffound and had to put it on the blog. A perfectly executed poster in every way from the type, logo, and creepy sci-fi illustration. Beautiful.

I did a Google search to see if I could find the creator, and wouldn’t you know it, a familiar name. This poster was crafted by designers Anders Baden Nielsen and Joaquim Marquès Nielsen from the Danish design studio Barq. I know Joaquim’s name and work through this website, Jokke-Svin.dk. Good people doing good work :) And you have to see the mega post he made on the creation of this piece. This was all posted a little while ago, no idea how I missed it.

You can purchase the poster via their webstore, and be sure to pop by Joaquim’s blog and say hello.

Here is a 2-page spread I created for the kind folks over at Computer Arts Projects magazine, included in issue #131. Every issue of the mag contains the spread where different designers and artists use supplied phrases to create their own piece. I decided to make mine look like a mess of stickers, complete with little vector designs hidden amongst the fray.

The little round designs came from raiding my vector archives, it’s amazing how much you can amass over the course of a few years. You can see the full piece in a larger size right here.

Computer Arts Projects #131 is on newsstands in Europe right now.

It’s not very often I post about architecture on the blog, mostly because I know very little about the field aside from what appeals to me. However, after checking out the above images three times over the past day I felt an exception was in order. I came across these via Wearesuperfamous.

Shown here are some beautiful shots of the Wood Block Residence from the architects Chadbourne and Doss. This house incorporates everything I love about modern interior and exterior design, including steel, nice slats of wood, chrome highlights, nice squares and rectangles plus lots of glass. I would someday love to live in a place like this. So peaceful and elegant, yet industrial.

Here is bit of a descriptor taken from the original post:

“Located on the west side of Mercer Island, Washington, this house is a reconstruction of one of iconic Seattle architect Fred Bassetti’s earliest designs built in 1962. Fronting a busy street, we wanted to root the house to its sloping wooded site and provide a protective shelter for family life. The plan is opened up allowing for large family gathering spaces and perspectives throughout the full length of the house. A new metal skin with interior cedar liner wraps over the roof and grounds the house to the site. An aluminum bar grating screen encloses an exterior patio and deck filtering interior views and forming a sparkling and diaphanous wall from the street. The entry approach is redesigned with a cantilevered concrete landing in a sunken courtyard and a 4’ x 11’ pivot door to the interior. Bathing spaces are ethereally bright, smooth and seamless. Materials throughout are natural but installed and crafted in an extremely crisp manner.”

If this has you itching to see more, swing over to Schuchart/Dow for more architectural beauty.

Looking for a unique calendar for the upcoming year? Check out this beautifully painted 2010 calendar entitled Visionen: Retro Futuristische Illustrationen von Klaus Bürgle. Wonderfully crafted science fiction imagery coupled with some nicely done typography work. Any idea what typeface was used for the numerical months?

What better way to start the new decade then with visions of the future? You can check out the full spread of art and order the calendar right here.

I’ll be speaking at the upcoming Flash in the Can (FITC) conference in Toronto, April 25 – 27, 2010. I attended the conference last year and had a wonderful time checking out the presentations and meeting all kinds of creative people, and this year I’ll have the pleasure of being onstage myself.

This will be my first speaking at a con and I can’t say how excited I am. My presentation is lovingly named ‘Back to the Future’, and will involve a bunch of inspirational material, Signalnoise art retrospective, some technical tips and tricks, a brief about online tools for the artist, and some rock n’ roll. I want to bring Signalnoise posters and other goodies along this year, I’ll be sure to update as I go.

Lots of fun, hope to see you there!

I’ve made a couple of minor posts in the past about movie posters, specifically a couple of Star Trek pieces, but I wanted to bring them all together this time around. Here are the posters for Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country and the newest Star Trek movie released this year.

Admittedly, I’ve never been a giant fan of the Star Trek franchise outside of watching a bunch of Next Generation episodes back in the day, but with a renewed love of old-school special effects my pal Dave recommended some re-watchings. Coupled with that was the artwork surrounding each movie, and the selected images above are my favorites. Bob Peak is the man, and responsible for painting all the posters above excluding the newest film. Just look at those effects, brilliant.

Additionally, I really enjoy the concept of that newest poster. Using an unconventional white background for a space movie was a wonderful design choice. I expect nothing less with a guy like J.J. Abrams at the helm.

Here are a few examples of the beautiful design work by Albert Exergian. His television posters were the first to come across my radar, wonderfully stripped down illustrations displaying a prop or item capturing the concept of each show. Pair that with nice clean type, total victory.

What I have displayed here is the tip of the iceberg, be sure to swing over to Exergian.com and check out Albert’s full portfolio. Can’t way enough good things about his excellent and diverse work.

Update: Albert has informed me that his TV show posters are now available for purchase. Prints will be delivered as A1 (840mm x 594mm) archival glicee print, printed on ultra smooth fine art paper. Swing over to Blanka to check out the spread.