Graphic design 1945-1969

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3115/3223743260_e511ed6390_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3456/3227161548_cd082a0e20_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3547/3365894904_d1c33eacb4_o.jpg

http://www.adliterate.com/archives/VW_ThinkSmall.jpg

http://www.gokudo.co.jp/Record/BlueNote1/2008%2009%2014_1064_edited-1.jpg

http://www.ltmcollection.org/images/webmax/3z/i0000m3z.jpg

http://www.gokudo.co.jp/Record/BlueNote1/2008%2009%2014_1236_edited-3.jpg

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f325/caek/3227161736_f50b9409e7_o.jpg

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f325/caek/3242652218_c2a9bc7a4f_o.jpg

http://library.rit.edu/Images/posters/casey/hires/3001.jpg

http://library.rit.edu/Images/posters/casey/hires/3020.jpg

This is from 1972, but I don't care:

http://library.rit.edu/Images/posters/casey/hires/3041.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0m5ojMxgGRA/SIuGTTx2YKI/AAAAAAAAAeg/H_GGtg0aoaY/s400/FV015~Les-Vacances-de-M-Hulot-Posters.jpg

I love Josef Müller-Brockmann stuff.

http://www.citrinitas.com/history_of_viscom/images/modernism/josef-mueller-brockman-1960.jpg

http://www.toddroeth.com/class/images/35.jpg

http://papercutpanic.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/picture-1.png?w=400&h=544

http://papercutpanic.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/picture-4.png?w=400&h=538

http://papercutpanic.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/picture-3.png?w=400&h=549

http://papercutpanic.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/picture-5.png?w=400&h=542

Ooh, there's a whole flickr set here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/blankaposters/sets/72157605199393277/

akzidenz grotesk junkie

Bass for yo face

http://media.filmschoolrejects.com/images/saulbass-posters.jpg

is a bit early but my grandads work for London Transport.

http://www.ltmcollection.org/posters/artist/artist.html?IXartist=Laurence+Bradshaw

looks like the secret sundaze posters took some inspiration from josef müller-brockmann

akzidenz grotesk junkie

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, April 14, 2009 12:55 PM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark

Just a tad!

supposed former akzidenz grotesk junkie

http://www.discogs.com/image/R-329155-1097827948.jpg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/images/2008/05/27/1968mexico_400x398.jpg

wow

http://robsog.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/01/08/pelican_riddles.jpg
http://robsog.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/01/08/pelican_riddles.jpg

http://thingsmagazine.net/projects/1960s/index.htm

http://www.geocities.co.jp/SilkRoad/7152/1950koukoku/1950koukoku.html

Japanese in-train advertising from the 1950s: the Keirin/horseracing ones (set 5) are probably my favourite.

brilliant!

http://www.geocities.co.jp/SilkRoad/7152/1950koukoku/218m.jpg

Lance Wyman who did the Mexico 68 thing also did this Obama thing, which I have but have yet to get framed.

http://my.barackobama.com/page/-/external_organizing/obama_wyman_full.jpg

North By Northwest title credits:

http://static.guim.co.uk/Guardian/film/gallery/2008/nov/03/1/pail42-4754.jpg

http://www.davidthedesigner.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/02/01/futura.gif

the only one from bookcoverarchive.com that's in the right timeframe:

http://bookcoverarchive.com/images/books/god_and_golem_inc.large.jpg

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_m0YtPN5vgmI/SV9DnoEJBJI/AAAAAAAAJ7I/W9G3oXswdig/s800/to%20belgium%20by%20sabena.jpg
I bought at the flea market a free in-flight book from Sabena from this era and every page is filled with the most amazing illustrations and design. Not this exactly, but along these lines.

Futura was pretty rare post-war, wasn't it? It was designed in the 1920s.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2215/2147179043_04bd9a222b.jpg

great thread :D

lol i have that hulot poster
xp agree

whoa at Fly TWA poster!

http://grainedit.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/porsche-posters-1.jpg

^^ niiiiiice

Futura was pretty rare post-war, wasn't it? - you do see it used in A LOT of popular design from this era, though (including some stuff on this thread) - especially on paperbacks and posters. I was unaware that it was as old as the 20's. I guess I associate a lot of prewar design with Art Deco-style typefaces, but I do not profess to be an expert on the subject (even though I am a g. designer by trade lol).

I would love to read a comprehensive history of typography from the industrial age onward, if such a book exists (recommendations plz).

otto treumann

http://devkick.com/blog/i/europe/otto-treumann-poster.jpg

hans hartmann

http://www.spd.org/contest/hans_hartmann_posters1.jpg

wow i'm trying to work out how the colors in that dove work and my brain is still confused!

http://www.stankowski06.de/basis/html/Hauptpunkte/presse/bildbase/bildmat_postkarten/gross/kieler_woche.jpg

'72 but whatever

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01176/arts-graphics-2007_1176577a.jpg

Anyone know the main typeface used in that Treumann poster upthread?

speaking of:

http://grainedit.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/ospaaal-posters-1960s.jpg

no idea, pillbox, pretty dope though

saul bass matchbooks

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3120/2423199588_13e16c6696.jpg?v=0

i like the cover of this pino tovaglia book, translated as 'the rule that corrects emotion'

http://www.corraini.com/admin/tmp/files/copertine/200.jpg

wim crouwel

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2232/1621353268_9b4777da03_o.jpg

xp to Pillbox, unless I'm missing, there is no Futura anywhere on this thread except for the VW advert, which is timelessly VW rather than particularly post-war. Despite being over 80 years old, Futura was a pretty rare sight outside of VW adverts until relatively recently (like last 15 years).

http://blog.iso50.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/manifesto-nizzoli.jpg

the treumann font looks (New?) Century Schoolbook at a heavy weight, probably extra black.

none of the digitized versions seem to have CS black though : (

unless I'm missing, there is no Futura anywhere on this thread except for the VW advert, which is timelessly VW rather than particularly post-war. The small print in the IBM advert and "The Ralph M Parsons Company" is def Futura. If MIT Symphony & Riddles in Mathematics aren't they are awfully close (if not, any idea what the actual font used in those is?) as are the typefaces on the German designs. Futura was also all over pulp paperbacks from this time-period (50s mainly).

