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50 historical film titles

‘A shout-out to those who bring us the movie before the movie’

From LA Times magazine. Go here.

Part of their 50 series.

Found via Campbell BrownKorbel

Tags: cool finds, design history by steve
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Alphabet Truck by Tabuchi

Since Sacramento is a hub for some of California’s major freeways (5, 80, 99), there’s a lot of local truck traffic.

And there’s always some interesting typography to go with them. Yellow is one of my favorites, because it’s not actually yellow. It’s orange.

I also enjoy the typography and colors of the Werner line.

And I do miss the iconic fruit covered Raley’s trucks – no longer seen around town. Artwork by the great Don Birrell of historical Vacaville Nut Tree fame.

On a related note, here’s images from Paris-based photographer Eric Tabuchi’s Alphabet Truck series (above) volume one and volume two.

Found via Splorp

Tags: cool finds, photography, typography by steve
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So you need a typeface

Picking fonts, not the easiest thing to do. But design student Julian Hansen has created a poster that kinda breaks it down into easy solutions.

Click the above image for a full size version.

Are there really easy solutions?

Swiss design uberguru Massimo Vignelli believes so. Here’s I Love Typography’s take on The Vignelli Twelve.

Found via Typekit

Tags: cool finds, education, fonts, thoughts, typography by steve
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‘A letter mosaic of a japanese idol’

The photomosiac work of Charis Tsevis.

Click image for larger view/jump.

Tags: cool finds, design, photography, typography by steve
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Superimposed into the 60s

‘Brooklyn Industries has launched its Summer 2010 campaign featuring lively super imposed photography with nostalgic imagery from the 1960s. The campaign features our employees!’

Love the dimension on these! More here.

Tags: cool finds, design, fashion, photography by steve
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Vintage scifi posters from around the world

Great collection posted at Monsieur Bandit.

Found via Oded Ezer

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TRIO was a brilliantly odd cable network that sort of ended up being shuffled about and sort of vanished from tee vee in an acquisition by NBC that included similar net Bravo and a bunch of other things. That’s the short way to put it. In all, NBC ended up channeling its money and energy into Bravo.

Some of TRIO’s wares included Brilliant But Canceled, re-airings of great television programs that were too smart for their own good. Today, TRIO lives as a web archive (with a link back to Bravo, of course) – and Brilliant But Canceled is now a web blog.

In all this, Scott Stowell‘s open designed the look of the network, with design studio No.17 creating the logo; filmmaker Chris Wilcha and music supervisors Agoraphone along for the ride.

Official TRIO page here. Open’s portfolio (with videos) here. AIGA TRIO design article here.

They were brilliant, tho canceled.

Tags: cool finds, design, design history by steve
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A couple of Saul Bass mashups

Star Wars vs. Saul Bass (2007)

Star Wars vs. Saul Bass (above) is described as ‘If Star Wars was filmed two decades earlier and Saul Bass did the opening title sequence, it ‘might’ look like this.’ The animation was created as part of a school project.

A more recent mashup is Tron vs. Saul Bass (below).

Tron vs. Saul Bass (2009)