"Keyboard Cat, Rebecca Black, Diet Coke and Mentos; we've all watched the viral videos. Capitalizing on that popularity is artist Stefan van Zoggel -- by simplifying a handful of the hilarious, embarrassing and often horrible memes from the world wide web, van Zoggel has turned used-to-be internet trash into artistic treasure.

Van Zoggel started a series of "Meme Movie Posters" by using the clips that entertain us most as inspiration for sophisticated, minimalistic posters. The posters could easily be mistaken for Saul Bass' work if you weren't one of the more than 3,900,000 views on "Two Girls, One Cup".

In an email conversation with The Huffington Post, van Zoggel said the minimalist aesthetic behind the posters was more compelling than a detailed account, using the example of "Fenton" where only the end of the leash and the leg of the running man is in view.

"It would be a challenge to use as little as possible to tell a story, distilling things as far back as possible," he said.

Van Zoggel is a London-based creative and graphic designer. Though he is a full-time employee at populist creativity organization DLKW Lowe, he has his hands in a variety of projects including advertising company Ritson & van Zoggel with his pal Neil Ritson, and his own endeavors, like the meme posters.

So far, Zoggel has created 29 posters ranging from the G-rated "I Like Turtles" zombie kid to the graphic "The Angriest Guitar Player in the World," though he said his work is not finished.

"These are some personal favourites, some of the biggest ones, some of the most controversial ones, but this shouldn't be the end of the project," Zoggel said, adding that people are welcome to suggest memes by sending him a tweet. "It's fascinating how they become such a big hit in no-time."

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"Traditional postal service might seem alien in a world where people can communicate using holograms, but mixing futuristic and old-school ideas inspired graphic artist Stefan van Zoggel to create his Star Wars stamps.

“The collision of the sci-fi futuristic world of Star Wars and the old, traditional world of postage stamps back in the day is what excited me about this project,” van Zoggel said in an e-mail to Wired about his series of arty stamps. “It wouldn’t be as fun to just make droid holograms, or even stamps with random Star Wars images on [them]. I like the fact that they look like they were used a century ago to send post to another planet.”

To that end, van Zoggel, who gained web fame in February for his Meme Movie Posters, has created stamps that appear to originate in the many worlds in the Star Wars universe. Want to send a postcard from the Dagobah system to Coruscant? There’s a stamp for that. The stamps’ values are based on the Galactic Credit Standard, and — perhaps best of all — R2-D2 is the postmaster.


Van Zoggel, whose day job is as a creative for DLKWLowe ad agency in London, said he doesn’t have official plans to offer the Star Wars stamps for sale the way he did with his meme movie posters (which are currently available here). But he said he would consider a limited run of posters of all the stamps together. (At-reply or direct message him on Twitter if you’re interested.)

Check out the stamps in the gallery above and consider what it would be like if your mail were handled like it was by the lake on Naboo."

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A variety of posters I designed. I don't like to use one style, but rather try out different styles and techniques.

I came up with this concept when I was sat in a park on a sunny day plucking strings of grass out of the ground. I go around London parks and pluck a bunch of grass which I later lay out in the shape of that park.

If there are any photographers or artist who want to collaborate on this project with me please get in touch.

Various experiments in hand made typography made with Pieter Konickx (apart from 'Devil Inside' project).