Futura was a pretty rare sight outside of VW adverts until relatively recently (like last 15 years). - I love the Futura STD series and use it regularly.

The small print in the IBM advert - definitely not Futura, look at the lower case "a".

The Ralph M Parsons Company - not Futura (look at the tops of the upper case "M", Futura's are points, those are flat)

MIT and the Penguin are both Swiss Grotesks, the Penguin is Helvetica, not sure about the MIT one. Again, look at the lower case a.

I love the Futura STD series and use it regularly.

Sure. It's everywhere now. I'm just saying it was rare in the 1950s and 60s. It's an archetypal pre-war font that has become popular again in the last few years.

pino tovaglia poster is futura (and awesome), btw.

(although it looks 1970s)

Wow, yeah, you're right: The lower-case "a" is the giveaway. You've got to admit, though, the similarities are remarkable. Any idea what the actual font on the IBM/Parsons adverts is?

It's just Helvetica or something.

There are vague similarities in the sense that futura and the grotesks are sans serif, but futura is a very distinctive geometric font ("o", bowl of "a", all curves, etc. are perfect circle sections), which is very far from true of helvetica, akzidenz, etc. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sans-serif#Classification.

Yeah, I forget about old-school Helvetica b/c I've been using Helvetica Neue for so long that that is what I picture when I think "Helvetica" these days. I'm a bit envious of your typography knowledge, caek. I should take a class or something (again, if there are any books on the subject you would recommend..)

Only started 7 hours ago, and I already feel way late to this fantastic thread.

if you can tell the difference between helvetica neue and helvetica you're doing better than me!

this is the best book about typography going: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Elements-Typographic-Style-Robert-Bringhurst/dp/0881792063. there are maybe better books to learn about the kind of typography done in the sort of advertising/artwork on this thread.

(xp)

xp This will go on for years, you know. :)

yeah, there are better threads for the type nerds to thrash this out. back to images!

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3443/3223860429_244c24e37c_o.jpg

The Blue Note album covers are a go-to, I'll just get some favorites out of the way early.

http://www001.upp.so-net.ne.jp/gako-oku/Modern.files/Dexter2.jpg

A little bit cute, but not TOO cute, you know?

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Lpkcc1bATi4/R5XrvbMNwEI/AAAAAAAAAM8/cOliCyTL1CI/s320/Horace-Parlan-Us-Three-362664.jpg

Yes.

http://bp2.blogger.com/_G9FtQLF2VFE/SA3GNC-b_LI/AAAAAAAAATU/QgJrHzrarg0/s400/cover.jpg

Yeah ok, it's better for type nerds, but this is a perfect album cover. (Helps that it's a perfect album.)

do you know this? http://www.gokudo.co.jp/Record/BlueNote1/index.htm

is there a thread for blue note sleeves? if not, there really should be. I mean those are sort of a thing unto themselves (not that they don't belong here, there are so many great ones that they could easily consume the thread)

xp Now I do. Thnks.

I think my dad had this book.

http://www.chrismasto.com/delicious/images/236

The die is plaid! Everything is plaid! What kind of a god...

http://237studio.com/images/55209.jpg
http://237studio.com/images/64168.jpg
http://237studio.com/images/49632.jpg

pirelli tires ads

xpost I think that was a hot thing when my dad was a teenager, books about how AMAZING numbers are. Because if he didn't have that book, he had ten other just like it.

xpost Whoa, those are great

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3209/2846521736_34f06c6ab7.jpg?v=0

whoa

I have used the eyedropper tool to get this exact shade of orange many times:

http://www.farmidable.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/mccallsfurref.jpg

http://www.farmidable.com/2008/11/11/how-to-books-from-the-1950s

man, book companies don't even try anymore do they

lol at futura on that 1956 gardner book. i guess i was wrong.

they do ok, xp: http://bookcoverarchive.com/

this is a book called 'henri's walk to paris' by leonore klein, illustrated by saul bass. from 1962

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1306/866660551_0f05c58ef3.jpg?v=0
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1176/866660519_76babea25a.jpg?v=0
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1285/866660529_49ebe56fd2.jpg?v=0
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2060/2083543382_3f70e72b08.jpg?v=0

'72 but whatever - if he can get away with that, I'm going to say fuck it and post this ('73) just cuz:

http://covers.fwis.com/images/items/562.jpg

So perfectly unnerving.

I dunno why I posted the jpeg upthread, when I could have just as easily posted this:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2060/2083543382_3f70e72b08.jpg?v=0

^^^short film about solar energy by saul bass

this thread is a goddamn goldmine

Not all within the specific timespan but lots are. Saves me having to put loads of Penguin covers up.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/119/308973659_3ecc693cf3.jpg
See the whole thing big here

when did tabloid newspapers (chiefly The Sun) start using Futura (Bold Condensed) for headlines?

