Peter Hofstatter: Psychologie
This book cover has all I need, big letters and dagger shaped fishies.
Also worth checking:
- Olle Eksell Site & Shop
- This Is Forest — Joel Speasmaker
- MVM — Magnus Voll Mathiasson
- Art School Cliche Spotting
- Posters Discovered in Notting Hill Gate Tube Station
- Vinyl Documentary: To Have & To Hold
- Partisan Memorials in Former Yugoslavia
- Up in the Air- Opening sequence
- Geoff Mcfetridge: Where the Wild Things Are Title Design
- Nikkatsu – Japanese actions films
Design Coordination and Corporate Image – FHK Henrion
Design Coordination and corporate image – FHK Henrion + Alan Parkin c1967
This is an excellent book on the subject of corporate identity. All the big design guns are in here. The best part, for each case study the designer explains the problems he encountered and his thoughts behind the design etc.
Vintage Brazilian map
Brasil Mapa Geral – from 1969
I picked this up a couple of years ago and I flipped when I saw this cover. This puts to shame my US Texaco maps. Unfortunately, the map part is missing. All I have is the cover and a few bits of text that were inside. What secrets did that map hold? I bet it was a treasure map that led to a top secret cave filled with barrels of almond milk. Dang, I love that stuff.
Can anyone translate the text on the cover?
Also worth checking:
Lettered: Typefaces and Alphabets by Clotilde Olyff
Lettered: Clotilde Olyff by Jan Middendorp – published by Druk Editions 2000
Clotilde Olyff is a Belgian designer and typographer who teaches at the National Visual Art School of La Cambre and Art School’75’ in Brussels. In this book by Jan Middendorp, Clotilde shares her investigations into the essence of the letter. The book is filled with typographical games and experiments.
The Pebble Alphabets: I’m amazed by her collection of letter shaped pebbles. Next time your at the beach look under your feet, you might be standing on the letter “M”.
A lil somethin’ for the players
Theatre arts at Western Illinois University Summer 1968
Yep, thats right I’m breaking out the vintage drama club dorkery.
Modern Vintage Stamps from Norway – First Day Cover 1966
First day cover for Norway 1966 – Feat Sam Eyde 1866/1940 stamp and Kristian Birkeland 1867/1917 stamp.
Beautiful set of stamps dedicated to the Norwegian engineer Samuel Eyde and the scientist Kristian Olaf Birkeland. My copy (above) has a postmark on it, so I tracked down another version without the post mark at the excellent Postimerkki.
also worth checking:
vintage modern stamps from Israel
Vintage Electronics and Music Concrete booklet
Nieuwe Muziek – Concrete en elektonische muziek by Gerard de Wit c1968
Great cover photo of a dutch recording studio from the 1960s. Check out all the vintage analog recording equipment! So many buttons, switches, knobs, reel to reels and dials. If your into 60s computer interfaces, tape machines and old mixing boards, I highly recommend you check out Stewf’s amazing Control Panel Flickr group.
Mucho thanks to Chris at Groove Merchant for hooking me up with the booklet.
Children’s pop up book – The Jungle Race
The Jungle Race – c 1967- Published by Bancroft & Co.
Super cool children’s book from Czech illustrators G. Seda and J. Pavlin. One of many pop up books the duo illustrated during the 1960s and 70s.
The short version of this story is: a lion, an elephant and and a giraffe try to put together a race and find out that their friends are totally lame. Their loser friends include trendy Zebra fashions snobs, snorkeling hippos and an antelope that likes to get tossed in the air by a gaggle of monkeys.
Ken Garland: art editor for Design Magazine
Design Magazine June 1961
Ken Garland served as art editor for UK based Design Magazine for six years. This is just one of many amazing covers that was conceived during his tenure.
also worth checking:
Giovanni Pintori : exhibition catalog of design for Olivetti
Giovanni Pintori exhibition catalog c2003
Giovanni Pintori won a scholarship in 1930 (at the age of 18) to study at the ISIA in Monza under design heavyweights like Marcello Nizzoli and Edoardo Persico. After graduation he was invited to work for Olivetti in the Development & Advertising Office located in Milan. Three years later he would become the head of the department. Over the next 27 years he created an impressive body of work for Olivetti that would earn him a lasting international reputation.
This book was made in conjunction with a 2003 exhibition that highlighted many of Pintori’s designs for Olivetti.
