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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)

grainedit is supreme for this sort of thing

fucken cumlord (omar little), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 23:50 (seventeen years ago)

probably worth a look
http://www.creativereview.co.uk/crblog/ken-briggs-at-pump-house-gallery/
(London exhibition)

Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 18:05 (seventeen years ago)

I want to frame that calculator ad. Seriously, I do.

tits akimbo (kenan), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 23:27 (seventeen years ago)

Oh nevermind... it's THE BOX. Even better.

tits akimbo (kenan), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 23:27 (seventeen years ago)

Opening credits to Department S

Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Thursday, 16 April 2009 00:06 (seventeen years ago)

Pretty sure the Department S logo used to be the logo for Super Valu grocery stores.

Doctor Casino, Friday, 17 April 2009 17:52 (seventeen years ago)

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 (seventeen years ago)

century schoolbook?

caek, Thursday, 23 April 2009 00:05 (seventeen years ago)

Close. But it's close to a lot of things.

tits akimbo (kenan), Thursday, 23 April 2009 01:02 (seventeen years ago)

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 (seventeen years ago)

(The spartan limitations of internet typography don't help.)

tits akimbo (kenan), Thursday, 23 April 2009 01:07 (seventeen years ago)

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 (seventeen years ago)

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.

Erik Nitsche is the designer. Check out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Nitsche
http://www.flickr.com/photos/eriknitsche/

for all the background.

Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Thursday, 23 April 2009 04:07 (seventeen years ago)


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