The National Poster Retrospecticus is a collection of hand printed event posters from artists, designers, and events around the country. This year, the tour is coming back--and bigger than ever, featuring over 300 posters from more than 75 artists travelling to seven cities across the US. We posted a scedule and some of last year's posters to whet your palette, so be sure to check 'em out (and maybe consider donating).

The Chaos Crew tattoo studio is well known in Munich and far beyond its city limits. They developed a poster that impressively shows the bavarian tattoo artists’ skills: just as tattoo motives tell countless stories, they interwove the most important events of 2011 into one huge tattoo. History was tattooed onto calfskin to promote the art of tattooing in its most authentic form – on real skin.

As evidence by Nintendo and Super Mario Bros, any bit of information can be processed through 8-bit graphics and be highly legible. It worked for Zelda, Mike Tyson, and Bases Loaded, and now it works for Hollywood, thanks to this 8-bit movie poster project by Eric Palmer. Jurassic Park, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Kill Bill, all here. And you can order a print for yourself on Palmer's Behance profile.

Five years ago, I got myself in a bet to reach Mike Tyson (through 12 fighters) in Mike Tyson's Punch-Out without being hit by a challenger (sans Game Genie). That means no Glass Joe, King Hippo, Bald Bull, etc, could hit me. I succeeded, and promptly lost to Tyson in about 30 seconds. Now, there is a poster to show my achievements.

After Barry McGee, Steve Powers, and Todd James created the standout update of Street Market at MOCA's Art In the Streets exhibition, SF-based McGee created a commemorative poster for the event. And, as you can see, it deals with graffiti as a topic.

As we noted last week, Banksy was to release a poster at this past weekend's Bristol Anarchist Bookfair, with the subject matter being about the recent Tesco riots in Bristol. Our England correspondent, Butterfly, headed to Bristol to check out the commemorative souvenir poster and the sights.

There is always a good story associated with a Banksy project, and the Bristol artist has just released a new print for the Bristol Anarchist Bookfair that occurs this Saturday, May 7, 2011. All proceeds for the print go to the Peoples Republic of Stokes Croft and associates.

A lot of people are looking forward to the motion picture adapation of Japanese author Haruki Murakami's classic novel Norwegian Wood, being released this March, 2011. We are excited for the original score by Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood, some others are excited because this is like the Japanese Catcher in the Rye turned visual, and budding designers are excited because Don't Panic has created the Norwegian Wood Poster Competition. More after the jump . . .