It’s always fun to look through the great work of the past. While many people I know dislike them for some reason, I’ve always been a fan of old posters. It’s nice to look at packaging from yesteryear as well, it’s like looking through the window to a time before focus groups and execs dabbling in everything they get the chance to.
This coming Thursday, the fine folks at House Industries are putting on an open house / opening reception for their new Eames Century Modern font collection at the Eames office in Santa Monica!
New Skateboard Graphics is the book of the month for March 2010. I know what you’re thinking, another skate graphic book? Well, yes. To see why check out our mini-review here.
The latest addition to the Logo Rants & Raves section is the Chocolate chunk script logo by Evan Hecox. Is it a rant or rave? While that shouldn’t be too hard to figure out, you can check it out in the Logo Rants & Raves section by clicking here.
Found a couple pretty nice flickr sets the other day from the Berlin Buchstaben-Museum ( or letter museum for us English speakers). Being a lover of signs, old & random stuff, the next time (first time?) I’m in Berlin, I know where I’m going. (check after the jump for some highlights & links)
Designers are a dime a dozen*, everyone with a computer is a graphics designer (no mis-spell there). Saying a great designers are one in a million would be an understatement. Then there’s that whole other level which is so rare that the level doesn’t even exist, Herb Lubalin was the definition of that kind of level.
Sure yesterday, we put up some good examples of American design on cars from the 70′s but don’t think for a second that the German’s were sleeping at that time. The early 70′s meant business at the Porsche factory, their cars were works of art and to top them off, they painted them amazingly well for the races. Here’s a great set from the Porsche museum of the branding on their racecars. (check after the jump to see out highlights)
Seems like now the only thing that car companies make are remakes of older cool cars, cars with some Green story or just complete garbage. Enough of that though, here’s a cool set with some amazing examples of how cool the typography on old cars used to be (you can also see a condensed version after the jump)
I just can’t say no. Check this out. Amazing German currency note from 1919. Or check out this a doozie of a 1921 Czech note. Or how about this random German note with a devil dude on it from 1921? I could go on all day, these are so awesome. I’ll leave with this one, apparently from a town that now has the German Toy Museum.
This guy should know. Ken Segall worked with Steve Jobs while at Apple’s agency, TBWA\Chiat\Day. He’s the guy who wrote the Think Different campaign and came up with the name “iMac” (which Jobs initially hated). Check out the interview here.
Road trips mean new adventures whether it be seeing new & cool things, eating new & cool foods or acquiring new & cool stories. One of my favorite parts about road trips, especially road trips through random area are the incredible roadside signage. This year’s SIA show was in Denver, so naturally that called for a road trip and all it’s glorious signs of yesterday.
We’ve been quite excited about this one and have had to keep the wraps on it for over a year. Outdoor Research is known worldwide for their amazing technical outdoor gear. We’re proud to have been part of their first graphic t-shirt line ever!
