It’s almost election time, and that means lots of cool, free, printable posters by professional designers!
AIGA (the professional organization for designers) sponsored an awesome contest where members created and submitted VOTE posters. While the organization picked 24 winners, I had tons of fun going through all the posters to find which ones I liked best.
The one above is a winner in my heart. So funny, and true. So true, that when I posted it in my cubicle a coworker became so obsessed that she printed out about 10 tabloid sized AIGA posters, envisioning specific ones being plastered everywhere from the kitchen to the men’s bathroom. Success!
Anyway, the poster was created by Rob Alexander, who works at visitoffice.com, a design agency which I’ve just come to discovered does work for the McSweeney’s-related Pirate Supply Store (you know, the store that supports those kids’ writing centers).
Who wouldn’t want a bottle of Captain Blackbeard’s Dye and Scurvy BeGone Capsules? (I am actually totally in love with this stuff. You can shop for it here.)
I digress.
Back to the vote posters. (All of the ones below are free except for VOTE! by Obey. We don’t blame them, it’s a high-quality print!)
So, go to AIGA, checkout the posters, and download your favorites. Print them at work on tabloid paper. Post them everywhere. A BONUS Palin-related poster, after the jump! (more…)
First of all, NEXT WEEK you are in for a treat because our favorite contributer (okay, fine, only contributer besides me, but favorite nonetheless), Tricia, is back with more than a week of interviews with fabulous poster artists at the top of their game. (Remember her wildly successful school supply posts? Yeah, we couldn’t forget either.)
Tricia gave me a sneak peek of some of these artists’ posters, and I was floored. I can’t wait to read the interviews and see more pictures!
Anyway, as not to get ahead of ourselves (to get behind ourselves, in fact), a recap of this week’s Stickers & Donuts highlights:
And, as you can see from above, I got the Daytum invite I was hoping for (yay!) and promptly recorded the titles of books (and their accompanying page counts) I’ve read this past year. Doesn’t the layout look cool? And it was really easy to enter the data!
So have a wonderful Friday, a great weekend (rain here in New York!). We’ll meet here on Monday, okay? Okay!
If you already know about these annual reports, scroll down to read about the new data-collecting web-site!
This may be old news to you, but as I was reviving my English major spirit by reading Penguin’s Blog (Penguin the book company), I learned about graphic designer Nicholas Felton’s personal “Annual Reports.” I became so obsessed, that I had to post about them here.
Felton records everything from how much he drinks and walks to where he eats to how many books he reads. At the end of the year, he compiles this data in an amazingly designed “Annual Report” (check them out on his web-page).
You can also order a printed copy of his reports, but they’re all sold out (that’s why everyday after January 1 I’ll probably check his web-page to be sure I get a copy!). (Is it weird that not only I, but other people as well, want the “Annual Report” of some man we don’t even know?)
I became so obsessed with the idea of graphs, data, and a corporate-like personal report, that I started recording my past year (which I decided, for various reasons, was July 9 to July 9). Luckily, I compiled and saved 169 lists over the past year (I’m an obsessive list-writer), so I have a lot of data. But I didn’t know how I was ever going to make such pretty graphs.
The Web-Site!
That’s why I’m so excited that is that Felton is creating a web-site, called daytum.com, just for the purpose of beautiful data-collection. It’s currently open by invite-only in beta, and I’m hoping, hoping, hoping someone will let me in!
(A couple of blogs lately have also mentioned mycrocosm, another resource for collecting and graphing daily life-data. It looks cool, but I do love that daytum is designed by Felton!)
