― tits akimbo (kenan), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:14 (fifteen 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 (fifteen years ago) link
this thread is a goddamn goldmine
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:15 (fifteen 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 (fifteen 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 (fifteen years ago) link
Maurice Binder's opening titles to Arabesque
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:32 (fifteen 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 (fifteen years ago) link
http://23.media.tumblr.com/oMl5Ekkoslkrg77jEwK9DrXLo1_400.jpg
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:37 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y76/pumahunt/Gebrauchsgraphik5.jpg
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:38 (fifteen 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 (fifteen years ago) link
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