Where the rubber meets the drywall
You had posters of them tacked all over your walls as a kid, like some kind of auto-obsessed John Nash after weeks of skipping his meds. You dreamt of driving one up to the high school parking lot, simply to scoop up your cheerleader girlfriend and drag away into the sunset, waking even that sleeping [...]
10 from 6,000,000
The specialty print house Sonic Editions and Sean Sullivan’s The Impossible Cool are at it again, following up their first print collaboration with a new volley of ten incredible photographs dug up from over six million photographs found in archives of the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Just like the last batch, each image in [...]
Infrastructure never looked so good
The airport runway screenprints ($24) series from Chicago design shop Nomo combines two of our favorite subjects, design and travel, to create a unique set of wall art. Each 18″ x 24″ print is made using white ink on Steel Gray 100# Dur-O-Tone Cover by French Paper Co and depicts the runway layout of some [...]
Limited Edition Legends
The folks over at Sonic Editions have teamed up with our friend, and master photo hunter (we’re not talking bar games people) The Impossible Cool to produce a series of stunning prints covering ten of the greatest icons of all time (think Ali, Connery, McQueen, Newman, Hepburn, etc). Each image in the series is limited [...]
Walletica
The combination of cartography and typography is pretty much everything GP could ask for in a print. Clearly we’re not alone in this sentiment, judging by Axis Map’s decision to create the Typographic Maps ($15-$195) series. These prints accurately depict the streets, highways, parks, neighborhoods, coastlines, and physical features of Chicago or Boston using nothing [...]
X Marks Your Wall
If you’ve even read one men’s publication (online, blog, or traditional) then you’ve probably come across the axes by Best Made Company. Justifiably so, they’re gorgeous. Best Made Company isn’t just a one trick pony, though. These one-of-a-kind woodblock print Vintage Maps ($50) harness the same explorer/woodsy feel, and don’t require any backbreaking swinging on [...]
A Unique Tribute to America's Biggest Cult Director
These posters may not make sense to those unfamiliar with the works of Quentin Tarantino, but that’s part of their fun. Created by artist Ibraheem Youssef, each of these minimalist movie posters cleverly hints at key elements or parts of Tarantino’s films any fan should immediately understand. Not to mention they’re also incredibly more attractive [...]
Flaunt Your Inner Geek with Unique Retro Flair
A little while back you might remember a post we did on a series of posters entitled Under the Milky Way by Ross Berens. Well while on a similar hunt to find unique artwork that was both tasteful and undoubtedly masculine, we recently discovered a this series done to commemorate 2009 as the International Year [...]
It’s time for you to take down those movie posters down from your walls and upgrade to art. It doesn’t have to be some vintage piece that costs more than your parents house but that doesn’t mean you can’t make it look like you care a little about the one’s that matter. Take for example [...]
