entries Tagged as [Swiss International Style]
Pay Phoned 2
‘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).
Pay Phoned 1
‘next door to Cricket’s Cafe off Auburn Blvd . . . in Citrus Heights, CA’
Photograph by Ian Webb.
‘Saul Bass pitches the new Bell System logo’
‘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
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.
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
‘Diktor’
‘The ‘ella’ on Barbarella was probably suggested by Feiffer’s Passionella, a brilliant satire on the Cinderella theme and much of American culture.’
In 1966, French scifi comic Barbarella was published in a the US in a translated edition.
Minimal color, racy stories. Robot sex.
The original, a serialized comic strip, was created in 1962 by Jean-Claude Forest for V magazine. [Read more →]
Street meat
‘The sneakers, a pair of Nike Air Force Ones are called ‘Haute Charcuterie”
Meat shoes designed by Swiss design firm BlackYard, presented at Art Clash 2009. More info here.
Found via Modern Urban Style
‘Fuck The System’
Just my mindset this morning.
Set in Alte Hass Grotesk, a free font based on the ‘cold type’ version of Helvetica. Download here.
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