I never really liked the 90's grungy-busy thing at all, even when it was new - it always felt like it was setting itself up for instant datedness, kind of like all the "computer" fonts of the 80's representing fake futureism. I've been digging a lot of the old serif fonts lately, mostly out of necessity because I deal with a lot of stuff from 16th and 17th century at my job and kind of have to design around that.
As for Banco, it will always just be "Thrasher Font" to me, just like Mistral is "NWA Font":http://www.nebraskaskateparks.com/skateparktourEast-5-2005/norfolk/thrasher52405.jpg
― joygoat, Saturday, 2 May 2009 16:17 (fifteen years ago) link
I think this is the best thread there's ever been on ILX.
― Michael Jones, Saturday, 2 May 2009 17:31 (fifteen years ago) link
TCRODTT, that sounds interesting! Is it online anywhere?
nope. this was a decade ago, sorry.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Saturday, 2 May 2009 19:05 (fifteen years ago) link
A few nice bits and bobs collected here - DavideLevine's collection from Expo 1958 Brussels on flickr.
― Ned Trifle II, Sunday, 3 May 2009 13:30 (fifteen years ago) link
The same fellow had a huge collection of travel related graphics from the 1920s and 1930s. Amazing.
― Ned Trifle II, Sunday, 3 May 2009 13:31 (fifteen years ago) link
And from a link from that site I noticed this poster for a shooting festival in 1963http://www.posterpage.ch/exhib/ex190tel/p133189s.jpg(the site is one huge collection of posters from all over the place - well worth a look if you graphics junkies haven't already been there)
― Ned Trifle II, Sunday, 3 May 2009 13:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Access forbidden!
― caek, Monday, 4 May 2009 23:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Damn - it worked yesterday. Maybe they don't like hotlinking?
― Ned Trifle II, Monday, 4 May 2009 23:29 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.alamedainfo.com/Expo_67_Pavilion_of_Ethiopia_PC_001.jpg
― caek, Friday, 22 May 2009 10:08 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.alamedainfo.com/Expo_67_Montreal.htm
― caek, Friday, 22 May 2009 10:11 (fourteen years ago) link
― caek, Monday, May 4, 2009 11:11 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark
Back up now. Worth a look.http://www.posterpage.ch/
― Brandy Frotte and Reel De La St-Jean (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 22 May 2009 10:22 (fourteen years ago) link
http://blog.iso50.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Picture-32-450x645.png
― caek, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 14:05 (fourteen years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/tomasutpen/album7/mjqsherrif.jpg
― caek, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 14:07 (fourteen years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/tomasutpen/album6/californiadreaming66.jpg
― caek, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 14:08 (fourteen years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/tomasutpen/album5/garlandofred56.jpg
this guy...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/tomasutpen/album4/inventionsdimensions1963.jpg
― caek, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 14:09 (fourteen years ago) link
p.s. came v. close to dropping $75 on a print of this 1993 exhibition poster
http://web.mac.com/calmuseum/iWeb/Site/Posters_files/p_cowa.jpg
― caek, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 14:15 (fourteen years ago) link
all those jazz covers selected by http://tsutpen.blogspot.com/, which dom linked to on his blog. the Art of Jazz section is great, but so is the photography.
― caek, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 14:16 (fourteen years ago) link
http://nevver.tumblr.com/photo/1280/137140318/1/FMjAUV0Jiplblevb9KaXW0WV
― caek, Friday, 17 July 2009 11:56 (fourteen years ago) link
http://nevver.tumblr.com/photo/1280/139914267/1/2m8BXUfripso6ku0lUz0DCsZ
― caek, Friday, 17 July 2009 12:05 (fourteen years ago) link
after another day of putting fake digital murk work for 'edgy' camden ponies this thread makes me ashamed and want to cry
― straightola, Friday, 17 July 2009 15:22 (fourteen years ago) link
<3 this thread
― slug bait, can't wait (herb albert), Friday, 17 July 2009 15:26 (fourteen years ago) link
http://blog.bookcoverarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/how-children-fail.jpg
― caek, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 21:20 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm unsure of what supposed to be represented there
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 21:59 (fourteen years ago) link
love those opening credits. and thank you Elvis Telecom for introducing me to Erik Nitsche-- he's amazing.
