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
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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).
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.
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