Helping Haiti.

Justus Oehler from Pentagram, designed this poster for The Haiti Poster Project, which are on sale now in aid of Doctors Without Borders. The overall goal is to reach a donation level of $1 million (USD). 

Oehler based his design on seismographs. Just as Haiti was suddenly shaken by the tremors, the word Haiti is also disrupted. “I used my fountain pen to write the word Haiti disturbed by fierce seismographic squiggles.” The simple text beneath the disruption encourages the viewer to ‘Help Rebuild Haiti!’.


One Touch

The sale of this poster by Life in Abundance will further help their important cause — “[Empowering] Africa’s poor in a new way” — something that was quickly recognized by all of those involved as they donated their time and resources: design, paper, printing. Blind embossed is the sentence “One touch creates a lasting imprint on an abundance of lives,” overprinted with five maps of Africa overlaid to create one more map. A tactile and visual solution with that is the result of a lot of care and interest in both message and cause.

DESIGN CREDITSJustin Ahrens, Rule29
Donovan Beery, Eleven19
Steve Hartman, Creativille
Christine Taylor, Hallmark
Nate Voss, Vossome

This is my final typography project. We had to create an original typeface from the ground up. I chose to base my typeface on movie posters done by Saul Bass that were done for movies directed by Alfred Hitchcock and Otto Preminger. I was influenced by the title sequences by Bass done for these movies as well. I modeled this poster after Bass’s posters for Bunny Lake is Missing and Anatomy of a Murder. The graphics were taken from the title sequence for The Man with the Golden Arm. The decision for the color pallette was not difficult becasue he overwhelmingly used red, black and white. The most important aspect of Bass I wanted to capture was his abilty to have order with the unexpected. His posters were well aligned, but there was always something that broke the grid.  Also, let me explain the name that I gave it. I decided to call it Saalto. I took the first two letters form Saul and the first two letters of Alfred. Then the last two letters of Otto. I think it is very different and original, like Saul Bass.  I really enjoyed this project. I learned mounds of information from it. It showed me how involved and mutlipy faceted the process of making a typeface is. I plan on continuing to prefect it in the next couple of months and maybe even taking on another one!
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This is my final typography project. We had to create an original typeface from the ground up. I chose to base my typeface on movie posters done by Saul Bass that were done for movies directed by Alfred Hitchcock and Otto Preminger. I was influenced by the title sequences by Bass done for these movies as well. I modeled this poster after Bass’s posters for Bunny Lake is Missing and Anatomy of a Murder. The graphics were taken from the title sequence for The Man with the Golden Arm. The decision for the color pallette was not difficult becasue he overwhelmingly used red, black and white. The most important aspect of Bass I wanted to capture was his abilty to have order with the unexpected. His posters were well aligned, but there was always something that broke the grid. 

Also, let me explain the name that I gave it. I decided to call it Saalto. I took the first two letters form Saul and the first two letters of Alfred. Then the last two letters of Otto. I think it is very different and original, like Saul Bass. 

I really enjoyed this project. I learned mounds of information from it. It showed me how involved and mutlipy faceted the process of making a typeface is. I plan on continuing to prefect it in the next couple of months and maybe even taking on another one!