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Vancouver vintage typographic ads

Jaleen Grove — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:40:04 +0000

The City of Vancouver – home to the Olympic Winter Games as of right now – is only a little over 100 years old. It never had a lot in the way of local printing and publishing, but some of the local businesses’ ads that ran in local directories have been posted by the City Archives. It’s a treat to see the old fonts, and the selection of businesses really tells us something about the state of the city a century ago: meat globules, fish, coal, tents, and “disappearing furniture”!

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Tags: Design, Typography, Vancouver, vintage advertising

Minimalist Star Wars travel posters

John Martz — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:25:56 +0000

Love: minimalist Star Wars travel posters by Justin van Genderen.

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Tags: Design, Justin van Genderen, star wars

The Best Custom Lettering of 2009

John Martz — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:44:50 +0000

LetterCult offers up an exhaustive 15-page post detailing the best custom lettering of 2009. It’s the first part in a series of posts that will narrow down the list to a top ten, an interview with their person of the year, and finally, something they’re calling AlphaBattle, which looks interesting.

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Tags: calligraphy, Design, lettering, Typography

Saul Bass: I want to make beautiful things

John Martz — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:53:40 +0000

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Tags: Creative Thinking, Design, inspiration, saul bass, video

Donald Ely

Luc Latulippe — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:16:25 +0000

If you’re from Baltimore, MD, you’ll recognize Donald Ely’s work immediately from his work in Baltimore Magazine. I love it all, not least of which his electric colour palette.

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Tags: Baltimore, Design, Illustration

LOST Posters by Ty Mattson

Ward Jenkins — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 06:57:39 +0000

Don’t know about you, but I’m excited about the new season premiere of LOST coming up (Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 9PM EST, in case you didn’t know). Designer Ty Mattson of Mattson Creative can’t wait either. In fact, while designing an invite to the premiere at his home, he came up with several cool retro-style poster designs. I’d love to see some of these available as actual printed posters.

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Tags: Design, Lost, poster design, posters, TV, Ty Mattson

The most relevant identity work of the decade

John Martz — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:51:26 +0000

Brand New offers up a look at the most relevant identity work of the decade. Not simply a best-of list, this look at the last ten years of corporate branding includes the good, the bad, and the ugly. I’m looking at you, Pepsi.

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Tags: branding, Design, logos

Letterheady – The blog for interesting letterheads

Matt Forsythe — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:25:30 +0000

Yes. Please. Thank you. Letterheady is a blog for interesting letterheads. Star Wars. Albert Einstein. Winston Churchill. More.

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Tags: Design, letterheads, stationery

Matthew Lyons’s movie titles

John Martz — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:21:23 +0000

Loving these fake screengrabs of fake movie titles from illustrator Matthew Lyons. I wish they were all real movies.

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Tags: Design, film titles, Illustration, Matthew Lyons, movies

Retro logos and illustration

John Martz — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 05:26:48 +0000

Searching for some retro logo inspiration, I stumbled upon Depression Press’s Flickr stream, which has retro logos in spades along with other old printed goodies, including plenty of illustration:

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Tags: Design, ephemera, logos, retro