Some are famous pieces that can still be spotted around most design studios today, maybe it be a mug or a mouse mat, such as the famous ‘Keep Calm And Carry On’ poster produced by the British Government in 1939 in the  anticipation of the air raids.

Other posters in the collection are rare and unseen by many people. These posters may have only caught the eyes of true War enthusiasts.

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http://itunes.apple.com/app/iwms-great-british-posters/id488761472?ls=1&mt=8

We thoroughly enjoyed looking through his website, all the sections were beautifully presented, his typography and poster design skills were especially impressive. We hope you enjoy as much as we did, and look forward to checking out what he will be creating in the near future.

http://www.mikelemanski.co.uk

So if you know someone who is avid poster collector, this would be the perfect present, I am particularly keen on the London Zoo collection. If you don’t get it for Christmas you could always getting it for a birthday or other celebrations

http://www.ltmuseumshop.co.uk/posters.html

Harper was an American Modernist artist, who was best know for his specific design style of producing wildlife prints, posters and book illustrations. After passing in 2007, he has left a legacy of prints, that can be enjoyed and talked about for years to come.

The simplicity and beauty of his prints makes them so appealing, and the wide range of different species is fascinating. I am particularly fond of the the piece with several images produced for ‘The Giant Golden Book of Biology’, first image posted in this blog.

We really hope you enjoy, I will be purchasing some of his stuff, website below!

https://www.charleyharperprints.com/

Archan is inspired by various phases and forms of life, he then creates his beautiful intricate works that connect the various dimensions of our existence.

Before his move into becoming a full time Art Director and Visual artist he was a fashion major and entrepreneur. Back in 2006 he started painting at the age of 24 and made the shift to independent artist in 2007. Since then he has embarked on an exhilarating and inspirational journey, collaborating with various companies and individuals around the world such as Canon, Nike, Tiger Beer, Sony etc. Archan has been featured in various publications including Computer Arts, Digital Arts, Advanced Photoshop, GQ, Bak, Vanity Fair just to name a few and has achieved recognition from music artists like Kanye West.

Archan’s passion and love for the creative process and expressing himself has opened a whole new journey, where he is exploring the beautiful essence of life.

We hope you enjoy a scroll through his website, on a cold chilly day / night, because his work seems to have a warm tropical feel to it. http://archann.net/  enjoy!

I created a page called ‘home page text’ in the admin and set this to be not indexed by search engines as this will just be for text fed through to another page.

This following code retrieves page data when you specify a given a page ID.

<?php
$page_id = 123; // 123 should be replaced with a specific Page's id from your site, which you can find by mousing over the link to edit that Page on the Manage Pages admin page. The id will be embedded in the query string of the URL, e.g. page.php?action=edit&post=123.
$page_data = get_page( $page_id ); // You must pass in a variable to the get_page function. If you pass in a value (e.g. get_page ( 123 ); ), WordPress will generate an error.

$content = apply_filters('the_content', $page_data->post_content); // Get Content and retain Wordpress filters such as paragraph tags. Origin from: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/get_pagepost-and-no-paragraphs-problem
$title = $page_data->post_title; // Get title
echo $content; // Output Content
?>

The shortened version of this code could be used like this:

<?php
$page_id = 123;
$page_data = get_page( $page_id );
$content = apply_filters('the_content', $page_data->post_content);
$title = $page_data->post_title;
echo $content;
?>

More on this code here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_page

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qRmwkRLb4Y

The Cube is composed of 216 individual high-energy sphere magnets, which can be formed into billions of shapes and patterns. It is highly addictive!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gidumziw4JE

He also has a blog that he created with the word Soldren which he states represents “Soldren literally is the combination of “soldiers” and “children”. It is a word to represent innocence and responsibility, wonder and discipline, humor and humility”.

He also mentions that he hopes to connect with many communities on my path. This is an opportunity for me to show what I’m inspired by and what my inspiration creates. Please visit as often as you like, and let me know what you think. I will do my best to keep Soldren.com updated and fresh.” His winter silk screen prints entitled Time / Space Navigation Apparatus and Particle Transport Module are seen below and can be ordered at http://flyingspectrum.bigcartel.com/

I have also featured one of his murals and one of his drawings, he posts drawings daily on his Facebook http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=661694415

He has also already had exhibitions in Sydney and his home town of London, England. He mostly works in 2D and 3D design, and has even stated that that his drawing skills are not that great, but he also says, that this is to change. He has a lot of respect for artists that have skills traditionally outside of the computer, and that he would like to develop his free hand skills. In a previous interview he has also mentioned he would like to attend a design school, instead of taking on a freelance position.

His main inspirations come from the work of artists H.R Giger and Rene Magritte. When he was young he would buy album covers simply if they look nice, and not for what the music was like inside.

Keep following Saad Moosajee, because no doubt his portfolio will keep growing, and will always continue to amaze.

http://www.saadart.com

The Pantone Hotel invites you to experience the city of Brussels through a lens of color and a spectrum of comforts. From the moment you arrive, their “hotel of colours” will awaken your senses to an array of delights and playful surprises.

Impeccably designed by Michel Penneman and Olivier Hannaert, The Pantone Hotel showcases the colour of emotion with a distinctive hue on each coloured guest floor. From vivid to subdued, for business or leisure, their unique boutique hotel perfectly suits your savvy palette and colourful imagination.

From a design perspective, The Pantone Hotel is built on an exceptional use of contrast; a white canvas provides clean space for saturated colours to pop. Guest rooms feature unique photography by esteemed Belgian photographer Victor Levy.

Welcome to the center of the colour universe.

http://www.pantonehotel.com

A film of a giant open mouth confronts you as you enter this survey of Pape’s work from the 1950′s to the 1970′s. Framed by a beard, it sucks a huge lozenge, or lazily blows smoke. At one point, the lips contract and the tongue squeezes through the moist, wrinkly hole. This is intercut with a beardless mouth sucking something long and fleshy. All to the funky rhythm of 1970′s muzak. It’s art masquerading as cheesy 1970′s porn, or perhaps the other way around. The film is called Eat Me, but all around there are other kinds of imbibing and ingesting going on. There is a theme of rebirthing, too, as Pape emerges head-first from a box. If you’re not a chilled-out child of the 1960s, this might strike you as a bit irritating. Other work, which revisits Mondrian and Van Doesburg, is visually pleasing but not much more.

As a life-time survey, this exhibition feels thin, though the theatrical installation that greets you in the dark, which appears as golden shafts of light striking the ground (in fact they’re gold threads), is rather lovely.

Lygia Pape – Magnetized Space
7 December 2011 – 19 February 2012
http://www.serpentinegallery.org/2011/03/lygia_pape.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDTnzAeHL9s

To find out more about D&AD visit their website: http://www.dandad.org

It was a real commercial success: mission accomplished.