Blog: August 2012

From the reference box #129


#129 - Canadian travel booklet circa late 50's early 60's, from The Canadian Government Travel Bureau. I bought this at the weekend with loads of other travel information and maps from the 50's and 60's. They had belonged to a very well travelled gentleman who had kept everything from each trip (maps, tickets, travel documents, guides, menus). Unfortunately I was beaten to the stack of plane and cruise ship menus and I fought my urge to snatch them and run!

I'll post them all over the next few weeks, but for starters here are some of the gorgeous illustrations throughout this guide. There's no illustration or design credit which is a shame and an internet search has drawn a blank, so if you do know who the illustrator is, please let me know.



There are lots more vintage goodies in our reference box, have a rifle though them here.

Wed 29 Aug 2012

Posted under: Design , Ephemera , Reference box , Illustration

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Is It Okay To Talk About The Olympics Branding Now?

There's a great post over on Sell! Sell! looking back at the London 2012 Olympic branding as a kind of de-brief and I have to say I agree with them whole heartedly. (And yes, this is a lame excuse to post Lance Wyman's wonderful Mexico'68 Olympic branding - but it's always nice to see it!)

Fri 24 Aug 2012

Posted under: Design

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Kraków Poster Gallery


Czwarta Pani Anderson, Andrzej Krajewski, 1973

Ryan over at Sell! Sell! sent me a great link yesterday to the Galeria Plakatu Kraków (Kraków Poster Gallery). I've always been a fan of Polish circus posters (CYRK) especially the Hubert Hilscher ones and was asking Ryan if he had seen any on his recent visit to Kraków.

The gallery is apparently very small, but stacked to the rafters with film, theatre, political, music and circus posters from the 50's right up to the late 80's - the golden era of the Polish School of Posters, "the Polish Government financially supported and encouraged poster art. Posters became the primary art form of the nation. The art of Polish posters attained international fame, becoming established as the best in contemporary/vintage poster art".

CYRK (koń), Jan Młodożeniec, 1972

CYRK (kot-tygrys), Hubert Hilscher, 1980
Niewinni Czarodzieje, Wojciech Fangor, 1960

Babie Lato, Jacek Neugebauer, 1974

Luckily for those of us not visiting Poland in the near future, they have an equally fully stocked online shop with very reasonable prices. Above are a selection of my favourites.

All images copyright Galeria Plakatu Kraków.
Quote from Contemporary Posters.

Tue 14 Aug 2012

Posted under: Design , Things to buy , Illustration , Posters

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Auto Type XXIII












It's that time of year, the last few weekends have been car show-tastic so we have lots of new Auto Type to post up. Here's the first batch - mainly American with a couple of British classics thrown in for good measure!

Check out the full collection here and here.

Thu 09 Aug 2012

Posted under: Design , Typography , automobilia , lettering

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Bauhaus: Art as Life

© László Moholy-Nagy, Prospectus cover for14 Bauhausbücher (14 Bauhaus Books), 1928. Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau. © Hattula Moholy-Nagy/DACS 2012


© Erich Consemüller, Lis Beyer or Ise Gropius sitting on the B3 club chair by Marcel Breuer and wearing a mask by Oskar Schlemmer and dress fabric by Beyer, c.1927. Herzogenrath, Berlin. © Estate Erich Consemüller


 © Walter Gropius, Graph of the educational curriculum at the Bauhaus, 1923. Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin. © DACS 2012


© Josef Albers, Set of four stacking tables, c.1927. © The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation/Artists Rights Society, New York and DACS, London 2012

This Sunday is the last day you can catch the wonderful Bauhaus: Art as Life at The Barbican. The largest exhibition in the UK for 40 years documenting the iconic Bauhaus art school and it's post WW1 vision.

Bauhaus: Art as Life "explores the diverse artistic production that made up it's turbulent fourteen-year history and delves into the subjects at the heart of the school: art, culture, life, politics and society, and the changing technology of the age".

If you can't get down to see it don't panic, the exhibition catalogue is fantastic and available to buy here along with some beautiful Bauhaus designed goodies. But if you do visit, be sure to check out our letter-pressed greetings cards in the shop! 

Tue 07 Aug 2012

Posted under: Design , Art , Inspiration , Exhibition

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Help Save The Dover Bookshop


The Dover Bookshop needs our help! Every designer I know has used a Dover book at some point and their amazingly resourceful books grace the shelves of many a swanky design studio, yet they're in trouble and need the support of the design community to keep going.

For those who aren't familiar with The Dover Bookshop, shame on you! Long before you could drag reference images off the internet, The Dover Bookshop was a wealth of copyright and permission-free imagery and a huge source of inspiration.

They've been selling their range of pictorial archive books in Covent Garden for 25 years, but are struggling to survive the recession. Please buy even just one book from here to help keep this wonderful institution around for another 25 years!

Image copyright The Dover Bookshop.

Fri 03 Aug 2012

Posted under: Design , Things to buy , Inspiration , Books

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Vintage Racing Posters


It's all about the posters today! This little bunch are my personal favourites from Historic Car Art's massive selection of original, vintage racing posters.

The bold colours and simple designs do it for me, now if only I had more wall space...
Images copyright Historic Car Art.

Wed 01 Aug 2012

Posted under: Design , Ephemera , Things to buy , Posters

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Zodiac Posters



Remember these beauties we posted about a while back - 1969 Zodiac posters by Gerry and Joe Simboli?

Well Pedlars have Capricorn, Cancer, Scorpio, Libra and Virgo available in their sale with 50% off! Such great posters, I'm very tempted.

Wed 01 Aug 2012

Posted under: Design , Things to buy , Illustration , Posters

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