Maurice Binder's opening titles to Arabesque

http://i5.ebayimg.com/07/i/001/2b/dc/5661_1.JPG

http://23.media.tumblr.com/oMl5Ekkoslkrg77jEwK9DrXLo1_400.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y76/pumahunt/Gebrauchsgraphik5.jpg

http://img.ffffound.com/static-data/assets/6/bf7fc0ffaf38f5954082332e56052b23573ab416_m.jpg

Fortune used to have the greatest covers ever. Now it's just bullshit CEO....

http://dropular.net/content/_fixed/8ex2fy656_3022809875_1e97bde691_o.jpg

http://dropular.net/content/_fixed/ipsa5g8mf_2965627507_2f0f0f2f15_o.jpg

http://10.media.tumblr.com/oMl5Ekkosk148ottvRs2ofGEo1_400.jpg

http://thingsmagazine.net/projects/1970s/1974%20Modern%20Economics%20-%20J.Pen.jpg

http://www.cafes.net/ditch/wilkins.jpg

http://burlesquedesign.com/mike/somuchpileup/danreisinger/09.jpg

http://crossedcombs.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/04/24/2382992574_d03bd649c6.jpg

Awesome run here ET

There's more, I just have to get some lunch!

Elvis has the stash

caek: Treumann font is Clarendon btw

The 1962 Seattle Worlds Fair is interesting as it's when the first bits of 60s-era modernism leak into the pop culture stream. Half of the fair's artifacts are 50s-era illustration and half are 60s Jet Age Modern.

Examples... This:

http://imagecache.allposters.com/images/pic/FIP/WA-00390-D%7ESpace-Needle-Seattle-World-s-Fair-Posters.jpg

versus

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3125/2899246248_c793377b23.jpg

Vintage Penguin rules so hard

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1299/570934417_3b0bcf4567.jpg

caek: Treumann font is Clarendon btw

Oh Clarendon. Talk about thin line between love and hate. Can you still think a font is attractive when it's on the side of half the buses in the city advertising Starbucks' new instant coffee? Or in the TV ad for Madea Goes to Jail? (Really there are a million examples... it's fucking everywhere. It was four years ago, but now it's really out of hand.)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2131/1779218426_ee78ebbf70.jpg

http://www.manhattanrarebooks-modernfirsts.com/images/deighton.jpg

http://wiedler.ch/download/felix/books/451_jacket.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2401/2273057639_9cb85d7b8a.jpg

Despite Shepard Fairy, Soviet poster design is still brilliant: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bpx/sets/72057594117941491/

Oh Clarendon. Talk about thin line between love and hate. Can you still think a font is attractive when it's on the side of half the buses in the city advertising Starbucks' new instant coffee? Or in the TV ad for Madea Goes to Jail? (Really there are a million examples... it's fucking everywhere. It was four years ago, but now it's really out of hand.)

I still think of Clarendon as National Park signage font. Fortunately the NPS has started switching away from it.

http://grainedit.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/citroen-brochure-2.jpg

http://burlesquedesign.com/mike/somuchpileup/danreisinger/10.jpg

http://www.productmanualarchive.org/manuals-brands/Sears/sears-8m-calculator-box-JB.jpg

http://www.earlesfork.com/PHOTOS/rely_brochure.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/184/368460509_86c62126b5.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/172/417089104_e580bd9ef5.jpg

http://www.etapes.com/files/images/cathy/auriac2.jpg

http://grainedit.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/donald-brun-poster.jpg

HEAVEN: http://grainedit.com/tag/1960s/

dopeness here: http://grainedit.com/2008/05/12/53-years-of-latvian-magazine-jauna-gaita/#more-636

I still dig Clarendon. I've been hating Algerian a ton lately though, not that they have anything to do with each other except being pretty ubiquitous.

grainedit is supreme for this sort of thing

probably worth a look
http://www.creativereview.co.uk/crblog/ken-briggs-at-pump-house-gallery/
(London exhibition)

I want to frame that calculator ad. Seriously, I do.

Oh nevermind... it's THE BOX. Even better.

Opening credits to Department S

Pretty sure the Department S logo used to be the logo for Super Valu grocery stores.

http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/traveling-culture/chau1/img/edgar/1/1.gifhttp://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/traveling-culture/chau1/img/edgar/1/2.gif

Just reminded myself of this one (warning: Blue Note cover):

http://www.orinjj.force9.co.uk/JimmySmith/pix/hi/50s/newsound/newsound1-1.jpg

I wish I could nail down what the text font is there, in the title. It's not quite Clarendon, and WhatTheFont seems confused by it. Custom job, I think.

century schoolbook?

Close. But it's close to a lot of things.

This thread is making me think/worry that innovation in typography stalled after this era, and unless some people get crazy creative in a hurry, we're all doomed to mine the past. A lot like jazz.

(The spartan limitations of internet typography don't help.)

Question for mr telecom.

This image: http://dropular.net/content/_fixed/ipsa5g8mf_2965627507_2f0f0f2f15_o.jpg

Do you know details about it? Because I'm thinking of basing a design on it, and I want to give it its due.

Question for mr telecom.

This image: http://dropular.net/content/_fixed/ipsa5g8mf_2965627507_2f0f0f2f15_o.jpg

Do you know details about it? Because I'm thinking of basing a design on it, and I want to give it its due.

Erik Nitsche is the designer. Check out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Nitsche
http://www.flickr.com/photos/eriknitsche/

for all the background.

