Philately Fridays: Switzerland, 1972
Friday, March 5th, 2010
A stamp commemorating the 125th anniversary of the Swiss railway. If you feel so inclined, you can read more about the Swiss railway here.
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A stamp commemorating the 125th anniversary of the Swiss railway. If you feel so inclined, you can read more about the Swiss railway here.
LOGO WARS VII
Thursday, March 4th, 2010
This time we're putting the Canada Broadcasting Corporation sunburst up against the Nuclear Pacific Inc of Seattle radioactive burst!
CBC
Nuclear Pacific
FIGHT!
Letraset Type Samples
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Extra tough typography from German designer Christof Gassner for a Letraset type sample catalogue, circa 1980.
Organ Lecture Recital poster
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
This poster was designed by Dietmar R. Winkler for MIT's combination lecture series and organ recitals circa 1966. Heavy geometry in effect.
Philately Fridays: Venezuela 1975
Friday, February 19th, 2010This stamp commemorates the 200th anniversary of Universidad Central de Venezuela. Still not 100% sure what the geometric design is supposed to represent. Any ideas?
Philately Fridays: Uruguay, 1971-74
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010Here are four stamps from Uruguay, one from each year between 1971 and 1974. Enjoy!
Related: Philately Friday: Uruguay, 1977
Philately Fridays: Bulgaria, 1988
Friday, February 5th, 2010Stefan Kanchev: King of what? King of styyyyyyyyyyyyle.
More from the man:
6 stamp set from 1982
Dove-haired woman stamp from 1980
Eagles of Health Metal
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
Love this logo for the US Department of Health, designed by Edmond Sullivan.
OPP: Jeremy Pettis gives us Tony Di Spigna!
Thursday, January 28th, 2010
Longtime Pileup reader Jeremy Pettis sent in these great examples of work from world class typographer Tony Di Spigna. Coming up in the 1970s working with Tom Carnase and Herb Lubalin, Di Spigna eventually started his own studio, Tony Di Spigna, Inc.
Here's a great pull-quote from the article...
"[Di Spigna] is amused by some clients who try to employ him on a sort of 'piecework' basis. If they have paid a certain price for, say, a four-word headline and they alter commission him to produce a two-word logo they will sometimes say 'But Tony, shouldn't it be half the price? After all, it's only two words.'
'These people miss the point,' says Di Spigna 'it's not the amount of words I'm charging for, it's the complete image.'"
Don't miss: Tony's zipper alphabet
The Shit is…
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010My man Blaine Rucker brought the ruckus right to my inbox with this one. No info on this one, so just sit back and enjoy it for what it is. Then go check out Blaine's collection of amusing and bizarro images at The Oro24K Tumblr.
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