…and then some. So it appears a lot of people are very taken by not only Barney’s Awesomeness motivational poster (probably my most popular post to date was just about what the poster said …which in case you missed it is: “When I get sad, I stop being sad and be awesome instead. True story.” ) from How I Met Your Mother (great season so far, btw.), but also by his whole collection of motivational posters. But for now, as promised here is all you will ever want to know about the awesomeness poster.
The awesomeness poster from Barney’s office did come with the Season 2 DVD if you buy it at Target. I haven’t been able to find one there in quite some time, but that’s the only official release I know of. 
I should also offer thanks to howimetyourblog.com for the proof, story and photo.
I’m glad we can get a hold of the real thing right? Well for me it’s not that simple. This poster looks decent size but I love big poster…maybe it’s just me though. To the point, I have read and searched quite extensively on the subject, and from what I can tell this is pretty much an exclusive deal with Target. It would be nice if they had several different of Barney’s motivational posters, but I figure they either have it planned for the future (for info on all the posters’ check out Barney Stinson Office Poster Collection) or they have no plans whatsoever do do anything more with them. Also, I am not totally sure about the actual size of the poster that comes with the DVD.
If you want about the closest thing you can find on the net try out the poster in the beawesomeinstead store and grab one there. I originally started with an original fan version of the awesomeness poster. It’s quite large and awesome as a poster but to be nice, I also made up some desktop wallpapers. They are decent so feel free to partake: 1027.768, 1152.864, 1280.960, 1600.1200.
Also… I feel the need to start a conspiracy theory. So what we know for sure is that the Awesomeness poster is first mentioned in Season 1 Episode 17 (Life Among the Gorillas) of HIMYM. And when it is mentioned Barney motions to either the back left corner of his office behind his desk. We also know that the poster makes it first “on screen” appearance in Season 3 Episode 1 (Wait For It…) (..stop waiting that was the name of the episode, sheesh) and at this time it is behind Barney’s desk to the right of the center of the room. So he just moved his posters around right? Wrong.
If you take a look at not only episode 1.17 but also Season 1 Episode 21 (Milk) you will see so full shots which I will post below. Check them out and let me know what you notice .
Let me point out a few things. First, in the area Barney pointed, the awesomeness poster is not there. Behind his desk there is no poster with the F-16 jet we saw in season 3 or the correct number of letters for the word “Awesomeness.” It can’t be on the wall to the left of Barney because as you ca see there is just a huge set of windows. Was there even an awesomeness poster is Season 1…or just the mention of it. It seems to me that, as they do sometimes, fans made such a deal out of it that they threw it in in Season 3 as a great gag. Does this mean that all of Season 1 was a lie? Well… actually yes, it is a TV show remember? Sheesh, you all take this way to serious…
Thanks for reading. Thoughts and comments are welcome! …If you’re still here then that means you haven’t been to the store yet! So yet check out the Be Awesome Instead Store for the Awesomeness Posters and others!
*slight update – Since I get a lot of questions on it I have researched and released the definitive work with as much detail as I could find on the complete Barney Stinson Office Poster Collection. True Story.
Wow! What a write up! Thanks for all the information and the link love.
I was hoping to email you but, can’t find an email address on your site. Shoot me an email to the email address supplied with this post.
Oh, and War Eagle!
Ben,
Thanks so much for the comments and returning the link love! I’ll be posting an email address in my about section shortly.
War Eagle all the way!
I’m so glad someone made an awesomeness poster! I’d be interested in ordering it if it were smaller. Would you consider making a smaller version? I’d like to have one small enough to hang put on my desk at work.
Marie,
Thanks for your comments! I’ll work on one and put it up in the next few days…I also thought about doing a mousepad…Thoughts?
I made one too:)
@ patrick
Nice. Did you make on like the original or using a different photo/ slogan?
can someone finish this one needs only the text
http://massmirror.com/e398ba7b87a65bc984e3a9e8cd0c8b25.html
not a bad poster. I could easily Photoshop it but the quality seems low. The size is large enough for a big poster however it’s only in 72 dpi….I wouldn’t print anything less than 200 dpi (and that is pushing it). After you convert it to 300 (or 200 dpi) it about the same size as the one lazurie has on flickr.
Thanks though.
The original jet picture available exclusively on iStockphoto has at it’s largest size available a 206.8 dpi image that is 8×10 inches large. The largest poster I’ve been able to make without converting the image to a larger dpi is 12×17. Like aaron says, the image quality goes downhill quickly if you try to make it any larger.
I’ve tried to make several sizes of this image (5×7, 8×10, 11×17, 12×17 so far) on my Flickr page for folks to use but a truly large poster is just not possible. Sorry folks.
Hi,
I have a guestion to you guys, does anyone of you know what the text under the penguins says?