This thread is making me think/worry that innovation in typography stalled after this era, and unless some people get crazy creative in a hurry, we're all doomed to mine the past. A lot like jazz.

I think it's very hard to popularise newer fonts tho because of the ubiquity and recognisability of the old standards.

It's good really that it's not so easy to get hold of decent stylish fonts tho (without paying).

I need to try making my own, I like creating characters/letter forms in Illustrator. Fontographer still the app of choice?

http://www.penguinsciencefiction.org/

This thread is making me think/worry that innovation in typography stalled after this era, and unless some people get crazy creative in a hurry, we're all doomed to mine the past.

not sure about this. while there was an insane explosion of font styles in the earlier part of the 20th century that i doubt we'll ever see again - the 90's had a pretty decent typography revolution of it's own. stuff like David Carson and his ilk really challenged all traditional approaches to typsetting we'd seen up until then. we did have an explosion of new phonts too with desktop publishing making it easier than ever to create your own letterforms and also the web bringing in demand for even more simplified fonts. sure, not many have/will stick around but there's definitely going to be a lasting influence on typography coming out of the digital age. maybe it's too recent for us to be truly aware of it - or how it will shape things going forward.

my thesis in college was on font styles as signifiers of overall shifts in design styles throughout the 20th century.

TCRODTT, that sounds interesting! Is it online anywhere?

I feel like with typography, it's sort of that dilemma where to some degree it's been done and perfected. Over centuries certain styles were created that became standards and for years and years and still those basic styles get tweaked. The grunge fonts era created an explosion of new ideas, but mostly faddish ones that are already dated, and in sacrificing legibility, don't seem like they'll have much legs. The type designers today are left with either subtle updates of classic forms or novelty faces. Maybe it is a question of distance...I say 90s grunge fonts are dated, but personally I'm a big fan of the sort of 50s/60s phototypesetting styles that most people have avoided for the last 30 years as cheesy, because it's easier for me to idealize and romanticize the 60s then the 90s. I'm talking about liking stuff like Banco or Brush Script, but not really caring for most of Emigre's fonts of Neville Brody's stuff. I'm sure in a few years everyone will start using Industria Inline or something. Stuff like Banco is the kind of thing lazy designers use in silly ways, but while in college I saw a copy of the original type specimen sheet and taken in it's original context and used well, it just looked awesome. I guess everything has it's place!

Personally, I'm really bad at even recognizing typefaces, and getting started with hand typesetting, I'm going to purchase just a few basic fonts and use them for everything. When I bought my type cabinet, I got a really really great deal on a large amount of Futura Demibold, so like it or not, I'm going to make that work. The guy selling it said he didn't think he'd be able to get rid of it easily. I think the people who are doing hand typesetting these days in the letterpress community seem to be really attracted to more old-fashioned serifs, wedding typefaces, display faces, etc.

ban bank gothic

I never really liked the 90's grungy-busy thing at all, even when it was new - it always felt like it was setting itself up for instant datedness, kind of like all the "computer" fonts of the 80's representing fake futureism. I've been digging a lot of the old serif fonts lately, mostly out of necessity because I deal with a lot of stuff from 16th and 17th century at my job and kind of have to design around that.

As for Banco, it will always just be "Thrasher Font" to me, just like Mistral is "NWA Font":
http://www.nebraskaskateparks.com/skateparktourEast-5-2005/norfolk/thrasher52405.jpg

I think this is the best thread there's ever been on ILX.

TCRODTT, that sounds interesting! Is it online anywhere?

nope. this was a decade ago, sorry.

A few nice bits and bobs collected here - DavideLevine's collection from Expo 1958 Brussels on flickr.

The same fellow had a huge collection of travel related graphics from the 1920s and 1930s. Amazing.

And from a link from that site I noticed this poster for a shooting festival in 1963
http://www.posterpage.ch/exhib/ex190tel/p133189s.jpg
(the site is one huge collection of posters from all over the place - well worth a look if you graphics junkies haven't already been there)

Access forbidden!

Damn - it worked yesterday. Maybe they don't like hotlinking?

http://www.alamedainfo.com/Expo_67_Pavilion_of_Ethiopia_PC_001.jpg

http://www.alamedainfo.com/Expo_67_Montreal.htm

Access forbidden!

― caek, Monday, May 4, 2009 11:11 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark

Back up now. Worth a look.
http://www.posterpage.ch/

http://blog.iso50.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Picture-32-450x645.png

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/tomasutpen/album7/mjqsherrif.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/tomasutpen/album6/californiadreaming66.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/tomasutpen/album5/garlandofred56.jpg

this guy...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/tomasutpen/album4/inventionsdimensions1963.jpg

p.s. came v. close to dropping $75 on a print of this 1993 exhibition poster

http://web.mac.com/calmuseum/iWeb/Site/Posters_files/p_cowa.jpg

all those jazz covers selected by http://tsutpen.blogspot.com/, which dom linked to on his blog. the Art of Jazz section is great, but so is the photography.

http://nevver.tumblr.com/photo/1280/137140318/1/FMjAUV0Jiplblevb9KaXW0WV

http://nevver.tumblr.com/photo/1280/139914267/1/2m8BXUfripso6ku0lUz0DCsZ

after another day of putting fake digital murk work for 'edgy' camden ponies this thread makes me ashamed and want to cry

<3 this thread

http://blog.bookcoverarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/how-children-fail.jpg

i'm unsure of what supposed to be represented there

love those opening credits. and thank you Elvis Telecom for introducing me to Erik Nitsche-- he's amazing.

