Graphic design 1945-1969

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.

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.

1980, but I think aesthetically this belongs in this thread rather than the 1986-1994 one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjkU4TFtmNQ

https://www.modernillustration.org/

Nice find, thanks for sharing

(belated thanks obv, didn't notice it was posted a month ago!)

maybe more "illustration 1950s-1990s" but the typography, design, colors etc are as cool as the illustration.

https://www.richardmpowers.com/