How awesomely retro, yet fresh is the work of Cristiana Couceiro?
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Michael De Pippo, like every great, self-motivated designer, didn’t wait for permission to create something he loved despite the fact that this something contained copyrighted material.
In this case, this copyrighted something was the members of The Electric Mayhem from The Muppet Movie:

I love the Muppets. And with the movie coming out in the next couple of months, there is no better time for a fun little side project involving the best band ever conceived: Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem.

My idea was simple; create a vintage concert poster for each band member (Dr. Teeth, Janice, Sgt. Floyd Pepper, Zoot and Animal). Using clean, crisp vectors, negative space and few colours, I wanted to keep them as simple and stylized as possible; reminiscent of retro posters from back in the day.

There’s a happy ending to this story. Disney loved Michael’s posters too and decided to license and sell them at Acme Archives.
His posters are incredible and it looks like many of the limited runs for each character are already sold out. A quick search on eBay reveals you can still find them, albeit for over double their original $60 price tag.
*For those of you who haven’t seen the original Muppet Movie (1979) or are too young to remember, the title of this post is from this scene in the movie.
Check out these insanely awesome posters:





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Alex Rainert is right, you can’t not see veins or think of a heart when you look at these visualizations of geotag density in cities by Eric Fischer.
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Office of Harvey Earl, Vice President of Design at General Motors (c. 1950’s)
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I agree with Alexis Madrigal over at the Atlantic, Tesla’s letterhead was way better than Edison’s.
Not to mention his stance on AC versus Edison’s on DC.

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Mr. Lead Screw via Northcoast Zeitgeist

Susan Kare created this image, but I needed a bigger version to post, so I made one.
It’s crazy, because it does look like the post-hippie Steve.

I want this.

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My Kickstarter poster project is now live, and I’ve explained the idea behind it, so now I thought I would share why the design is structured the way it is.
The Golden Spiral.
The Golden Spiral is created from the Fibonacci number sequence – 1, 1, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34 …
You’ve probably seen it before:

My friend and fellow Daily Exhaust contributor, Jory, was the one who suggested I use it. Like any tool, the golden ratio is only useful if you know how to use it. I knew how to use it, but initially I didn’t know where I should use it.
It also brought to mind an image I came across this past year of the Apple logo:

I thought it only fitting I use sacred geometry for someone like Steve Jobs. So I just laid the Golden Spiral graphic above over my original design and started experimenting with shapes. Eventually I ended up with this:

And if you flip the grid horizontally, you can see how I positioned the other elements:

Aside from the silhouette of Steve Jobs, every shape with the brain/gears group is positioned and sized according to this ratio. Every circle diameter corresponds to the size of each box within the grid:

Even without seeing the spiral grid laid on top of the design, the elements just feel balanced. In no way does it guarantee a beautiful design, but if it’s used right, it can make all the difference.