not exactly sure on the dates on these:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3581/3770499564_93d2196b96.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2544/3770494886_ba40045662_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3561/3769694835_be9b038a1d.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3425/3769698885_6629681d65.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2588/3769701869_6cc4640522_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3435/3770501544_00afc3a457.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2449/3770494292_70dc5f735f.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2480/3769694279_54a553a0a7.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3480/3769689019_7cf667c66f.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3517/3769690671_9817178c22.jpg

rad

damn this thread is awesome. i love so many of these.

http://blog.iso50.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/img116-450x664.jpg

I knew this was an Elvis Telecom thread.

http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/e9/17/8751c060ada03703edb7f110.L.jpg

http://img.maniadb.com/images/album_t/224/224266_1_f.jpg

http://caffecino.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/zzzzzzzzzzzzzz31.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/tomasutpen/album7/artofsocialmobility.jpg

weird text justifying, esp with the logo so near

yah, looks like an ee cummings poem

more please!

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Mrv83QWuE8Y/SMFkn4g_eYI/AAAAAAAAAPA/3uWP6e7TQNg/s1600/the-common-sense-of-science.jpg

one of my favourite interior book designs: http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=oExswkGgz64C

fetishistic, but well done

http://simoncpage.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/4115566898_c54c93d3d2_b.jpg

probably buying those

second from left does not look like a stable system, by the way

bottom left and bottom right don't really fit with the others in terms of style. would happily get any of the others, but $40/60 is ridic imo. i know they're doing this in the most inneficient and expensive way possible, and passing on the cost, this is what i consider reasonable: http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/posters.

Heh, I did something similar on a recent flyer for our club night:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v418/Chewshabadoo/GlockSept-2-BIG-TEXT.gif

Inspired by the 'salon auto geneve' poster up the thread.

i started a new project the other week - a catalog that's all 60's/70's pop art style. fucking fun as hell (alot of work tho).

Admittedly my poster is compromised because it needed to have "impact" and too many words.

xpost

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/tomasutpen/album7/2415981549_6fd20f6ac6_o.jpg

http://www.vads.ac.uk/x-large.php?uid=92488&sos=1

http://www.vads.ac.uk/images/TEC/large/posters51.jpg

http://www.vads.ac.uk/images/TEC/large/posters105.jpg

http://www.vads.ac.uk/images/TEC/large/ephemera_048.jpg

http://www.vads.ac.uk/images/TEC/large/posters87.jpg

http://19.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktv3yx0lKV1qz6f9yo1_500.jpg

These are 1971/72, but I don't care

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2675/4166536086_e9bc4c4c48_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2800/4165778343_55262789a3_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2630/4166534342_0a70d8cc49_b.jpg

etc. http://www.flickr.com/photos/eyemagazine/sets/72157622953922638/

I intend to use this thread almost exclusively in the design of my next home

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2704/4327478926_5de0ed9952_o.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2742/4262099456_bbac90e5ba_o.jpg

(1970)

just bought two books...one really cheap and one really expensive...

they straddle the line datewise thought....

http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300102901

http://www.stoutbooks.com/cgi-bin/stoutbooks.cgi/77147.html

pics here:

http://www.typotheque.com/books/ladislav_sutnar

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4045/4402153366_774fafc043.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2738/4325025165_f8aaf2404a.jpg

1975 and 1972 respectively

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2756/4311727129_731477abba.jpg

1968

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4063/4317963885_240a5c660f.jpg

1969

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4014/4306792563_dc95f1d4a4.jpg

presumably post-1971

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4027/4401386605_ccbc66e74e.jpg

(1968)

stop me before i post the set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/maraid/sets/72157623178565935/

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2704/4338243397_f614d989d3.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2707/4333454892_8339ebe91d.jpg

1965

would wear a shirt with that concorde logo (without the stamp border or queen's head, obv)

this thread makes me realize, fuck a photoshop

lol at the giant queen's head sculpture overlooking the M4 Viaduct.

this thread makes me realize, fuck a photoshop

^truth from the heavens above!

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/09/science/space/09space.html

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/03/09/science/09space2/09space2-popup.jpg

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/03/09/science/09space4/09space4-popup.jpg

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/mags/qf/c/NationalGeographic/10-1982/xlg_3m.jpg

1982 but it feels 60s so imma put it here

http://blog.sans-concept.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/dorian_gray.jpg

1970 (i keep cheating)

also wow: http://ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com/2010/02/women-snakes-and-stalkers-south-asian.html

Elvis T, is there an archive of Fortune covers that you know of?

Caek, check out http://www.gono.com/adart/fortune/fortune_magazine_covers.htm

would wear a shirt with that concorde logo (without the stamp border or queen's head, obv)

^^^^ on this.

Threads like this make me wish that ILX could store images as I'm missing the broken links.

Agree about the Concorde logo shirt. Would def wear one. As I would a number of great images all throughout this thread. Good stuff! I still deeply regret not buying the Mexico 68 poster (posted way up top) I found in Mexico DF.

thanks ET

http://www.gono.com/adart/fortune/Fortune-1952-2.jpg
http://www.gono.com/adart/fortune/Fortune-1962-4.jpg
http://www.gono.com/adart/fortune/Fortune-1969-1.jpg

"(six articles)" about canada on the front cover. a different age, my friends.

true faith predecessor?

