Thursday, 10 June 2010

Leaf shadows







Leaf shadows falling on a blind in late afternoon.

Forest






Spotted on a sheet metal door. Is it corrosion or is it an etched photograph of a forest? I don't know.

Found lino pattern





Excellent colourway and pattern on this piece of discarded lino.

Hitchcock titling font








Intriguing titling face from Hitchcock's 1938 'The Lady Vanishes'. Look at that Art Deco lower case 'g'!

More found type




1970's Islington housing estate signage uses this bonded type, which loosens over time and produces these marvelous effects.

Car Park type

















































Found on a rooftop car park: this pleasingly weathered numeral type.

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.