big poster link list

Early Poster History
Polish posters
The Chairman smiles: political posters from Soviet Russia, China, Cuba
Art Nouveau
Poster For Tomorrow
Shephard Fairey
Power to the Poster
60s Art Nouveau influenced posters
Wolfgang's Vault
Gig Posters
Scrojo (Belly Up)
Heads of State

some more integrated type

Peachbeach: via

What can a poster do?

Agitprop poster by Vladimir Mayakovsky titled: "Want it? Enter."
"1. You want to overcome cold?
2. You want to overcome hunger?
3. You want to eat?
4. You want to drink?

Early Poster History

headless, but super smart

Headless studio reel 2010 from Headless Productions on Vimeo.

"Headless Productions is a small independent animation studio founded by Adrian Garcia, Alfredo Torres and Victor Maldonado. We're based in Barcelona.

This is our current studio reel. There's some of the stuff we did in the past and some of the stuff we'll do in the future. Including sneak peeks to some of our future projects."

akio takamori

(image via)

Hello, all! When we were in the Asian Art Museum, I saw a sculpture by Akio Takamori (the elegant little sleeper in a plexi box on the floor) which reminded me to remind you that he'll be speaking this Wednesday, May 12th, at 5pm in the Art Center.

rabbit monks and robot boys

A nice write up on early origins of manga here.

A great article/comic from Wired on how manga conquered the U.S. here.

We're meeting here on Thursday at 2:30 (meet out front so that I can give you a sheet to fill out):

Seattle Asian Art Museum
1400 East Prospect Street
Volunteer Park
Seattle, WA 98112–3303
206.654.3100

So that we can see some Ukiyo-e in person!