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4037/4469191778_8848273b0a_b.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4031/4472096997_77b94eee21_b.jpg

via http://www.flickr.com/photos/glenhsparky/tags/newyorkworldsfairguide/

I want "You meet the nicest people on a Honda" as a poster

http://www.sci-fi-o-rama.com/

amazing hi-res Crouwel archive. wish i had a good printer.

http://www.geheugenvannederland.nl/?/en/zoekresultaten/pagina/1/Wim%20Crouwel/%28cql.serverChoice%20all%20Wim%20%20AND%20Crouwel%29/&colcount=0&wst=Wim%20Crouwel

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4023/4394970130_608750000c_b.jpg

this excellent website, a spin off from the CARTOON MODERN bk, features many excellent examples of 1950s animation art, eg

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/wp-content/uploads/peregoy_g.jpg

sorry, this is the site:

http://cartoonmodern.blogsome.com/

has this site been linked yet? (on the tail end of 1969 and into the 70s and 80s, but still.)

http://bookworship.com/

http://bookworship.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/the-accidental-century-sm.jpg

http://bookworship.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/governing-education-sm.jpg

http://bookworship.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/information-mechanism-meaning-sm.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2106/4512959017_91632073f3_b.jpg

Heinz Kiessling's illustrations for Malbuchgeschichten by Ilse Firbas (Germany, 1949), http://ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com/2010/04/riot-in-coloring-book-no9.html

Anyone with any interest in this thread needs to add this to their feed reader: http://somuchpileup.blogspot.com/

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v134/tracerhand/HiddenPostersofNottingHillGateTubeS.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/36844288@N00/sets/72157624079183751/

time tunnel

Very tempted to get this:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61zSMiqqSWL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f325/caek/Carl-Friedrich-Gauss.jpg

via http://seenbooks.blogspot.com/2009/08/carl-friedrich-gauss.html

http://sammlungen-archive.zhdk.ch/media/full/81-0025.jpg

1945

http://sammlungen-archive.zhdk.ch/media/full/76-0995.jpg

1969

http://sammlungen-archive.zhdk.ch/media/full/82-0587.jpg

1969

http://sammlungen-archive.zhdk.ch/media/full/70-1889.jpg

1945

http://sammlungen-archive.zhdk.ch/media/full/51-0808.jpg

1946

this thread is such a balm to the soul. i want to live in it.

http://industrialart.industrialartifactsreview.com/images/USA_art_images/Ralston_Crawford_Fortune_1945_April_600.jpg

^ great satan or w/e

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2575/3966276532_f899626d5d_o.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE_oHJt_V5M

http://991.com/newGallery/Miles-Davis-Relaxin-With-The-464173.jpg

http://grainedit.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/sh-lammle-2.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_WntoaqMUEGs/TDtqxFRQYGI/AAAAAAAAC4E/azFJ51JNSNk/s1600/Screen+shot+2010-07-12+at+2.57.20+PM.png

http://www.aisleone.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/knoll_ads.jpg

paul rand logos:

http://thedapperdude.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/i_rand11.jpg

http://thedapperdude.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/i-rand2.jpg

aw yeah

http://swifferbroom.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Broomstick-Bunny.jpg

lol

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2381/2082759109_be01c259c7_o.jpg

http://library.rit.edu/gda/sites/library.rit.edu.gda/files/imagecache/gallery_full/bass11.jpg

saul bass logos:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_y1USaJemzSs/TGACHlDI1GI/AAAAAAAAD4I/QWeDjisZNWA/s400/Saul+bass+1.jpg
http://thedapperdude.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/sb22.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YlQQthgNTM8/TL2poSQ_zdI/AAAAAAAAAHE/5WcZb8dASxk/s1600/the_50_best_movie_posters.jpg

could do saul bass forever, but

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3323/3219839139_40b975a757.jpg

anyone else see a penis instead of curtains in the wicked witch pic?

i just looked at every image in this thread.
it just made my day.

i know this thread is supposed to be all clean, streamlined hypermodern living

but honestly it just makes me think of dusty old magazines in my grandparent's garage

weird, cuz i find these images incredibly refreshing. like they let cool, clean air into my mind, making me feel all relaxed, sensible and efficient. there's an lightness and elegance to midcentury design that i find nearly intoxicating. get the same same thing from the era's product design:

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lk0u1uma7u1qivhvio1_500.jpg
http://s8.thisnext.com/media/largest_dimension/73D4993F.jpg

well, i have a baha rocker in my living room, and while i am quite fond of it i'd never call it light or elegant ... it's actually rather bulky and awkward

a 19th century shaker rocking chair is def more "light and elegant" if you ask me

http://www.vtfurnitureworks.com/htc/chairs/lemieur_rocker.jpg

http://stores.advancedinteriordesigns.com/catalog/Rocking%20chair-1.jpg

midcentury is so played ... "found" design is where it's at

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G4ZZBXD3XVU/S1cdkQQ7kcI/AAAAAAAAFvk/LH4JnaDe3F8/s400/AmishAbstractions-cover_for_web.jpg

i love the dusty textbook vibe

midcentury is so played ... "found" design is where it's at

how is an amish quilt a "found" design?

should have a thread for fabric/textile designs i suppose (or "found" design or w/e)...

