Inspired Ingenuity / Really Useful Poster Series

Serendipity, the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way, is a wonderful thing. One email in my inbox asked me to write a short article about inspired ingenuity, and in particular to identify a piece of work that I thought made ’something from nothing’. And the very next email had, what I thought, exactly that.

Dirty Mouse was asked to write a couple of lines to promote a competition run by Havana Club called Inspired Ingenuity.

Mash Creative’s ‘Really Useful’ poster series builds on their precursor ‘State of the Obvious’ collection, and extends the philosophy and thinking behind it. Take the ubiquitous poster, theme it with useful information relevant to a creative studio, and set it in such a way that it becomes both art and tool.

The careful grid structure, colour palette, and glorious typesetting on the 200gsm Giclée print will no doubt have creative brains drooling, and the whole set would look tremendous in any design studio. But I’m pretty sure that beyond actually looking the part, they are damn useful. Take a close look at the detail on each one; useful snippits of information that provide a reference point. Simple yet useful.

The four themed posters include Greenwhich Mean Time, Emoticons, Print Sizes and Metric Conversion information and are available in A0, A1 and A2 sizes exclusively from www.print-process.com

Inspired Ingenuity is challenging artists, musicians and other creative talents to take the everyday and turn it into something special. A winner will be picked each month, and the final winner will win a trip to Cuba. The title of the project - Inspired Ingenuity - is a reference to the spirit of the people of Havana, who pride themselves on their ability to create what they need from what they have. Find out more on their Facebook page.

Eight:48

To mark the third issue of newspaper, Eight:48, Robert Hanson and Leterme Dowling collaborated on a poster to be given away with the first 200 newspapers sold. The poster was folded down and sent out with the issue, but there are also a limited number available to buy flat and tubed from Counter-Print and Counter-Objects.

The poster is a more detailed depiction of Issue 03’s cover, is £17 and is printed on Chromolux with 3 specials, including a Pantone silver.

Studio Mister

We were fortunate to get one of these awesome posters through the post from Mike at Studio Mister t’other week. It is absolutely a thing of beauty, and if there’s any left, snap one up. Delicious work.

Hyperquake

We got sent this fantastic poster from the chaps at Hyperquake recently; it is just sublime. If you can’t get your hands on one, then you can use their wallpaper-generator tool to create your own environment. Terrific stuff.

Ben Prescott // World Cup wallchart 2010

This World Cup wallchart is so nice, we got two posts about it in the inbox. Ben Prescott designed this excellent wallchart for this summers festival of football in South Africa, that you fill in yourself as the tournament progresses. Ben tells us, “The chart features a bespoke ‘Subbuteo’ scoreboard typeface as well which I have drawn up based on original sources. They are available to buy on my site and on Counter Objects and are a limited edition of 500, printed one colour onto 5 different coloured 100gsm stock, 100 of each colour.”