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xpost Whoa, those are great

tits akimbo (kenan), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 18:57 (seventeen years ago)

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

SORCEROUSES..roll on stage! (Pillbox), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 18:58 (seventeen years ago)

whoa

caek, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:00 (seventeen years ago)

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 (seventeen years ago)

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

fucken cumlord (omar little), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:02 (seventeen years ago)

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

caek, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:02 (seventeen years ago)

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

caek, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:04 (seventeen years ago)

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

fucken cumlord (omar little), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:05 (seventeen years ago)

'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 (seventeen years ago)

So perfectly unnerving.

tits akimbo (kenan), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:07 (seventeen years ago)

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 (seventeen years ago)

tits akimbo (kenan), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:14 (seventeen years ago)

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 (seventeen years ago)

this thread is a goddamn goldmine

Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:15 (seventeen years ago)

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

Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:18 (seventeen years ago)

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

Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:29 (seventeen years ago)

Maurice Binder's opening titles to Arabesque

Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:32 (seventeen years ago)

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

Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:35 (seventeen years ago)

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

Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:37 (seventeen years ago)

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

Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:38 (seventeen years ago)

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 (seventeen years ago)

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

Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:42 (seventeen years ago)

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

Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:43 (seventeen years ago)

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

Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:47 (seventeen years ago)

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

Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:47 (seventeen years ago)

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

Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:48 (seventeen years ago)

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

Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:50 (seventeen years ago)

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

Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:51 (seventeen years ago)

Awesome run here ET

SORCEROUSES..roll on stage! (Pillbox), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:52 (seventeen years ago)

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

Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 20:46 (seventeen years ago)

Elvis has the stash

tits akimbo (kenan), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 20:48 (seventeen years ago)

caek: Treumann font is Clarendon btw

SORCEROUSES..roll on stage! (Pillbox), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 20:54 (seventeen years ago)

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 (seventeen years ago)

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 (seventeen years ago)

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.)

tits akimbo (kenan), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 22:24 (seventeen years ago)

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

Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 22:25 (seventeen years ago)

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

Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 22:28 (seventeen years ago)

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

SORCEROUSES..roll on stage! (Pillbox), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 22:30 (seventeen years ago)

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

SORCEROUSES..roll on stage! (Pillbox), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 22:31 (seventeen years ago)

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 (seventeen years ago)

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.

Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 22:37 (seventeen years ago)

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

SORCEROUSES..roll on stage! (Pillbox), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 22:37 (seventeen years ago)

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

Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 22:38 (seventeen years ago)

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

Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 22:39 (seventeen years ago)

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

Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 22:41 (seventeen years ago)

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

Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 22:43 (seventeen years ago)

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

Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 22:44 (seventeen years ago)

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

fucken cumlord (omar little), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 22:50 (seventeen years ago)

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 (seventeen years ago)


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