entries Tagged as [graphic design]

Simmons, Geffen

‘I imagine we are all, like cassettes, thoughts wrapped up in awkward packaging’

The cassette tape art of Erika Iris Simmons. Above, Israli recording artist Aviv Geffen.


Aviv Geffen: The One

Vintage Hanes

Unopened stock from a long-ago closed department store.

Shirt and underwear, but no pants.

Who needs pants anyway?

Clairol True-To-Light VII

Control panel from my mother’s Clairol ‘True-To-Light’ makeup mirror.

Still in daily use after all these years. Here’s the original, original commercial.

Head Like a Kite redux

From my intermediate typography course: Student Allie Olcese’s experimental redesign of CD packaging for Head Like a Kite’s Random Portraits of the Home Movie.

Interpretative imagery veers from found photography, illustration, finger paints to hypodermic needles, gummy worms and tin foil – rendered in subdued, faded colors.

The final piece is housed in a wire-bound album, accented with carefully set 1970s-style shareware type.

Chandler in Oz

‘inspiring homes with heart’

Magazines are great sources for inspiration. Not as permanent as a logo – or brand – periodicals have a timer on them. After a few months, they’re gone.

A good newsstand is a treasure trove of the experimental, conservative, international, concise, good, bad, ugly. I drop by whatever I can find – even the Barney Noble chain if one is not nearby – just for a shot in the arm.

Earlier this year I spotted Chandler 42 being used in an Australian interiors pub. Alexendria-based Inside Out is using my typewriter type as a nice accent throughout their pages.

Here’s a few snaps (taken in my new home office – sleepy dog in background).

Blue IBM

1952 IBM electric typewriter. History here.

Found via Jon Williamson

Muller-Brockmann

Ad for Hermes typewriters, designed by Josef Müller-Brockmann, 1950.

Müller-Brockmann video homage here.

Found via Josef Muller-Brockmann: Pioneer of Swiss Graphic Design

Mercedes typewriter

Mercedes Schreibmaschine poster by Ernst Dryden, 1911.

Found via Divinely Elegant: The World of Ernst Dryden

‘Safety Matches, Made in Japan’

Vintage western-influenced Japanese matchbox cover.

Article here.

Money: ‘This is your god’

Video for N.A.S.A.’s Money. Feat. David Byrne, Chuck D, Ras Congo, Seu Jorge, Z-Trip and the work of Shepard Fairey.

A set of Russian avant garde books

More here.

Found via Mr. Mule’s


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