$ Brazilian Real redesign $

Until 2012 the Central bank of Brazil will give currency to redesigned notes of Brazilian real. Planned since 2003 this is the first renewal after the substancial monetary reform that introduced the present-day currency in 1994. Embossed and graphically improved the new notes keep up with international standards and favour recognition, inclusively for visual deficient individuals. Different in sizes – the bigger the value, the bigger the bill – the reformulated currency also counts with a metalized band to raise another barrier against falsification. Colors were maintained and the ilustrations – animals of the brazilian fauna – were redimesioned in favour of a clearer visualization. Notably following an european trend, the preview of the tupiniquim version are to be released already this year. The first models that will star this new collection are the notes of R$ 50 and R$ 100. Check out the other exemplars that will be launched during the next two years and give your impressions.

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Hidden posters of Notting Hill Gate Tube station & La Muette – Paris

When the old elevators were deactivated at Notting Hill Tube Station in West London to be replaced by escalators in around 1959, the passageways to the lift were boarded up. During recent renovations at the station, the disused gallery was opened and fragments of a forgotten past were brought out: workmen discovered an array of 1950s posters and advertisements, specifically 1956-59, preserved on the corridor´s walls. From “The Horse’s Mouth” starring Alec Guinness to Victor Galbraith poster for London Transport, these treasures of graphic design show the style of art developed during the fifties, keeping art deco movement features, free from the strident propaganda produced in the course of World War II. For while, advertisers and designers will have to suffice their curiosity with a set of photos of the hidden surprises taken by the design and heritage manager for London Underground, Mike Ashworth, once the gallery they were found in is inaccessible to the public for now. (mais…)

The MICHAL BATORY’s amazing posters.

Follower of the great Polish Poster School, MICHAL BATORY is one of the most remarkable exponents among contemporary graphic designers. Born in socialist Poland, in 1959, he has radicated himself in France since 1987. Batory was highly influenced by important figures that recuperated and renewed the polish poster tradition, its aesthetics and richness of details, in opposition to the shadowy “socialist realism”, enforced in postwar Poland to serve strictly political and pro-Soviet propaganda purposes. Polish graphic design developed a way out during the 1950’s, an intelligent and inventive language capable of leading the public view and judgment beyond the limits imposed to personal freedoms. Artists like Henryk Tomaszewski inspired this metaphorical language that Batory makes use, which requires attention and provokes contemplation and abstraction, setting up a dialogue between the graphic designer and his public. Famous for his works for theatre companies, especially le theâtre CHAILLOT, he is also celebrated for the instigating use of the human body in his posters. With a good pinch of Surrealism à la Magritte and making a clever use of an innovative typography, Michal Batory has developed his own style, which can be elucidated as an irrecusable invitation to reflection. (mais…)

“Portraying a country in the shape of a man heading a ball is a new idea with potent symbolism. For me, football is all about emotion and passion, which is why I was particularly attracted to this poster”. With this words, the FIFA President, Joseph S. Blatter, explained his impressions about the official 2010 FIFA World Cup poster. Designed by the South African agency Switch, that also created the 2010 FIFA World Cup emblem, the work exalts the pride of a whole continent.

From the first Official World Cup poster, released in 1930, designed by the uruguayan artist Guillermo Laborde, to emblems and mascots, it´s possible to “travel” and to perceive the periods, contexts and features of the countries that hosted the tournament during its eighty years of existence.

Ke Nako – It´s Time

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