Wtf Amish quilt, next you'll be talking about putting bird feathers in your hair

i'm just kidding about "found" design, but in all seriousness it's a term that i've seen thrown around blogs when talking about folk design / naive design that mirrors modernism

i realize it's at least as loaded and patronizing as talking about naive art or outsider art

looks dope http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0956356281/

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2011/11/7/1320669196125/Sainsburys-own-label-004.jpg

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2011/11/7/1320669255786/Sainsburys-own-label-014.jpg

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2011/11/7/1320669258787/Sainsburys-own-label-017.jpg

I'm trying to think of a US house brand that had excellent design and am failing :/

http://payload22.cargocollective.com/1/2/88505/2758319/611.jpg

http://payload22.cargocollective.com/1/2/88505/2758319/639---sartre-one-i-love.jpg

via http://50watts.com/2758319/One-Thousand-Daily-Book-Graphics

I've been following that daily book graphics blog for some time now. My my latest "design" see the ask Dan Selzer thread.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41-xMvZ0kAL._SL500_.jpg

Straight outta Albers

https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2139/5766604767_5f07263a89_z.jpg

1956

https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3137/5810930092_2ff0000e06_b.jpg

1967

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5103/5612271684_3b4abab160_z.jpg

1959

love this one!

all via https://secure.flickr.com/photos/x-ray_delta_one/

http://kemistrygallery.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/gtforsite2.jpg

Enjoyed this show of Galt Toys stuff: http://kemistrygallery.co.uk/shows/2012/ken-garland-galy-tots

xp maybe one day i will scan all the full colour future of space exploration type full page spreads i remember seeing in old eagle annuals that i hope my parents still have.

Essential reading for corporate propaganda sci-fi/space exploration: http://www.anothersciencefiction.com/

Dunno if this qualifies (also 1 year too late) but this was my favorite picture book as a kid:

Vodnik by Stepan Zavrel, 1970

http://img1.etsystatic.com/il_570xN.297669949.jpg

http://img0.etsystatic.com/il_570xN.297807808.jpg

http://img1.etsystatic.com/il_570xN.297670141.jpg

http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/88505/1989061/cendrars-moravagine-seymour-chwast.jpg

1970

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m28nnj3HFl1qz4vjro1_r1_500.jpg

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7063/6900637247_035a4e02db.jpg
1961 ... Convair 990

is there a thread on awesome old plane liveries?

for example

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/images/business/20111215-livery/others/southwest1-old.jpg

would bookmark

this looks to be a bargain (two massive hardcover books in a slipcase):

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/3836528347/ref=s9_simh_gw_p14_d0_g14_i1?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=1PEAQSM6YBTP60D70DZ9&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=467128533&pf_rd_i=468294

taschen books usually are a pretty good deal

http://vintageposterblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/manchester-claude-buckle-poster.jpg

~1960

Justified paragraph can do one but everything else is good.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/auteurs_production/post_images/12628/Cowboys-RO.jpg?1354245829

http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/movie-poster-of-the-week-anne-of-the-thousand-days-and-the-romanian-movie-poster

http://s3.amazonaws.com/auteurs_production/post_images/12616/AnneoftheThousandDays_Romania.jpg?1354245401

wow these are dope

http://s3.amazonaws.com/auteurs_production/post_images/12621/Portretul-unui-necunoscut-RO.jpg?1354245607

like if raoul ruiz made a film with prince

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7122/8152351693_a88ef0428c_b.jpg

1971 (sorry)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/47607517@N04/8152351693/ btw

70s too

http://agi-open-london.tumblr.com/

nice one

and for what it's worth...

http://danselzer.prosite.com/

rad!

had no idea you'd done the danny wang and metro area discs - kudos!

a long time ago. A few other environ and balihu releases that aren't up there as well.

http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1336/4734844638_8b54f93960_b.jpg
1953 ... just what they need! by x-ray delta one, on Flickr

What a terrible idea

bad pick-up line too

As George Carlin once said "You don't have to be Fellini to figure that one out"

I want "You meet the nicest people on a Honda" as a poster

― caek, Monday, March 29, 2010 10:56 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i got this made up btw, not poster size, 6"x10" ish

http://24.media.tumblr.com/dba7df20fdb7a067f162204852701884/tumblr_mrhoj7A64Q1rss4jdo5_500.png

http://24.media.tumblr.com/b0b82048d0228f563e61a8b360eded1a/tumblr_mrhoj7A64Q1rss4jdo2_400.png

http://24.media.tumblr.com/0db875372f578238503545d4d883db90/tumblr_mrhoj7A64Q1rss4jdo1_500.png

via http://notes.husk.org/post/58182630669/uk-road-signs

(basically everything good i post here is via that guy)

I thought that last one was a gavel at first

Good to see this on New Answers again. My favourite thread of all time.

vintage swedish book design

http://50watts.com/Bibliomaniker-2

these are magnificent.

http://payload176.cargocollective.com/1/2/88505/5838947/13-bookcoverlover-Lagerson1a_900.jpg

Incredible

http://midcenturymoderndesign.tumblr.com/

nice collection!

should be reposted here i like this kind of illustration:

http://31.media.tumblr.com/9d42abbf7f2f0899bf2f057f2082d41f/tumblr_muzbdsxFxZ1r6ivyno1_1280.jpg

!

http://i.imgur.com/x2xJDJ0.jpg

1965 Norwegian paperback of _Darkness at Noon_
http://www.klio.no/bilder/4074_Morke_midt_large.jpg

Whoops, larger than I expected, sorry

http://i.imgur.com/vtHQI25.jpg

nicr

i mean "nice"

QSL/Ham Radio Cards:

https://www.presentandcorrect.com/blog/qsl

http://d.lib.ncsu.edu/collections/catalog?f%5Bispartof_facet%5D%5B%5D=University+Archives&f%5Bsubject_facet%5D%5B%5D=Amateur+radio+stations

http://www.garlinger.com/QSL/qsl.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/94207108@N02/sets/72157634329033325/

wow

thank you so much for these

woah

https://www.presentandcorrect.com/blog/old-luggage-labels-featuring-nice-illustrations-of-modernist-buildings

