John Downer doing his thing, via The FontFeed
An Exhibition of Hand Lettered Posters by John Downer
Opening Reception Thursday, August 13, 2009 from 8 to 11 p.m.
At RESERVE, 420 N. Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90036
(directly across from Canter’s Delicatessen) [map]
Details here.
TONS of vintage printing stuff and ephemera.
Want to volunteer or sponsor? Give them a hollar.
There’s also a some vendor highlights posted on their blog.
Lyon’s Coffee Shop, San Bruno, CA 1962. Found via Googie Art.
I grew up around Googie Architecture. It was just there. Space age-looking buildings, funky decor and rocks in the walls. Lots of rocks. Flintstones-like, but where the Jetson’s were running the quarry.
The 24 hour Lyon’s in San Bruno (see above) was the high school hangout. Long weird nights. In college, those weird nights spread to the other Lyon’s in San Mateo, San Carlos and Daly City. Denny’s was the alternative.
The style’s roots can be traced back to Frank Lloyd Wright and Tallesin West. Architect John Lautner designed the first Googie structure in 1949 and it was panned by critics. The firm of Armet and Davis designed most of the rest. [Read more →]
Snapped these while in Reno a few weeks back. Love 1950s vernacular typography, I’ve built an entire font family around this.
Drove the guy at the motel front desk crazy with my flash.
A really nice drug dealer tried to sell me his wares.
I’m not being sarcastic, he was really, really nice.
Took me a long moment before I realized what he was up to.
New logo system and identity for the city of Gent in Belgium. What do you think? Article, critique and discussion at Brand New.
I love good information graphics. And bad information graphics make my eyes bleed.
Check out this redesign by Robert Palmer (and strong letter to Rep. John Boehner) of a recent visual attack on the Democratic Health Plan.
This is an excellent example as to why graphic designers (well trained graphic designers) can do a lot more than just push buttons on a computer. Or make a logo look nice. Good graphic design is about good communication – and can be world changing.
(That’s my soapbox for the day. Thank you for reading.)
Found via Twitter.com/angelaglenn
Robust and playful, Organon is Nick Cook’s new superset type family – now available thru Fontworks UK. Click on the links above to order. Detailed release notes can be also be found in this post at Typophile.
As for the moniker, Nick says, ‘I got the name from the first line of ‘Cloudbusting’ by Kate Bush.’
Found via Twitter.com/typegirl
PSFK takes a look at the new interiors for Starbuck’s great brand experiment, 15th Avenue E Coffee and Tea. Feels a smidgen like Peet’s, the other high end coffee house chain that used to own Starbucks.
Here’s a great article at Typotheque on fonts who hang out in families. Where they come from, why they get along better than real families.
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