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Cocina Mexicana

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Last November, I posted some images from a book called BOOZE - a book of drink recipes featuring some super groovy illustrations. Just last week, Pileup reader and frequent image contributor Jeremy Pettis hipped me to a similar-looking book of Mexican recipes called Cocina Mexicana. After seeing a few of the page images, I realized the book was indeed written and illustrated by the Booze crew! (author June Dutton, illustrators Ann & Bruce Butte) I tracked down a copy and am very excited to share these samples from Cocina Mexicana.

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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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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!

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Letraset Type Samples

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

Extra tough typography from German designer Christof Gassner for a Letraset type sample catalogue, circa 1980.

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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.

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Philately Fridays: Venezuela 1975

Friday, February 19th, 2010

This stamp commemorates the 200th anniversary of Universidad Central de Venezuela. Still not 100% sure what the geometric design is supposed to represent. Any ideas?

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Philately Fridays: Uruguay, 1971-74

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

Here are four stamps from Uruguay, one from each year between 1971 and 1974. Enjoy!

Related: Philately Friday: Uruguay, 1977

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Philately Fridays: Bulgaria, 1988

Friday, February 5th, 2010

Stefan Kanchev: King of what? King of styyyyyyyyyyyyle.

More from the man:
6 stamp set from 1982
Dove-haired woman stamp from 1980

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Eagles of Health Metal

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Love this logo for the US Department of Health, designed by Edmond Sullivan.

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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.'"