http://dropular.net/content/_fixed/8ex2fy656_3022809875_1e97bde691_o.jpg
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:42 (fifteen years ago) link
http://dropular.net/content/_fixed/ipsa5g8mf_2965627507_2f0f0f2f15_o.jpg
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:43 (fifteen years ago) link
http://10.media.tumblr.com/oMl5Ekkosk148ottvRs2ofGEo1_400.jpg
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:47 (fifteen years ago) link
http://thingsmagazine.net/projects/1970s/1974%20Modern%20Economics%20-%20J.Pen.jpg
http://www.cafes.net/ditch/wilkins.jpg
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:48 (fifteen years ago) link
http://burlesquedesign.com/mike/somuchpileup/danreisinger/09.jpg
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:50 (fifteen years ago) link
http://crossedcombs.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/04/24/2382992574_d03bd649c6.jpg
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Awesome run here ET
― SORCEROUSES..roll on stage! (Pillbox), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:52 (fifteen years ago) link
There's more, I just have to get some lunch!
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 20:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Elvis has the stash
― tits akimbo (kenan), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 20:48 (fifteen years ago) link
caek: Treumann font is Clarendon btw
― SORCEROUSES..roll on stage! (Pillbox), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 20:54 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 22:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Vintage Penguin rules so hard
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1299/570934417_3b0bcf4567.jpg
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 22:24 (fifteen years ago) link
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.)
― tits akimbo (kenan), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 22:24 (fifteen years ago) link
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2131/1779218426_ee78ebbf70.jpg
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 22:25 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.manhattanrarebooks-modernfirsts.com/images/deighton.jpg
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 22:28 (fifteen years ago) link
http://wiedler.ch/download/felix/books/451_jacket.jpg
― SORCEROUSES..roll on stage! (Pillbox), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 22:30 (fifteen years ago) link
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2401/2273057639_9cb85d7b8a.jpg
― SORCEROUSES..roll on stage! (Pillbox), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 22:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Despite Shepard Fairy, Soviet poster design is still brilliant: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bpx/sets/72057594117941491/
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 22:34 (fifteen years ago) link
I still think of Clarendon as National Park signage font. Fortunately the NPS has started switching away from it.
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 22:37 (fifteen years ago) link
http://grainedit.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/citroen-brochure-2.jpg
― SORCEROUSES..roll on stage! (Pillbox), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 22:37 (fifteen years ago) link
http://burlesquedesign.com/mike/somuchpileup/danreisinger/10.jpg
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 22:38 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.productmanualarchive.org/manuals-brands/Sears/sears-8m-calculator-box-JB.jpg
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 22:39 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.earlesfork.com/PHOTOS/rely_brochure.jpg
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 22:41 (fifteen years ago) link
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/184/368460509_86c62126b5.jpg
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 22:43 (fifteen years ago) link
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/172/417089104_e580bd9ef5.jpg
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 22:44 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.etapes.com/files/images/cathy/auriac2.jpg
― fucken cumlord (omar little), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 22:50 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 23:20 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― joygoat, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 23:45 (fifteen years ago) link
grainedit is supreme for this sort of thing
― fucken cumlord (omar little), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 23:50 (fifteen years ago) link
probably worth a lookhttp://www.creativereview.co.uk/crblog/ken-briggs-at-pump-house-gallery/(London exhibition)
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 18:05 (fifteen years ago) link
I want to frame that calculator ad. Seriously, I do.
― tits akimbo (kenan), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 23:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh nevermind... it's THE BOX. Even better.
Opening credits to Department S
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Thursday, 16 April 2009 00:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Pretty sure the Department S logo used to be the logo for Super Valu grocery stores.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 17 April 2009 17:52 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― caek, Tuesday, 21 April 2009 22:39 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― tits akimbo (kenan), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 22:39 (fifteen years ago) link
century schoolbook?
― caek, Thursday, 23 April 2009 00:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Close. But it's close to a lot of things.
― tits akimbo (kenan), Thursday, 23 April 2009 01:02 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― tits akimbo (kenan), Thursday, 23 April 2009 01:06 (fifteen years ago) link
(The spartan limitations of internet typography don't help.)
― tits akimbo (kenan), Thursday, 23 April 2009 01:07 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― tits akimbo (kenan), Thursday, 23 April 2009 01:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Question for mr telecom.This image: http://dropular.net/content/_fixed/ipsa5g8mf_2965627507_2f0f0f2f15_o.jpgDo 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_Nitschehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/eriknitsche/
for all the background.
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Thursday, 23 April 2009 04:07 (fifteen years ago) link
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?
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Thursday, 23 April 2009 10:39 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.penguinsciencefiction.org/
― caek, Friday, 1 May 2009 13:35 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Friday, 1 May 2009 15:21 (fifteen years ago) link
my thesis in college was on font styles as signifiers of overall shifts in design styles throughout the 20th century.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Friday, 1 May 2009 15:27 (fifteen years ago) link
TCRODTT, that sounds interesting! Is it online anywhere?
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 2 May 2009 13:19 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 2 May 2009 15:30 (fifteen years ago) link
ban bank gothic
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Saturday, 2 May 2009 15:36 (fifteen years ago) link