Design Inspiration | typography posters

As designers we can all appreciate good, well composed typography posters. Matching the graphic design to the right font can be tricky, even for the best designers. These posters I have listed here should be a great for anyone struggling with typography or just for someone looking for some design inspiration.

Remember graphics can support the type you are using or the type can support the graphics you are using. To deliver the message consicely and effectively, you need to make sure your type is expressive enough, your design is distinctive enough and the composition, overall, is strong enough.

Breaks logo

0401 300x298

Beauty by Mrgraphicsguy

textart4 300x223

Piotr Fedorczyk / Florence, Italy

symbols 225x300

Stel Christian Cambas Poster by SeBDeSiGN

textart5 300x164

Emiliano Lionel Suárez / Argentina

watapak2 300x209

watapak 300x209

Pablo Alfieri / Buenos Aires, Argentina

crowd 195x300

Aaron Pou / USA

water 236x300

Experimental Jetset / Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2 213x300

Todd Roeth / USA

33 194x300

Alex Banks / United Kingdom

2005 200x300

Oh Ishi / Siam, Thailand

2007 300x300

Lennart Wolfert / Netherlands

antw 218x300

Bunch / USA

bunch 236x300

Noel Tanner / Minneapolis, USA

chess 300x288

Yaronimus Maximus / Israel

core 211x300

Andy Cambiaso / Argentina

desde 300x300

Juanma Teixidó / Asunción, Paraguay

designis 225x300

James White – http://signalnoise.com/

Von Trapp Family Singers – 2004

lee25 / United Kingdom

ecosystem 235x300

Aron Jancso / Budapest, Hungary

french 193x300

Maxime Delporte / France

gd 225x300

HeyHo / France

heyho 228x300

Karan Singh – www.wakeupmrsingh.com

Alexander Radsby – www.aeform.net

Shaun Morrison / Brighton, England

ideas 212x300

Kate Andrews / London, United Kingdom

incomplete 218x300

Kwadrofnik “Folklove” – Oficyna Open Sources 2008

$Kwadrofnik \$

Farhad Fozuni / Iran

iran 300x238

Hanna Czapka / Germany

kali 222x300

Vincent Bousserez / Paris, France

lavie 300x300

Mark Andrew Webber / Falmouth, England

lino 300x212

Puerto Baires / Buenos Aires, Argentina

lorem 212x300

Baia

blikdsgn.com

Piotr Fedorczyk / Florence, Italy

o 295x300

Aron Jancso / Budapest, Hungary

pattern 196x300

Pablo Alfieri / Buenos Aires, Argentina

playful1 213x300

ochentas.com.mx

Mike Harrison – www.destill.net

mrgraphicsguy / Germany

retro 210x300

Jeremy Somer

Emil Kozak / Spain

skate 300x250

Sterk Water / Belgium

sterkwater 182x300

25ah / Stockholm, Sweden

swed 300x204

Andre Bergamin / Brazil

technix 300x198

The Gift v2 by MrBadger

textart1 300x146

Sarah France – Magazine Cover

Art Lines by Luuqas

www.morteniveland.net

Design Candy by ardcor

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2008

Oriental Pages_Page32 by Malikanas

textart2 300x146

XTRABOLD

textart7 300x130

Tony Rohr’s Ring

textart8 300x136

State To State

textart9 300x136

Good Morning Stranger by Nicolas Alexander

textart10 300x220

Smoke + Type by Daniel Gordon

textart12 300x166

Futura by Craig Ward

textart14 300x166

Birthday Flyer

textart16 300x266

Climate Change ‘Co2′ ideas

025 300x212

Gui Borchert

Children of the Idiom by Pablo Alfieri

textart17 300x200

Drasik

textart18 300x120

Drasik

textart19 300x120

Avatar: 15 Minute In Calcutta

textart21 300x153

STAY GREEN. GO RED.

textart23 300x200

Dolce & Gabbana

textart24 300x123

Adobe by Stefan Lucut

textart26 300x123

BMW X3 by Sergio Cullell

textart27 300x123

mrgraphicsguy / Germany

tunnel 200x300

Requiem

001 300x189

CMYK Lovers

003 300x187

North Sea Jazz festival poster

qp logo

006 300x240

Empire / Theo Aartsma

008 300x177

Go Media

Rodrigo Braga

Blik x Drez

018 282x300

Αnapodi Klosti Poster

020 300x300

Palawa Poster

023 199x300

The Well of the Saints A1 poster

024 211x300

Rasterfeld Event Poster

030 216x300

Personal Geocode

031 224x300

FitzGerald Album (Extended Play)