Maybe: …. “It´s the one who is different who is left out in the cold”.
please help me
thx
@ Lazaire
Thanks for the confirmation man.
@Packfriend
The Penguin poster is for Conformity and does in fact say “It’s the one who is different that gets let out in the cold”…I have actually seen it somewhere… if you find it before I do please post some info here!
Thanks for visiting.
I would like to buy this poster. Does anyone know where I can purchase it?
Over 2,000 views later and someone finally wised me up to the fact that I was spelling his name as Barney Stinton in the smaller Awesomeness posters. That’s been fixed now. Sorry folks.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/luzaire/sets/72157602499940050
And Amstar, feel free to download any of the pictures on my flickr page and print them out at your favorite digital picture printer. (i.e. home, local photo place, Wal-Mart, Walgreens, etc.)
If you want to print the big 12×18 poster that looks the most like the original on the show you will need to find someone capable of printing a large poster size, like QOOP.
Luzaire….
You are totally the man… really. I did go ahead and put one like the original up on cafepress…had to save up for the resale license from iStockphoto…maybe I’ll break even. lol….By the way, sorry that your comment has been stuck in my spam queue for almost a week now!
Has anyone put together a poster or desktop wallpaper for the Conformity penguins? A link to the .jpg would be awesome. Thanks a lot!
Danny… Try this out: the Conformity Motivational Poster
that last picture quite clearly says perfection under the jets
@frenzal….your right it does… but there is more the the story…I don’t’ want to give too much away but it’s coming soon.
I was speaking to my friends recently about this and one of my friends swears by his life that the poster actually says “When I get sick I stop being sick and be Awesome instead. True story.” He believes this as in one of the episodes Barny gets sick and apparently says “I never get sick! When I get sick I stop being sick and be Awesome instead”.
Just thought I’d throw that out there and though you might wanna see if you could find the ep. and check this out.
I agree with Nick, quite certain that he is right. I’ve been using this since I heard it. Every time someone I know gets sick, I tell them to stop being sick and instead to be awesome.
@Nick and Brett.
Yes he says it in an episode… it’s a very cool saying, I use it all the time as well…however it is not what is on the poster. The poster saying uses “sad” and not “sick”. Barney says the quote with “sad” in an earlier episode than the “sick” quote plus the “teaser poster” that came with the Season 2 DVD said sad.
Sad? Sorry… thank for visiting and your thoughts!
I found a bit of text under the poster of the four hands holding on to each other which says ‘Teamwork’.
I believe the text says: The chain is only as strong as the weakest link. I’m dutch, so not that good at recognizing english text. Maybe you can make out more?
Resources:
http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t117/cowboyhd/MenOnTV/Shows/HIMYM%20-%20S03E01/HIMYM-3×01-37.jpg
http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t117/cowboyhd/MenOnTV/Shows/HIMYM%20-%20S03E01/HIMYM-3×01-36.jpg
I also found a couple of other posters on that image, namely:
Greatness (without pic visible and unreadable text)
Discovery (with a picture of a sailing ship, but again unreadable text)
Challenge (with a picture of a rock wall climber; i can recognize the words ‘find a way’ in the text)
I hope it helps.
@ Floor
You beat me to the punch by a few days. Here is a post detailing as much info as I coudl find about the Barney Stinson Office Poster Collection. True Story.
Hey!
Nice to see you putting so much thought into it^^ I loved “how i met your mother” when I was in the US, and it REALLY sucks to live in Germany w/o it -.-
Thanks a lot for posting the flickr link, I printed that poster in 8.5×11 and now it’s hanging on my wall. Actually I bought the “Bro Code” book, too, but that wasn’t that funny… on TV it’s better.
To all those who can: enjoy the show! It’s really great, you can’t imagine how much I miss it…
Take care
Dorian
@Dorian, sorry your “mother” situation is so grim. Hopefully you can find a way around that…
I thought that the Bro Code was funny, but like you are saying, once you have seen Barney live it on the show then the book pales in comparison.
Keep coming back, I’ll try to keep you up to date!
What happened to the store? It gives an error message now!
@T-Bucket …looks to be working from this end. If you still can’t get it to work please let me know!
Huge fan of both How I Met Your Mother and Barney in particular. Got to love that he has our Teamwork Rowers poster among others.
I have an awesomeness wallpaper on my laptop. My brother is a blackhawk pilot in the army and I am wondering if you could make an awesomeness wallpaper with a UH- 60 Blackhawk helicopter. That would be awesome if you could! Thanks
sure thing Matt… find me a pic of one of those choppers. I’ll email you too.
according to me nick is right
that’s great but according to the poster on the show (and confirmation from a show source) Nick had great intentions and thoughts, but was wrong. =)