Hat-Trick Design has created a beautiful set of 11 metre high illustrations of the greatest players in Rugby for the hotel at the Twickenham stadium, these images are displayed in the connecting atrium between the hotel an the stadium. The images are made up of individual Rugby shirts using the appropriate colour for that players nationality. The illustrations are printed onto the shirt material commonly used in Rugby this adds to the branding that Hat-Trick Design have already applied to the stadium visit their website for more details.

The above poster is extracted from our ephemera archive.

Karmarama have recreated the Lord kitchener war time poster into a recruitment for the mustard lovers of the world, More at CR Blog

Here we feature Jennifer Kennedy’s beautifully crafted anti smoking cigarette cards in association with ASH – 2008 

Abi Williams is the current Creative Director and founder of Rude. The studio established a successful fashion label back in the early Noughties, at the same time becoming one of the originators of a hand drawn aesthetic that is often imitated today. A refusal to be tied to any one medium has led to a varied and interesting career, allowing Abi to apply her ideas and trademark style to everything from products to music videos. Read the full profile here.

We’ve been busy working on a new campaign at True North, designed to encourage the public to ‘take another look’ at the National Portrait Gallery. Research shows that people are often pleasantly surprised by a visit to the NPG and the diversity of it’s collections.

It challenges the perception of the gallery as an old fashioned building, filled with dusty old paintings. The gallery actually represents an accurate, up to date and often surprising ‘portrait of the nation’.

We deliberately chose a diverse range of sitters, from Lord Kitchener to Lily Allen, and unearthed surprising facts about each person…

For instance, Lord Kitchener was a great war leader who famously recruited thousands of soldiers. Surprisingly, he also developed a pattern for seamless socks. It is also little known that Lily Allen trained as a florist before her pop career blossomed.

I think the next one is my favourite poster. Did you know that Prince Charles has a fascination for illusion? being excepted into the Magic Circle after performing the cup and balls trick.

By communicating these surprising facts and stories, we asked the viewer to ‘take another look’, challenging any preconceived ideas they may have about the sitter or the Gallery and it’s content.

There are many more featured sitters to roll out over the next two years. You can see some more examples in the Daily Mail, the Times and read more on Lily Allen’s official website.

Chicago International Poster Biennial Finalist – Hilpaa Hyrkas, Finland. Found on Design Observer.

A large directory of typographic posters here well worth a look