036 300x200

Bold type

042 299x300

Extraverage x The KDU

044 300x224

Spaghetti Dinner Poster

047 194x300

Sweet Sixteen

057 300x187

Visual Lexicon v 2.1 Metamorphosis

067 141x300

Type Area

074 300x211

Wim Crouwel: New Alphabet book

076 300x225

Nederlandse Postzegels 1971

078 300x225

Experimental Jetset: SMCS Invitations

081 208x300

Chaumont, festival international de l’affiche, version longue – Etienne Mineur archives

104 203x300

Moctezuma: James Brown

111 235x300

Typography Poster Updates

Typography-A by lemondesign

Flower Typography by BahiQ8

Typography by Rachel-Speed

Typography days by desmes

TYPOgraphy by alienbiru

Typography book 3 of 5 by artdude85

Typography by Siccie

Typography Photo by fadiawwad

Inject knowledge question mark by CHIN2OFF

Prestige Typography – 1 by bella-elizabetta

Chinese Typo.01 by wormsinfected

Poster1-Garamond by djsoundwav

Typography by maxtomar

Resources

For more info on typography check out http://ilovetypography.com/

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Published:: Thursday, August 28th, 2008

Author:: Simon Page

Category:: Design Inspiration

Tags:: creative resource, creative thinking, Design Inspiration, design trends, featured posts, fonts, formatting, graphic design, illustrator, lettering, logo design, photoshop, posters, typography

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Great showcase of designs with effective typography.

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This is a terrific display of inspiring art. I’m sure it took a great deal of time to put this together. Thank you for your efforts.

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great typography.. i really luv them

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[...] For more great uses of type check out here. [...]

sao September 7th, 2009

amazing !
beautiful

karam (lebanon) January 6th, 2010

wow .its good inspiration ….thanks alot for efforts ….

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[...] also if you are interested in typography posters, check this website to see what comes to your mind and what we can learn from others’ [...]

minha baramy April 10th, 2010

amazing tytpography.great job.congrats and thankyou!

Yvonne July 21st, 2010

great collection my favorite is Birthday Collection

Brittany October 20th, 2010

I know this is an old collection, but I have had it bookmarked for a while and keep coming back to it because it’s such a good post! Just thought I’d share that :)

sameera February 5th, 2011

Grate collection, thanks for being a good inspired. and teach all of us to creativity and think.

swifty January 10th, 2012

Stellar use of typography here. It truly is an art form in and of itself.

Design Inspiration | typography posters

Beauty by Mrgraphicsguy

Piotr Fedorczyk / Florence, Italy

Stel Christian Cambas Poster by SeBDeSiGN

Emiliano Lionel Suárez / Argentina

Pablo Alfieri / Buenos Aires, Argentina

Aaron Pou / USA

Experimental Jetset / Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Todd Roeth / USA

Alex Banks / United Kingdom

Oh Ishi / Siam, Thailand

Lennart Wolfert / Netherlands

Bunch / USA

Noel Tanner / Minneapolis, USA

Yaronimus Maximus / Israel

Andy Cambiaso / Argentina

Juanma Teixidó / Asunción, Paraguay

James White – http://signalnoise.com/

lee25 / United Kingdom

Aron Jancso / Budapest, Hungary

Maxime Delporte / France

HeyHo / France

Karan Singh – www.wakeupmrsingh.com

Alexander Radsby – www.aeform.net

Shaun Morrison / Brighton, England

Kate Andrews / London, United Kingdom

Farhad Fozuni / Iran

Hanna Czapka / Germany

Vincent Bousserez / Paris, France

Mark Andrew Webber / Falmouth, England

Puerto Baires / Buenos Aires, Argentina

Piotr Fedorczyk / Florence, Italy

Aron Jancso / Budapest, Hungary

Pablo Alfieri / Buenos Aires, Argentina

Mike Harrison – www.destill.net

mrgraphicsguy / Germany

Emil Kozak / Spain

Sterk Water / Belgium

25ah / Stockholm, Sweden

Andre Bergamin / Brazil

The Gift v2 by MrBadger

Oriental Pages_Page32 by Malikanas

Good Morning Stranger by Nicolas Alexander

Smoke + Type by Daniel Gordon

Futura by Craig Ward

Children of the Idiom by Pablo Alfieri

Adobe by Stefan Lucut

BMW X3 by Sergio Cullell

mrgraphicsguy / Germany

Empire / Theo Aartsma

Typography Poster Updates

Typography-A by lemondesign

Flower Typography by BahiQ8

Typography by Rachel-Speed

Typography days by desmes

TYPOgraphy by alienbiru

Typography book 3 of 5 by artdude85

Typography by Siccie

Typography Photo by fadiawwad

Inject knowledge question mark by CHIN2OFF

Prestige Typography – 1 by bella-elizabetta

Chinese Typo.01 by wormsinfected

Poster1-Garamond by djsoundwav

Typography by maxtomar

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