Lovely poster created by Stanley Donwood for the upcoming Glastonbury festival this week. Unsurprisingly the poster has already sold out it’s 250 limited edition lithographs. However, good news for those attending the festival as Donwood has also contributed to an official festival newspaper, the Glastonbury Fire Lighter.

I just wish the Glastonbury digital side of things would sort themselves out and incorporate some of these nice graphical elements, at least for their website…

After the recent rioting over the opening of a Tesco’s store in Stokes Croft, Bristol of which more than 30 people were arrested, Banksy has in response launched a new piece of art. The poster, of a Tesco Value petrol bomb shows a significant piece of commentary on Tesco’s overwhelming dominance and his support for the protesters. It’s also nice to see some of Banksy’s more painted style work reach the headlines. The poster is going to be sold too at the Bristol Anarchist Bookfair for £5 with the profits going to support the legal defence of for the arrested rioters.

I know Banksy seems to have quite a lot of critics these days for his work (as would anyone in the public eye), but you can’t fault his wit and social / political commentary.

Dan Mountford has created some beautiful graphics, including this set of double exposures.
“This was created ‘In camera’ & colour was edited in photoshop & Vectors overlayed in illustrator.” He’s got a tonne more over at his Flickr page, but I’m really feeling the portrait shots combined with the landscape exposures; really gives a sense of depth of who that person is, where they may have come from, and builds on their character.

Matt JOnes aka Lunartik has been working on his worldwide ‘Custom Tea Tour’ together with 30 top notch artists, in which artists decorate a trendy little character together with a lovely cup of tea and now it’s finishing at the Kidrobot Store in London, where it will be displayed for one week from the 15th Oct (that’s tomorrow) and auctioned off for charity to help raise money for the NSPCC.

There’s a great eclectic range of style from many different artist, a few of which are below including pieces from Tado, Ian Stevenson, Jefff, Graham Powell, and Veggiesomething, though you can take a looksy through all of them at Matt Jones flickr page, or if your around the big smoke you can pop in to see them in the flesh. Head down to the Kidrobot Store, just off Shaftesbury Ave in London. Available for you to bid on ebay from the 15th October 2010 and bidding ends on the 22nd.

by Tado

by Ian Stevenson

by Jefff

Graham Powell

by Veggiesomething

Justin Quinnell pinhole of Bristol's Suspension Bridge

Just stumbled upon these amazing photographs taken a couple of years ago by Justin Quinnell, a renowned pin-hole artist from Cornwall, using a single sheet of photographic paper, a 0.25mm aperture pinhole camera (using empty drink cans), and an exposure of 6 months.

The photo’s are part of a collection of several iconic places in Bristol. The illumated lines darting across the sky represent the sun’s path over the six month, with broken gaps where the sun was blocked by clouds.

Justin Quinnell pinhole of the SS Great Britain

Justin Quinnell pinhole of St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol

The Alamo Drafthouse is known as being one of the best theatre’s in America, with a real passion for entertainment and cinema; it doesn’t show ads before screenings and gives artists the chance to produce their own versions of posters for upcoming shows like the Total Recall poster here.
This August they’ve continued the trend for artworking events as it set’s out on a tour across America in their Rolling Roadshow. This time we’re treated to a whole collection of cult movies including the likes of Robocop, Dirty Harry, and Rocky, all of which are lovingly recreated by Olly Moss in his heavily influenced Saul Bass style with a nice choice of orange to really make the collection stand out as a vibrant and exciting whole.

Design and football, is there anything sweeter when mixing the two? …Perhaps a few things, but it’s a pretty good combo to say the least.
That’s one of the reason’s New York agency Hyperakt (who have done some other nice stuff including (one of my personal past time fav’s) info graphics for GOODmagazine) has done what every agency aspires to do, and mixed the two into one very nice result, a World Cup poster to celebrate the end of a great tournament.

You can put a “pledge” down for a copy yourself, then if enough people hit the target of $3000 worth of pledges – the posters will be printed when the World Cup finishes. So to help the promotion of good design, or to just have a nice memento from the tournament, pledge one here.

There’s been quite abit of love for London going around amongst the artist community, and with the current sunny spell we’re all enjoying in this awesome city, why not.

Mike Lemanski has done a mini series of graphic posters (available to buy from NewLeavesStudio) with a particular striking one based on London -

There’s also this fantastic time lapse video of the big smoke too, by photographer Alex Silver. Really captures the summery vibe.

You’ve Got to Love London from Alex Silver on Vimeo.

With the World Cup starting this Friday there’s been quite a few design related posts popping up across the blog world. This one caught my eye in particular; David Watson of TrebleSeven has given the classic wall chart a rather nice typographic treatement. Initially, I found it a little confusing, but the colour and graphic detail makes this far more appealing than anything else out there. It’s all for a good cause too, with all proceeds going to Soccer Aid | UNICEF. You can purchase the poster directly from TrebleSeven, and Magma.
I’m heading down to Magma this lunch time…

Still loving these retro re-styling posters from popular culture. This time, here’s Steven Finch paying homage to a few of the best comic’s; The Incredible Hulk, Daredevil, The Fantastic Four and The Watchmen. Minimal graphics, reliable Helvetica, and pastel colours are the classic ingredients for the distinctive look, and the additional detail of adding the worn, distressed effect give it a premium retro-styling.

Check out other similar work from Finch over at his blog, including the likes of X-Men, and The Silver Surfer.