30+ Creative and Inspiring Poster Designs

August 10, 2010 - 27 CommentsWritten by Alec Lynch

Poster design gives a fantastic canvas for creativity. Like web designs, posters offer great scope for creativity and innovative graphic design. Posters are often created for DJs, events, nightclubs and other interesting subjects that lend themselves well to creative design work. This article is aimed to provide you with some great examples of inspiring poster design and creative graphic design in general.

In addition to the designs below, and focusing on the topic of creativity, we thought we’d share a piece of writing from young Sydney designer (Sasha Zubac) on what creativity means to him:

Creativity killed the Design Star:

“Creativity, the pulsating orb of light that resides in the back of a designer’s mind feeding them with vision, innovation and contagious ideas. It puts reins on a wildly running imagination, giving it direction and production; making thought reality.
The degree of thought and process put into a design is what really sets it apart from the rest of the crowd. You could say that a designer’s purpose is to ignite and set off its audiences’ imaginations into a wild running frenzy.
Although, as we all know some ideas come at the click of one’s fingers, while others play a desperate game of hide and seek in the back of our minds.
Inspiration can work like the electrodes of a defibrillator, shocking and bringing back to life a once dying idea. The flow of creation can bring an evolution of thought and imagination, superseding anything concocted beforehand.”

If that didn’t get your creative juices flowing, then the 39 creative poster designs below should switch you on!

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About the Author: Alec Lynch (8 Articles)

Alec Lynch is the founder of DesignCrowd.com - a marketplace for freelance graphic designers and design contests. You can contact Alec and DesignCrowd via DesignCrowd's Twitter page.

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http://www.hombreimaginario.com Carlos
Outstanding. I was actually in need of inspiration right now :)
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http://www.designioustimes.com Adriana
Great poster designs! I love the DJ Andy Smith Poster!
http://www.webdesignkc.co.uk/ Victoria Blount
I like the eclectic style of the posters above, and the fact that you don’t need to fill a poster with information it can just have the essential bits of information and be fairly minimal.
http://monomoda.com MONOmoda
Interesting selection of posters, great typography in some of them!
http://no.ne Jim Kale
The Arihant posted is a total ripoff of ‘A Man Apart’ poster starring vin diesel.
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These Indians have not give up on stealing other people’s creative content.
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http://www.cruzine.com oliver
Cool posters. Thanks for sharing :) Like almsot everyone of them.
Creative Poster Arts – at the Edge between Art and Commerce – http://www.cruzine.com/2010/07/27/creative-poster-art/
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http://www.dchendesign.com/ Daniel Chen
Great Posters!
Creating a poster, first and foremost, is to communicate a message. That message is through the concept of One Hero. I am a fan of poster design and love designing them. It’s my philosophy is that all print and media channels are “blank canvases.” Have fun!
http://www.quickheal.co.in/ mithila bhojane
Wow,nice posting.Thanks for sharing your post with us.I am reading it first time.Felt good after reading it.Thanks Again.
http://www.fallingsquirreldesign.com Jordan Wiedbusch
There are some great designs there to look at.
A few of them that I didn’t love, but I could see how someone could as well though. I think I just enjoy the simpler ones that have a good eye flow.
http://design977.com Pusparaj
Some of them are really-really amazing.
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http://www.cgbaran.com Cgbaran
Great collection thanks
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http://www.partisanadvertising.co.nz Greg Kramer
Very inspiring.
http://www.friendsofdesign.net Karina
Some are awesome I have to admit, but I also agree that some of them aren’t extremely good,
but maybe it’s really just not my taste…
though, thanks a lot, inspiring collection!
Tif
Thanks for the inspiration. I am a graphic designer and I am always looking to broaden my horizon.
http://twitter.com/probablynotgood ProbablyNotAGoodSign
This is a pretty good mix of styles. Usually, for poster work, I prefer vector-based designs, but I have to admit that there are some pretty solid image/raster-based designs in this list.
Anonymous
The existing 30 posters are extremely creative and inspiring. And the designs and concepts of those one are really rocking. This one is really looking one of the best collection. Thanks for sharing some exceptional thing about those. This one is one of magnificent post about the exceptional poster.
Juliana okori
this is definately great work it inspires me to work harder at graphics, thanks

39 Creative Poster Designs

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