Leaf shadows falling on a blind in late afternoon.
Thursday, 10 June 2010
Forest
Spotted on a sheet metal door. Is it corrosion or is it an etched photograph of a forest? I don't know.
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Environment
Hitchcock titling font
Intriguing titling face from Hitchcock's 1938 'The Lady Vanishes'. Look at that Art Deco lower case 'g'!
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Typography
More found type
1970's Islington housing estate signage uses this bonded type, which loosens over time and produces these marvelous effects.
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signage,
Typography
Friday, 3 July 2009
Munich Olympic stamps


Three examples of stamp sets commemorating the1972 Olympic games: an Australian set produced for the summer games at Munich; one from the USA for the same games; and a German set publicising the subsequent winter games at Sapporo in Japan.The pictogram used on the USA stamp is part of Otl Aicher's famous set, but I don't recognise the ones used on the Australian stamps. They appear to be half-way between the 1964 Tokyo pictograms and Aicher's work, but I don't have information about the designers of any of these sets, and would be glad to find out if anybody does know.
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1970s,
modernism,
Otl Aicher,
stamps
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