The Absurdity of Form

Love these set of posters by Monotono, designed to challenge you by showing you familiar shapes in a different context. With a minimalist aesthetic, what is taken out is as important as what is shown. They have kept with the less is more on approach on their website, I particularly like their mantra...

What is boring? Boring is the absence of a good idea. At Monotono, we believe that nobody suffers from boredom when they’re making something beautiful. And we’d rather die from exhaustion than boredom.

Architects Posters

Love these minimalist architectural posters by Italian designer Andrea Gallo aka Roosterization representing iconic architects of the twentieth century and their legendary designed buildings. To view the full set of six pop over to Arch Daily.

Philographics

London based designer Genis Carreras has created a series of minimalist posters that attempt to explain philosophical theories. All of the posters have been included in a short journal called Philographics that explain philosophy through simple design. Accompanying each image is a short descriptor of the work. You can view all of the posters and the journal on his website.

Eastside Bookshop

Mihail Mihaylov has some very interesting work on his flikr photostream including this rather nice identity for the Eastside Bookshop. The simple clean typography combined with the visual pun of two bookends as the E and the B works really well. The theme is continued on posters with simple bold graphic illustrations to get the brand across.

Star Wars Galaxy

Justin Van Genderen has created a great set of minimalist screen prints of various planets featured in the Star Wars galaxy. Available to buy from his etsy store.

Architectural Posters

Love these minimalist posters that show iconic architecture created with a modern illustrative slant, by Austrian design agency Exergian. Their website is well worth a look as they have some interesting work including a number of posters featuring geometric shapes to portray American TV programmes.

Merry Christmas

A great modernist Christmas message from Matt Jones and a perfect way to send out minimalist Christmas wishes to my family, friends and followers, have a great one.

AnotherDesignPoster

Kathy Kavan a designer from London has a real penchant for modernist design and has created a plethora of posters based on simple geometric shapes with aptly named titles like circle. Despite the simplicity of the compositions they really pack a visual punch, fantastic work. Kathy's AnotherDesignBlog also has some really interesting design and content including some great iphone and desktop wallpapers to download, well worth a look.

50 years of Brasilia

StudioMakgill an independent agency based in Brighton were invited to take part in a poster exhibition where 50 designers paid homage to the city of Brasilia and the legacy of its architect Oscar Niemeyer. Brasilia Prima, a design agency from Buenos Aires, organised the event for its fifth birthday which coincided with the 50th anniversary of the Brazilian city. The full set of these stunning posters can be viewed on their website and the beautiful A1 sized example above can be purchased directly from Blanka.

Dropyx

I absolutely love this promotional poster and brand identity created by UK creative agency six for the new German creative network Dropyx. Six design beautiful work much of which is stripped right back but the message remains very strong. On their website is an invite for the Helvetica 50 exhibition organised by Blanka that takes inspiration from the original Helvetica type manuals - great work.

Films in Black and Red

Designer Olly Moss has created a series of black and red film posters in a minimalistic style. For me these are the pick of the series as they are clever and well executed. Olly is also the man behind those stylish Video Game Classics book covers that have appeared all over the web. He clearly has a penchant for Saul Bass and clean minimal design.

Skilled Concept

Ray Sison of Skilled Concept is a renowned New York based designer and has created a number of fantastic minimalistic wine labels that are based upon the 'International Style'. He also disects his poster 'Interpretation of minimal design' on his blog, to show his creative thought process on minimalism.

Yusaku Kamekura

Yusaku Kamekura (1915-1997) is considered one of Japans finest graphic designers. His work is distinguished by its dynamic composition, visual inventiveness, colour and geometric elements. Outside of Japan, he is best-known for his posters for the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games and for Expo ’70 in Osaka. He created fantastic minimal graphics that transcended all languages and cultures.

Uwe Loesch

Love these minimalist posters in the International style by Uwe Loesch. He was Born in 1943 in Dresden, and has been living in Düsseldorf since 1958, where he studied graphic design at the Peter Behrens Academy from 1964 to 1968. After finishing his studies he worked in his own studio for social and cultural institutions, publishing companies, museums and exhibitions. In 1984 several of his posters became part of the permanent exhibition of the Museum of Modern Art New York. Loesch is a member of the AGI Alliance Graphique Internationale, the TDC Type Directors Club New York and the ADC Art Directors Club of Germany.

Basler Theater

Found this image on the Abduzeedo site and a good article on the Swiss style.

Would be interested to hear from anyone who may know the designer for this?

It reminds me of the poster recently done by Michael C. Place for Coast Modern.