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Ty Mattson Speaking at CBU

This week I will be speaking at Cal Baptist University in Riverside. The event is open to the public so feel free to come out.

Dexter Season 6 Poster

The Dexter Season Finale aired tonight, and here is my Season 6 poster! The limited first edition silkscreeen print is available here on the Showtime website.

Some details below.

Mattson Creative Christmas Party

 

A few pictures from the Mattson Creative Christmas party in Vegas. Merry Christmas!

Judging the 2012 HOW Poster Competition

I was honored to be asked by HOW Magazine to judge their 2012 Poster Competition. I reviewed hundreds of entries and saw a lot of really great work. It was hard to just choose 10 entries, but the posters below are the best of the best. Congratulations to the winners.

The Old Spice series of posters immediately stood out as the best in show. In my opinion, the best posters are the ones that do the most with the least, and this is a great example of that. No copy and one color with simple, unexpected and intriguing visuals. This is simply a brilliant series.

Designers: Landor, Cincinnati: Gerhard Koenderink, Joe Napier, Jay Hoffman, Jeff Maurer, Barbara Carlotta, Jens Martesen, Stacey Dunaway

This series was striking; a fantastic illustration that is bold and balanced. I couldn’t look away.

Designer: Graham Erwin Design, Columbus, OH

 

I thought this was genius. I loved that the designer took the environment into consideration when creating this poster. This print challenges your conception of how to see and what to look at. The result is astounding. A smart solution, that smacks of Saagmeister. Bravo.

Designer: Boyce McClellan

 

 

This print immediately caught my attention. Bold overlapping color and the graphic hand and eyes are striking and seem to play perfectly off of the title, “Beast in a Neon Cage.” As with many posters, all of the type creates an unnecessary distraction, but I loved the vibrant nature of the poster overall.

Designer: Jon Wong, Hillsborough, CA

 

There isn’t anything I don’t love about this print. Great illustration. Incredible use of two-colors. Amazing texture. Beautiful type. Perfect.

Designers: Camp Firebelly: Alysha Balog, Annabelle Choi, Arjun Harrison-Mann, Colin Denney, Jince Kuruvilla, Lindsay Kaser, Mandi Smith, Monica Ray, Raphael Alexander Cala, Skye McNeill

 

A great poster will make you stop in your tracks. The combination of bright colors, bold illustration, and clever text make this poster a print a success. I’d hang this in my office.

Designers: FAME: Bruce Edwards, Eric Weiss, Chelsea Brink, Chris Yocum

 

Loved this self-promotional piece from FAME exploring the mechanics of creativity. It’s hard to be smart and funny. This concept is both humorous and well executed. I love compilation illustrations like this that invite a viewer to engage and explore all of the creative details of the print.

Designers: FAME: Bruce Edwards, Erik Herberg, Kara Connolly

 

This is another great example of a poster solution that forces the viewer to engage, look harder, and “discover” the concept. A strong idea that is as smart as it is simple.

Designers: FAME: Bruce Edwards, Erik Herberg

 

A perfect balance of simple and complex, this print is intriguing.

Designers: Kate Thomas & Dave Whitley

Bold and bright, this series is eye-catching and fun.

Designers: Johnny Two Tone Club: Marcus Taylor, Ben Hagley, Leah Dent, Duncan Roylance, Angela Mitchell, Michelle Leslie, Brendan Hibbert, Dan McKeating, Bec McKeating

Mattson Creative in Visual Storytelling

With offices in Berlin, London, New York and Tokyo, Gestalten is renowned for publishing more than 400 books that document and anticipate vital movements in design, illustration, architecture, and typography as well as urban and contemporary art. We’re excited that they asked us to be a part of their new book, Visual Storytelling: Inspiring a New Visual Language. We just received a copy in the mail and it is really an inspiring collection of work. We feel very honored to be included!

A quick description of the book: Visual Storytelling uses graphic design, infographics, illustration and photography to convey information in the most elegant, entertaining and informative way. Today, a new generation of designers, illustrators, data journalists and graphic editors is expanding the creative scope of existing visual storytelling techniques – meeting the formidable challenge of extracting valuable news, surprising findings and relevant stories from a daily flood of data head on.

Pick up the book here.