These vintage Santas are just a tad older than me.
Them, with their cartoony script lettering, would grace the table every year – with or without the requisite salt, pepper, for which they were created. Made in Japan.
Below, track from the ultimate 1960s Christmas album.
Ray Conniff: Twelve Days of Christmas
‘These things are becoming harder to find these days and I wish to have a record of their fine existence.’
Photographs from Sam Platz’s Pay Phone Tribute Album (on Facebook).
‘next door to Cricket’s Cafe off Auburn Blvd . . . in Citrus Heights, CA’
Photograph by Ian Webb.
‘This film was made by his company as a presentation to AT&T executives. It would have extended to be shown to the public, but a number of his ideas in the film were not ultimately adopted, like his phone booth designs, and men’s and women’s uniforms.’
Complete pitch by the master. It’s everything anyone ever wanted to know about how good logos and visual identity systems work. From 1969. Historical details here.
Found via Scott Stowell
‘Watch the definitive documentary on the husband-wife design icons’
A new biography on Charles and Ray Eames is airing on PBS this week. Powerful and unflinching, more than just chairs. Playful optimism, powerful clients, amazing budgets, odd obsessions. Narrated by James Franco, titles feature the incredible Eames fonts.
Watch it online here.
Above, the IBM Pavilion at the 1964 Worlds Fair.
Below, Eames’ complete short film The Information Machine. Commissioned in 1958 by IBM, it was designed to get a fearful population to trust this perceived-dangerous, unknown mechanical variable: Computers!
‘from Alphabets 1964, edited by R. S. Hutchings’
Image found by the great Steve Matteson – who was recently interviewed by Mashable.
The work of China-based Raydesign.
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