Tarik Mikou is a 33-year-old graphic designer from Montreal. I came across him in a few places all at one time and thought I’d share his work. About half of his work consists of smart designs for CD/DVD’s and posters for a variety of artists and musicians. Then, we have these wonderful modifications and coloring of classic black and white celebrity portraits of classic Hollywood royalty like Alfred Hitchcock, Marilyn Monroe, and Audrey Hepburn. These re-stylings are done under a body of work, hailing back to youth, that he calls ‘Be A Kid Again.’

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For your Saturday inspiration this weekend, some badass vintage atomic themed comic covers, mostly from the 1950’s and 1960’s. These are prat of the collection of the Oak Ridge National Lab’s Associated University collection. You can see them all after the cut.

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The other night, I stumbled onto the work of Mike Lemanski, a 20-something graphic designer and illustrator from the UK. His use of type in various forms (even in negative space) is simply sensational. Also, I’m really drawn to the way he uses color to accentuate what his work is conveying; however, there isn’t any rhyme or reason to it. Below you’ll find some of my personal faves from his vast portfolio. You can check out his site at mikelemanski.co.uk or his blog at everythingisinthepast.blogspot.com.

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I came across the website of a badass little bookstore in Tokyo called Totodo, that specializes in vintage design books, posters, and magazines. They’ve scanned a majority of the covers to their website where they can be purchased. I was seriously content with just browsing (there goes an hour of my life.)

You can see more of these at their site totodo.jp and you can visit their store at Dai 2 Villa Aoyama 101, 5-7 Uguisudani-cho, Shibuya-ku in Tokyo.

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Imagine what you could do if you steal away some of the hottest technology from today, travel back to the mid 1970’s, rework it, and then market it. That’s what Alex Varanese has done with these series of totally rad anachronistic graphics that are, essentially, marketing lit for today’s tech dropped 35 years before its proper time. Here’s the whole series. You can also see them on his Behance here.

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Barcelona based designer Emil Kozak does so pretty awesome work; however, of particular note is his badass skateboard designs. Some of his clients include the legendary Element Skateboards, LAB, Flow, and Instant Winner. On top of all that, he’s also done apparel design for Vans and case designs for Dell Computers. Check out more of his great work on his size, emilkozak.com, and after the cut.
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Long regarded as some of the highest quality DVD’s available, the Criterion Collection is also known to release DVD’s with fantastic box art. For your Saturday design inspiration, here are 58 of the coolest Criterion Collection DVD box covers. Also, Criterion has recently started selling access to a limited number of films they have remastered via their website, Criterion.com. If you have time to kill this weekend, check out some of their releases or just browse through the over 500 films they’ve re-released done over the last 10+ years (they’ve posted trailers to all of their films as well.)

Enjoy this collection of my personal favorites!

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