Posts tagged graphic design

So much excitement over cleaning and scrubbing…Whee!

So much excitement over cleaning and scrubbing…Whee!

Stefan Sagmeister’s The Happy Show

Stefan Sagmeister’s The Happy Show

Grand Prix (MGM, 1967). Czech Poster (11” X 16”). Sports. Starring James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Yves Montand, Toshirô Mifune, Brian Bedford, Jessica Walter, Antonio Sabato, Francoise Hardy.

Grand Prix (MGM, 1967). Czech Poster (11” X 16”). Sports. Starring James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Yves Montand, Toshirô Mifune, Brian Bedford, Jessica Walter, Antonio Sabato, Francoise Hardy.

Original vintage ad from the 1950’s for General Dynamics featuring William Woodnut Griscom inventor of the first double induction motor.

Original vintage ad from the 1950’s for General Dynamics featuring William Woodnut Griscom inventor of the first double induction motor.

Annual of Advertising Art. New York: Art Directors Club of New York, [1924-1966] - These issues celebrate the finest in advertising art, featuring such artists or photographers as Arthur Rackham, Norman Rockwell, Edward J. Steichen, Miguel Covarrubias, Diane and Allan Arbus, and Thomas Hart Benton.

Annual of Advertising Art. New York: Art Directors Club of New York, [1924-1966] - These issues celebrate the finest in advertising art, featuring such artists or photographers as Arthur Rackham, Norman Rockwell, Edward J. Steichen, Miguel Covarrubias, Diane and Allan Arbus, and Thomas Hart Benton.

László Moholy-Nagy 1895-1946, Advertising Poster (Pneumatik) - “With its dynamic combination of image and type and its evocation of the speed of the machine age, ‘Advertising Poster’ (Pneumatik) is the key example of Moholy’s concept of Typophoto—the synthesis of typography and photography that he predicted would become the lingua franca of the modern era. Moholy’s manifesto of Typophoto, published in 1926 in the Leipzig journal Offset Buch and Werbekunst, outlines with his customary and remarkable prescience the future of printed communications in the twentieth century. In Moholy’s vision, the traditional linear type of Gutenberg would be exploded by the use of photographic reproductive techniques, techniques that would make possible the incorporation of images with type and the transformation of type itself. As Moholy wrote, ‘The typophoto governs the new tempo of the new visual literature’ (quoted in Bauhaus Photography, MIT Press, p. 138). “

László Moholy-Nagy 1895-1946, Advertising Poster (Pneumatik) - “With its dynamic combination of image and type and its evocation of the speed of the machine age, ‘Advertising Poster’ (Pneumatik) is the key example of Moholy’s concept of Typophoto—the synthesis of typography and photography that he predicted would become the lingua franca of the modern era. Moholy’s manifesto of Typophoto, published in 1926 in the Leipzig journal Offset Buch and Werbekunst, outlines with his customary and remarkable prescience the future of printed communications in the twentieth century. In Moholy’s vision, the traditional linear type of Gutenberg would be exploded by the use of photographic reproductive techniques, techniques that would make possible the incorporation of images with type and the transformation of type itself. As Moholy wrote, ‘The typophoto governs the new tempo of the new visual literature’ (quoted in Bauhaus Photography, MIT Press, p. 138). “

Bold and Simple = Good. The design work of Ragnar Freyer.

Bold and Simple = Good. The design work of Ragnar Freyer.

Watch A 9 Minute Video Of How Ink Is Made -  Everything designers and printers need to know about the process, the challenges and joy of ink making set to an uplifting soundtrack of classical music.

Carlo L. Vivarelli, Flums Grossberg, 1940. 39x27 inches, 99x68 1/2 cm. Sarganserländerische Buchdruckerei AG, Mels / Flums, Zürich

Carlo L. Vivarelli, Flums Grossberg, 1940. 39x27 inches, 99x68 1/2 cm. Sarganserländerische Buchdruckerei AG, Mels / Flums, Zürich

Las Vegas Neon Museum - Neon signs, introduced in Las Vegas in 1929 at the Oasis Café on Fremont Street, enjoyed their heyday between the 1930s – 1980s, still, I never get sick of looking at old signs and neon. Cool Hunting visits the Las Vegas Neon Museum, a 6 acre museum/neon boneyard set up by the city of Las Vegas and the Allied Arts Council and Young Electric Sign Company.

Las Vegas Neon Museum - Neon signs, introduced in Las Vegas in 1929 at the Oasis Café on Fremont Street, enjoyed their heyday between the 1930s – 1980s, still, I never get sick of looking at old signs and neon. Cool Hunting visits the Las Vegas Neon Museum, a 6 acre museum/neon boneyard set up by the city of Las Vegas and the Allied Arts Council and Young Electric Sign Company.

Estímulo by Javier Arizu Rosell.

Estímulo by Javier Arizu Rosell.

I do love a good die cut. Javier Arizu Rosell.

I do love a good die cut. Javier Arizu Rosell.