pino tovaglia poster is futura (and awesome), btw.
― caek, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 18:13 (fourteen years ago) link
(although it looks 1970s)
― caek, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 18:14 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― SORCEROUSES..roll on stage! (Pillbox), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 18:14 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― caek, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 18:19 (fourteen years ago) link
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..)
― SORCEROUSES..roll on stage! (Pillbox), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 18:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Only started 7 hours ago, and I already feel way late to this fantastic thread.
― tits akimbo (kenan), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 18:30 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― caek, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 18:31 (fourteen years ago) link
(xp)
xp This will go on for years, you know. :)
― tits akimbo (kenan), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 18:31 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, there are better threads for the type nerds to thrash this out. back to images!
― caek, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 18:34 (fourteen years ago) link
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3443/3223860429_244c24e37c_o.jpg
― caek, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 18:36 (fourteen years ago) link
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.)
― tits akimbo (kenan), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 18:43 (fourteen years ago) link
do you know this? http://www.gokudo.co.jp/Record/BlueNote1/index.htm
― caek, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 18:48 (fourteen years ago) link
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)
― SORCEROUSES..roll on stage! (Pillbox), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 18:51 (fourteen years ago) link
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...
― tits akimbo (kenan), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 18:53 (fourteen years ago) link
http://237studio.com/images/55209.jpghttp://237studio.com/images/64168.jpghttp://237studio.com/images/49632.jpg
pirelli tires ads
― fucken cumlord (omar little), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 18:55 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― tits akimbo (kenan), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 18:56 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost Whoa, those are great
― tits akimbo (kenan), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 18:57 (fourteen years ago) link
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3209/2846521736_34f06c6ab7.jpg?v=0
― SORCEROUSES..roll on stage! (Pillbox), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 18:58 (fourteen years ago) link
whoa
― caek, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:00 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― tits akimbo (kenan), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:01 (fourteen years ago) link
man, book companies don't even try anymore do they
― fucken cumlord (omar little), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:02 (fourteen years ago) link
lol at futura on that 1956 gardner book. i guess i was wrong.
― caek, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:02 (fourteen years ago) link
they do ok, xp: http://bookcoverarchive.com/
― caek, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:04 (fourteen years ago) link
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=0http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1176/866660519_76babea25a.jpg?v=0http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1285/866660529_49ebe56fd2.jpg?v=0http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2060/2083543382_3f70e72b08.jpg?v=0
― fucken cumlord (omar little), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:05 (fourteen years ago) link
'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
― SORCEROUSES..roll on stage! (Pillbox), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:06 (fourteen years ago) link
So perfectly unnerving.
― tits akimbo (kenan), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:07 (fourteen years ago) link
I dunno why I posted the jpeg upthread, when I could have just as easily posted this:
― SORCEROUSES..roll on stage! (Pillbox), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:12 (fourteen years ago) link
― tits akimbo (kenan), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:14 (fourteen years ago) link
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2060/2083543382_3f70e72b08.jpg?v=0
^^^short film about solar energy by saul bass
― fucken cumlord (omar little), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:15 (fourteen years ago) link
this thread is a goddamn goldmine
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:15 (fourteen years ago) link
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.jpgSee the whole thing big here
― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:18 (fourteen years ago) link
when did tabloid newspapers (chiefly The Sun) start using Futura (Bold Condensed) for headlines?
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Maurice Binder's opening titles to Arabesque
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:32 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i5.ebayimg.com/07/i/001/2b/dc/5661_1.JPG
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:35 (fourteen years ago) link
http://23.media.tumblr.com/oMl5Ekkoslkrg77jEwK9DrXLo1_400.jpg
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:37 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y76/pumahunt/Gebrauchsgraphik5.jpg
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:38 (fourteen years ago) link
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....
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:39 (fourteen years ago) link
http://dropular.net/content/_fixed/8ex2fy656_3022809875_1e97bde691_o.jpg
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:42 (fourteen years ago) link
http://dropular.net/content/_fixed/ipsa5g8mf_2965627507_2f0f0f2f15_o.jpg
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:43 (fourteen years ago) link
http://10.media.tumblr.com/oMl5Ekkosk148ottvRs2ofGEo1_400.jpg
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:47 (fourteen 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 (fourteen years ago) link
http://burlesquedesign.com/mike/somuchpileup/danreisinger/09.jpg
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:50 (fourteen 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 (fourteen years ago) link
Awesome run here ET
― SORCEROUSES..roll on stage! (Pillbox), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:52 (fourteen years ago) link
There's more, I just have to get some lunch!
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 20:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Elvis has the stash
― tits akimbo (kenan), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 20:48 (fourteen years ago) link
caek: Treumann font is Clarendon btw
― SORCEROUSES..roll on stage! (Pillbox), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 20:54 (fourteen 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 (fourteen years ago) link