Thanks to io9, we just discovered artist Justin van Genderen‘s minimalist takes on planets and places of the original Star Wars Galaxy. While the vintage graphic design trend is nothing new, and in fact, Zazzle created a series of Star Wars WPA-inspired travel posters last spring, it’s also something that we never tire of (please see: 10 Best TV Shows of the Decade as Minimalist Art or Popular Websites as Vintage Books). Our inner Stars Wars geek wishes that van Genderen had included Coruscant and Naboo in his series, but he had over 450 fictional planets to choose from. We’ll forgive him this time.
View more of his travel posters after the jump.
Comments (15)
yawn…
Where can I buy these?
God is in the details. ANYONE can copy a style, but the typography itself is just plain shoddy here. Does anyone know how to track or kern type anymore or is it just all flashy graphics? The giant spaces in between the “TAT” in TATOOINE is just atrocious.
since when did the internet become such a bitch-fest?
if you don’t like it, turn off the computer and go outside.
CB – “track” and “kern?” You are a complete loser.
Hey MT, if you don’t like reading people’s opinions then you should be the one turning off your computer and going outside.
Hey BF, do you even know what tracking and kerning are? If you had any design or typography skills you wouldn’t call anyone a loser for caring about the basics. Go back to “creating” a PowerPoint presentation for your boss.
Since the beginning of it’s inception. Where the fuck have you been?
I think the autor has INSPIRED too much on this work:
http://simoncpage.co.uk/blog/2009/10/01/international-year-of-astronomy-2009-posters/
By the way the original from Astronomy year is much better
Ha ha ha CB – you so funny. Yes, you are right. I don’t know that stuff because I don’t work at Kinko’s with you on the midnight shift.
whats the point?
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Oooh, those Astronomy year posters are nice!
I also found these Star Wars inspired posters in a very similar vein, don’t know who came up with the concept first: http://www.zazzle.com/starwars/posters
BF- why would you say someone that’s interested in typography works at Kinko’s? Not to insult anyone who works there, we all have to make living, but I think it is you who works a minimum wage job somewhere. I work at a very high end agency (I can guarantee you that you’ve seen some of my work in a magazine, on a bus or billboard or on the web… and yes, I make A LOT of money) and anyone worth their salt as a graphic designer lives and dies by details such as tracking and kerning. If you aren’t interested then you shouldn’t comment. I have to agree here, the letters are horribly typeset, especially in TATOOINE and HOTH. You could fly a Millennium Falcon through there, the letters are so tracked out randomly!
I’m not a high-end graphics designer, and even I can tell the spacing is off on Tatooine, the one I would have been interested in getting, or giving as a gift…
Cool idea, like Endor the best. Check out Steve Thomas’ Star Wars Travel Posters, [link]http://stevethomasart.blogspot.com/2010/10/vintage-star-wars-travel-posters.html[/link]
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