The Flavor

Clean Sans Typefaces

admin — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:24:02 +0000

Been doing a lotta logos lately and I am struggling to resist the urge to use Avenir all the time, and can’t bring myself to use Gotham. So, I’ve been looking for alternatives. Here are a few.

Gibson:

Samo Sans:

Interval:

Phi:

Centrale Sans:

Recta:

Kyrial Sans:

Due:

Sofia Pro:

Circe:

Heinemann:

These might be a little stylized for most applications, but could work be useful:

Sweet Sans:

Pluto:

And here are a couple that might be good when I’m also considering DIN:

Knight Sans:

Argumentum:

Diwa:

Bulgarian Posters

admin — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:59:45 +0000

From a sale at Fab.com, these posters were designed “between WWII and the late ‘80s” during “the last decades of communist Bulgaria.” Click to see them big.

Computer Brochures, 50s–70s

admin — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 02:33:14 +0000

Just a few from the many online at The Computer History Museum—as PDFs no less!—in their special area full of marketing brochures. (Via Coudal)

And I just couldn’t resist. I rasterized a bunch of the covers to use for my desktop background. I made a bunch, so I figured I’d share them with all the other nerds out there. Below is a preview of what’s in the zip.

Download the zip of all desktops (10MB).

NASA Brand Guidelines

admin — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:42:30 +0000

Via Blair Thompson.

Chromeography

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:48:25 +0000

A thoroughly random selection from this awesome Tumblog.

Aaaah, Dieter

admin — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:21:50 +0000

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.

Bond Illustrations

admin — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:02:57 +0000

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.

Skateboard Color Study

admin — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:30:21 +0000

Skateboards by Penny Skateboards. Via Fab.

Atelier Olchinsky

admin — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 15:51:12 +0000

Their city illustrations are incredible.

And they sell prints of them, too.

Via ffffound.

Reinhold Visuals Graphic design educational posters, c.1968

admin — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:05:24 +0000

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) edition.

A. Richard DeNatale

Bridget Riley

Ray K. Metzker

Rob Roy Kelly

Ned Harris

Aldo Tambellini

Hans Haacke

Masao Komura

Arnold Saks

Aldo Tambellini

Arnold Saks and James Ward

Wolfgang Schmitt

Albert Markarian

Josef Albers

“Computer print-out (the intensity of a magnetic field distributed over a thin sheet of super-conducting material), produced at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York. Courtesy The IBM Corporation.”