not exactly sure on the dates on these:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3581/3770499564_93d2196b96.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2544/3770494886_ba40045662_o.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3561/3769694835_be9b038a1d.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3425/3769698885_6629681d65.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2588/3769701869_6cc4640522_o.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3435/3770501544_00afc3a457.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2449/3770494292_70dc5f735f.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2480/3769694279_54a553a0a7.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3480/3769689019_7cf667c66f.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3517/3769690671_9817178c22.jpg
― sciolism, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 22:25 (fourteen years ago) link
rad
― caek, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 23:25 (fourteen years ago) link
damn this thread is awesome. i love so many of these.
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 30 July 2009 05:46 (fourteen years ago) link
http://blog.iso50.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/img116-450x664.jpg
― caek, Friday, 31 July 2009 14:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I knew this was an Elvis Telecom thread.
― Your Mother Smells Of Elderflower (Masonic Boom), Friday, 31 July 2009 14:31 (fourteen years ago) link
http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/e9/17/8751c060ada03703edb7f110.L.jpg
― Eazy, Friday, 31 July 2009 14:41 (fourteen years ago) link
http://img.maniadb.com/images/album_t/224/224266_1_f.jpg
― Eazy, Friday, 31 July 2009 14:46 (fourteen years ago) link
http://caffecino.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/zzzzzzzzzzzzzz31.jpg
― Eazy, Friday, 31 July 2009 14:48 (fourteen years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/tomasutpen/album7/artofsocialmobility.jpg
― caek, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 11:03 (fourteen years ago) link
weird text justifying, esp with the logo so near
― unban dictionary (blueski), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 11:07 (fourteen years ago) link
yah, looks like an ee cummings poem
― caek, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 11:35 (fourteen years ago) link
more please!
― caek, Monday, 2 November 2009 11:03 (fourteen years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Mrv83QWuE8Y/SMFkn4g_eYI/AAAAAAAAAPA/3uWP6e7TQNg/s1600/the-common-sense-of-science.jpg
― caek, Monday, 2 November 2009 11:11 (fourteen years ago) link
one of my favourite interior book designs: http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=oExswkGgz64C
― caek, Monday, 2 November 2009 11:13 (fourteen years ago) link
fetishistic, but well done
http://simoncpage.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/4115566898_c54c93d3d2_b.jpg
― caek, Thursday, 19 November 2009 14:56 (fourteen years ago) link
probably buying those
― mdskltr (blueski), Thursday, 19 November 2009 14:58 (fourteen years ago) link
second from left does not look like a stable system, by the way
― caek, Thursday, 19 November 2009 15:01 (fourteen years ago) link
bottom left and bottom right don't really fit with the others in terms of style. would happily get any of the others, but $40/60 is ridic imo. i know they're doing this in the most inneficient and expensive way possible, and passing on the cost, this is what i consider reasonable: http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/posters.
― caek, Thursday, 19 November 2009 15:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Heh, I did something similar on a recent flyer for our club night:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v418/Chewshabadoo/GlockSept-2-BIG-TEXT.gif
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 19 November 2009 15:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Inspired by the 'salon auto geneve' poster up the thread.
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 19 November 2009 15:11 (fourteen years ago) link
i started a new project the other week - a catalog that's all 60's/70's pop art style. fucking fun as hell (alot of work tho).
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Thursday, 19 November 2009 15:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Admittedly my poster is compromised because it needed to have "impact" and too many words.
xpost
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 19 November 2009 15:19 (fourteen years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/tomasutpen/album7/2415981549_6fd20f6ac6_o.jpg
― caek, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 11:05 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.vads.ac.uk/x-large.php?uid=92488&sos=1
― ianmaxwell, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 19:16 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.vads.ac.uk/images/TEC/large/posters51.jpg
― ianmaxwell, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 19:18 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.vads.ac.uk/images/TEC/large/posters105.jpg