Brian Paul Nelson – Branding / Design / Illustration">Brian Paul Nelson

Im excited to announce that the new Atlas Store is now open and ready for business! The store has been in planning for awhile, but it’s finally here with 5 different prints that are ready to be shipped out and hung on your walls. Im running the site through Big Cartel which is a platform for a simple shopping cart for artists. From the beginning it has been nothing but pleasant to work with and makes for an easily updatable and customizable store with many options that allow it to run how I want it too.

For the opening, Im releasing 2 new prints, Pinnacle Peaks and Nordic, both of which are below and can be purchased at the store.

• Pinnacle Peaks

• Nordic

Visit the Atlas Store.

I love when I come across design that utilizes photography, illustration and type so well. These awesome vintage Porsche posters still hold strong today, I just wish some of their cars still looked like the ones here — especially that top one, with the numbers and all. The warm color palette along with the diagonal layout of certain elements really evoke speed and energy, which says a lot about the type of cars Porsche produced during the time these were created. Would love to have one of these up on my wall.

Check out the larger versions and more at Pelican Parts.

With the Olympics about to begin, I had to post these amazing posters from the 1972 Munich Games designed by German Designer Otl Aicher. He is best known for being the lead designer of the ’72 Olympic Games which was completely branded without compromising to the core philosophies of design. The whole campaign would be just as successful today as it was almost 40 years ago. Not to mention, you can’t beat the layouts, type and color combinations above, they are so on point with each other. Now days it has unfortunately come down to things like this, this and this, which falls really short when you begin to compare. Recently is just seems like the designs have been pushed out the door once a mediocre concept has been determined. So unfortunate.

View the posters above along with more from the ’72 Games at Blanka, where you can also purchase some of the originals, at a hefty price of course. Check out more Otl Aicher and Olympic goodness at this flickr set as well.

This is what I arrived home to today — a beautiful 18×24, limited edition screen print from the nice and talented guys over at Delicious Design League. The amount of work that this duo puts out is insane. Most of their work are screen printed posters and art prints that you can purchase at really affordable prices, however, they also design for other mediums as well. Definitely worth checking out and grabbing a few prints.

Eat…sleep…design. Devotion to the craft. It’s always nice seeing others so dedicated.