I know, second repost from that blog. If you don't already follow it, it's a pretty hip shop in london I think that mostly sells like old stationery bits and bobs and has an immaculate sense of design and style. Everything a bit cutesy and pricey but amazing none the less.

http://images.collection.cooperhewitt.org/85153_ff6dbcf3f7eee3eb_b.jpg
from notes.husk.org, which caek linked to ages ago and is great

(sorry for huge img)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/insect54/sets/72157601907959619/

some newer than 70s but still amazing collection

http://file.vintageadbrowser.com/czatjilquvgx84.jpg

http://www.cartwheelart.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/lot-49.jpg

http://33.media.tumblr.com/06a3b786958ec8dab2f354bca9de227c/tumblr_n8dhfdybk31r6ivyno1_1280.jpg

mit WILFRED BRAMBELL

that's a glorious poster

http://i.minus.com/ibai5CJoX8OVPu.jpg

1944 (cheating)

wow beautiful!

fireworks packaging design:

https://www.presentandcorrect.com/blog/light-at-arms-length

awesome.

http://i.imgur.com/7UQLk6e.jpg

Saul Bass really is the best

http://i.imgur.com/THAW25q.jpg

wow!

the sun is so unphotogenic

http://www.doublearrow.co.uk/manual.htm

http://doublearrow.co.uk/manual/3_19.1965-09.gif

http://www.doublearrow.co.uk/manual/3_504.1965-05.gif

http://www.doublearrow.co.uk/manual/7_22.1966-01.gif

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2015/08/28/travel/30-airline-posters-from-flyings-golden-age/s/28posters-slideshow-slide-SX4N.html

slick

the Swiss ones remind me that some of these fit here (I think): http://poster-gallery.com/en/shop/cat/Winter-assistance/1/?show=50

http://www.low-fi.co.uk/winterhilfe_de_1945.jpg http://www.low-fi.co.uk/winterhilfe_de_1949.jpg http://www.low-fi.co.uk/winterhilfe_de_1950.jpg http://www.low-fi.co.uk/winterhilfe_de_1960.jpg http://www.low-fi.co.uk/winterhilfe_de_1971.jpg

https://vimeo.com/141891887

^^^^ Was just coming here to post that. Everyone needs to watch that video.

A german motion designer animated a bunch of "op art" book covers - half of which are in this thread.

I'm currently helping install the new SFMOMA and there's a design show that includes some gorgeous posters for the italian typewriter company Olivetti. A quick GIS for their posters brings up some great stuff:
https://fishinkblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/fishinkblog-1857-olivetti-2.jpg
https://fishinkblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/fishinkblog-1856-olivetti-1.jpg

Olivetti is one of the great designer-friendly companies of the 20th century, both their product-design and their marketing.

From that small but special pantheon which also includes Geigy and Container Corporation of America.

http://i.imgur.com/mWWp7Hn.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/ouyfA5h.jpg

http://www.victorialinetiles.co.uk/index.html

http://i.imgur.com/4YoVEul.jpg

God that cat food label is MAGNIFICENT

https://67.media.tumblr.com/2ea6ce4f2a804bc6488d4aee0b89e2dd/tumblr_ngiokhOsh41rdwik4o2_r1_500.jpg

Almanach Młodych. Edited by Tadeusz Konwicki and Artur Międzyrzecki. Cover by Jerzy Jaworowski. Published by Wydawnictwo Iskry 1966

Not a pinterst user, but wow: https://za.pinterest.com/jkulon/plakaty-z-europy/

https://www.instagram.com/matchbloc/

https://recollection.com.au/

Found a copy of this on the sidewalk… available in color variations

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71QZTosqmyL.jpg

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/Xk4AAOSw~XpZW-jy/s-l300.jpg

Still find it incredible that, from the early 1960s to the mid-1990s, British nuclear submarines were upholstered in William Morris Tudor Rose fabric. This sample from the HMS Talent. pic.twitter.com/AhNajKUZHf

— Crystal Bennes (@crystalbennes) March 27, 2018

visible at 3 minutes here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FZYeVM7ucY&feature=youtu.be&t=3m5s

Just wanted some place to lament the failure of this Kickstarter. They were asking a lot and the guy is obscure but I don't think Unit has failed before. Check out the video, looked beautiful.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1993782747/will-burtin-neglected-giant-of-design

heartbreaking!

saw this italian chocolate packaging that I like a lot and it made me think of this thread

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CusqvL9Ofb4/V9ZMDJUOQ2I/AAAAAAAD-Ts/UgQgzuKKKLodPCMZ0iGcXY1ratLWBRbMgCLcB/s1600/LATTE%2Bby%2BSabad%25C3%25AC-2.jpeg

OMG https://letterformarchive.org/news/view/milwaukee-transit-passes?utm_source=Letterform+Archive+News&utm_campaign=0ea70f765c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2021_09_24_07_26_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e30c8c0169-0ea70f765c-446150649&mc_cid=0ea70f765c&mc_eid=e348f45d3a

posting this here even though it's after the time period. This PDF contains all the pictograms from the olympics starting in the 60s.

https://stillmed.olympic.org/media/Document%20Library/OlympicOrg/Factsheets-Reference-Documents/Games/Pictograms/Reference-document-The-Sports-Pictograms-of-the-OG-from-Tokyo-1964-to-Rio-2016.pdf

Don't ever change, Aus.