‘It all started with a screen printing kit from an art store and a dingy asbestos filled basement’
I first ran into Laura Edmisten at a DIY thing a few years back. She had just started silkscreening notecards and other ephemera. Today she’s conquered the local band scene and expanding outward (her business, not her). She does super cool, limited run screened cards, notebooks, tote bags. And posters. With more to come.
Check out her Etsy store here. Website here. MySpace here.
While I’m in the mood, might as well post Daniel Kleinman’s titles for Casino Royale (2006). Video above, article here.
I’m going gaga over the Poker Neutra Face video (above).
Neutraface in use in the Quantum of Solace (2008) logo (below).
The Neutraface fonts are a product of House Industries.
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Collection: Urban Landscape; Location: Columbus, Ohio
More than just another image collection, HistoricType plans to be an online research library for students, professionals and scholars – concentrating on non-print typography, lettering used for old signs and buildings throughout the US.
Visit the HistoricType website here. Blog here.
HistoricType is edited by Laura Franz and Anna Dempsey; programmed by Randy Apuzzo/Jetscram Design and funded thru a grant from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
Collection: Downtown, USA; Location: Grafton, West Virginia
Found via Justin Nelson
Charles S. Anderson Design’s promotional materials for French Paper are legendary. Snag some of the posters here.
The rarities are not cheap though, the Seinfeld final episode commemorative (above) goes for $500.
The NBC Mystery Movie was a 1970s anthology series showcasing different crime dramas. Like Law & Order, but different. They had the coolest intro with theme music by Henry Mancini.
Memorable, local commercial spots from long ago.
Dubious video/sound quality. But that’s how I remember them. Denevi’s locations (above), as jingle, just stuck in one’s head like . . . paste.
The story of Maurice “Ed” Barbara (above) actually ended up on NBC’s Unsolved Mysteries, fall 1989.
No matter what one would buy at Steven Matthew David’s ‘Top-of-the-Hill-Daily-City’ electronics store, one would get a free bike. Not sure why, but hell, it was a FREE BIKE.
Paul was The Master of the Shit-Eating Grin.
Pete Ellis knew van conversions had something to do with sex. He also knew one would remember his address if children sang it. This video is the So Cal version of the commercial, the Nor Cal jingle simply had a different sing-along address (which we all knew): ‘1095 West El Camino Real, Sunny-Vale.’
Drive Ins always had double features and Sacramento’s six screen is still open (Facebook group here). Also projecting is the local Movies on a Big Screen.
For intermission: Commercials, community service ads and countdown animations used to remind everyone to be back in their car in time for the second film. Here’s a bunch.
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Check out my Burlingame Drive In prints, cards and postcards.
For the record, I did propose to my wife at the (now gone) chilly Burlingame between Nine Months and Clueless.
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