Archive for the 'Old Skool' Category

1-2-2012

Aaaah, Dieter

Wish I could see this exhibit. Installation view of Less and More: the Design Ethos of Dieter Rams on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Via Domus.

12-12-2011

Bond Illustrations

Michael Gillette did these killer illustrations for a new series of James Bond books for Penguin, and has just started selling limited-edition prints of them.

11-29-2011

Skateboard Color Study

Skateboards by Penny Skateboards. Via Fab.    

10-28-2011

Reinhold Visuals Graphic design educational posters, c.1968

Found these on Etsy, and if I had a couple grand I’d buy them all. The info states these are from a graphic poster series used as teaching aids in art and graphic design education/ Screen-printed on heavy cardstock, with descriptive text on reverse. Originally published in 1968, though these are apparently a later (1975) [...]

9-30-2011

Australian Milk Packaging from the 80s

Wow. (Via Wanken.)

6-28-2011

Ilford Packaging

Via Acejet 170.

4-17-2011

Jurriaan Schrofer

Via But Does it Float.        

4-13-2011

Posters inspired by Wim Crouwel

Unit Editions did this cool series of posters by 7 different designers, in honor of the big Wim Crouwel exhibition at the Design Museum in London. According to Unit: “The designers were commissioned to submit a poster based on the dimensions and grid of the legendary original Stedelijk Museum posters, as created by Crouwel during [...]

4-9-2011

Record Covers

Some gems I’ve picked up over the last few months.

3-27-2011

International Poster Fair

Yesterday at the Chicago Cultural Center.