Heres a lovely flickr collection of vintage tape inserts. The collection features inserts from Dixons, Phillips, BASF. If your into 70’s and 80’s material check out the full collection here, brace yourself for some brave typography and colour combos.
Vikesh Bhatt
Posted on Monday, 16th of February 2009 Permalink
Farrow has recently reprinted a limited run of the Haçidenda 15th Birthday poster, which they first produced in 1997. This was sadly the last birthday that the Haçidenda celebrated before shutting its door in the summer of the same year.
This beautiful poster design has been screen-printed on “Campaign MG Poster Paper (120 GSM) with Pantone 810, black, cool grey 9 and reflective ink”. You can see the printing process used to reproduce the poster here. It’s a shame they don’t capture the smell of the print!
John Alexander
Posted on Friday, 19th of December 2008 Permalink
In conjunction with the Street Art exhibition at the Tate Modern, various works
have appeared in the area surrounding the Fibre studio.
Artists from Spain, Italy, France and Brazil were all showing works at the gallery
and in the nearby streets. Some placed legally, some appear to have been done
without permission. Either way, the message would seem to be the same:
Street art’s ok so long as the perpetrator’s not from Britain.
In a decision I support, the gallery purposefully excluded Banksy in an attempt
to draw attention to other just as accomplished artists and aspects of the art
form. Just a shame I think not to celebrate some more of our own emerging
and already established talent.
There is a map of the route available for download on the Tate website.
Alex Geoffrey
Posted on Monday, 16th of June 2008 Permalink
On April 1st, 1977 The Guardian published a seven page “special report” about San Serriffe, a small republic in the Indian Ocean. The report included detailed facts about the geography, culture and economy of this hitherto unknown land. The newspaper received hundreds of requests from readers seeking further information. However, the island never existed and the report was one of the first April Fool’s Day hoaxes by a national newspaper in Britain.
San Serriffe probably didn’t fool any designers at the time as everything about the place referenced typographic terms. The two main islands, Upper Caisse and Lower Caisse looked like a semi-colon, the capital was Bodoni and the dictator’s name was General Pica!
The most impressive part was that major advertisers played along with the joke – Guinness, Texaco, Kodak and Vladivar Vodka all ran special advertisements, construction company Costain’s ad read “Costain is changing the face of San Serriffe” - geddit?. Read more about San Serriffe at Hoaxipedia
David Rainbird
Posted on Monday, 31st of March 2008 Permalink
Santa’s sleigh must have hit a highway sign on the way to my house this year – I’m now the proud owner of two vintage highway letters. The holes are for reflectors and the X is missing a few but I like it better for that. The typeface Highway Gothic is being phased out by the Federal Highway Administration and replaced with the more legible Clearview. Replacing all the signs across the States will take ten years so hopefully there will be more vintage letters becoming available.
David Rainbird
Posted on Friday, 11th of January 2008 Permalink
The perfect Christmas gift for any budding typographer this year has to be this lovely Font Clock by Sebastian Wrong (for Established & Sons) incorporating 12 different fonts. The only problem is you’ll have to put a few more hours in to afford one.
Nathan Usmar Lauder
Posted on Monday, 26th of November 2007 Permalink
Stella Artois has just re-launched their site with a delicious piece of typographic film inspired by 1920’s poster typography. Artois has produced a flurry of great work lately (see here, here) and the animation is as striking and witty as any of their print ads. The film works as a tour around the site that brings together existing and new content including all the commercials. Link
David Rainbird
Posted on Tuesday, 9th of October 2007 Permalink
This Saturday saw me staying in for the first time in a ages mind you staying in is the new going out. Whilst watching the rubbish we pay for I’ve come to the conclusion that TV programme intos aren’t what they used to be. I spent time reflecting on some of the rich visual stuff I was exposed to when a kid watching Saturday TV. Just check out some of the logos above, absolutely amazing! In stark contrast to the depressing display today, XFactor and Strictly Come Dancing to name a few poor examples, yuk! - Note some of these also had killer soundtracks.
Vikesh Bhatt
Posted on Tuesday, 2nd of October 2007 Permalink
This poster designed by Joseph Luffman, produced by the international type academy (ITA) in support of British Food Fortnight is just one of the lovely things you can see and buy at Blanka, a site devoted to celebrating the very best in creative communication and print.
Dave Brown
Posted on Tuesday, 18th of September 2007 Permalink
˙looɔ ʎʇʇǝɹd sɐʍ ʇı ʇɥƃnoɥʇ ı ʇnq ǝuoʎuɐ oʇ sı sıɥʇ ǝsn ʇɐɥʍ ǝuıƃɐɯı ʇ,uɐɔ. Link
Gary Butcher
Posted on Tuesday, 17th of July 2007 Permalink
